Show HN: Forcefield: A fast, lightweight local-first AI agent harness

Category: ai-ml

Tags: ai-agent, local-first, cli, go, llm

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Forcefield is a local-first CLI harness for running AI agents, providing a runtime with tools, skills, sessions, memory, and permission handling as a single Go binary. It supports both local models (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp) and remote providers without requiring accounts or telemetry, offering an alternative to cloud-based agent frameworks.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, AI engineers

Repository: https://github.com/fabledruns/forcefield · Go · Apache-2.0 · 3 stars

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