@codingthirty: I learned how to build MCPs from @kentcdodds, and it's a gift that keeps on giving. I built a local-first knowledge bas…

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Developer shares experience building a local-first knowledge base using MCPs, Strapi, TanStack, and Ollama with Gemma 4, noting easy switch to frontier models like Claude.

I learned how to build MCPs from @kentcdodds, and it's a gift that keeps on giving. I built a local-first knowledge base using @strapijs, @tan_stack, and @ollama with Gemma 4. But if you need to use a frontier model like Claude for more power, just expose your tools and

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I learned how to build MCPs from @kentcdodds, and it’s a gift that keeps on giving. I built a local-first knowledge base using @strapijs, @tan_stack, and @ollama with Gemma 4. But if you need to use a frontier model like Claude for more power, just expose your tools and

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