Building a Minimalist Local Agent Stack: SearxNG Search and Reasoning Budget Control
use_your_imagination · reddit · 2026-08-12
The author shares a minimalist local agent workflow built on pi.dev and llama.cpp, open-sourcing the toolset agent-stash.
- net-search: A lightweight CLI wrapper around a self-hosted SearxNG instance. It allows agents to discover available engines and perform web searches, working well with local models like Qwen for parallel agents.
- llama.cpp extension: Designed for pi.dev, it maps thinking levels to llama.cpp reasoning budgets. It also supports in-flight control (like pressing ctrl+e to end reasoning early) and configures the correct chat templates for models like DeepSeek.
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