I made a local-first MCP tutorial repo with node-llama-cpp and a custom agent loop
Summary
A tutorial repo that teaches the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by building it step by step in Node.js, with a local-first setup using node-llama-cpp, GGUF models, and a custom agent loop.
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