Running a Local AI Engineering Agent with deepstrain: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

If you've ever wanted an AI agent that can read your codebase, run git commands, and execute bash scripts—all without sending a single byte to the cloud—deepstrain is worth a look. It's a local agent runner that connects to any OpenAI-compatible LLM (Ollama, LM Studio, GPT-4o, Claude) and gives you 52 built-in tools. The key difference from other agents: it plans first, then acts. You see the step-by-step reasoning before any tool runs. Here's how to get it running in five minutes. 1....