Agent Mini: a minimal, local-first AI agent you can actually read, understand, and extend. [P]

Reddit r/MachineLearning 07/28/26, 03:03 PM Tools

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Summary

Agent Mini is a minimal, open-source AI agent written in ~3k lines of Python that prioritizes readability and local-first operation using Ollama, offering practical tools while avoiding heavy frameworks.

It is about ~3k lines of Python, uses Ollama by default, and ships with practical tools for shell, files, web search, memory, and vision. No LangChain. No LiteLLM. No big framework stack. Just asyncio, httpx, and a small ReAct loop tuned for local/smaller models. An agent that feels useful without becoming a black box. Didn't wanted to dig through framework abstractions to figure out how agents actually work, so built one small enough to read in an afternoon, but practical enough to use for real tasks. GitHub: https://github.com/mohsinkaleem/agent-mini PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/agent-mini/ pip install agent-mini agent-mini init agent-mini chat Would love feedback from anyone experimenting with local agents.

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