TrueForge: An Open-Source Answer to Vendor Lock-In in Managed Agents

Managed agent platforms solve a real problem — nobody wants to hand-build streaming, sandboxing, tool orchestration, and session state from scratch every time they want an AI agent to do real work. But that convenience has historically come with a catch …

A practical walkthrough of setting up a local AI development environment on Ubuntu — covering llama.cpp installation via Homebrew, running local LLMs with LangChain, fixing common Slack conflicts, Git branch management, and JupyterLab. Hard-won lessons from real terminal errors.

Installing llama.cpp via Homebrew on Ubuntu

Homebrew on Linux — Homebrew …