Cognitive Sharding Runs Computer-Use Agents on 16GB Consumer Hardware

Developer alichherawalla open-sourced Cognitive Sharding, an architecture that splits planning, UI understanding, action selection and error recovery across three specialized small models. The approach enables computer-use agents to run locally on 16GB consumer-grade machines.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 2 related posts

• Cognitive Sharding: running a full local computer-use agent on a 16GB consumer PC with three small specialist models — alichherawalla · 2026-09-25
• Cognitive Sharding: computer-use agents running locally on 16GB via specialist models — alichherawalla · 2026-09-25