- prerequisites
- Intermediate command line • Basic Docker and Docker Model Runner • Basic Node.js and npm • Basic JSON and HTML
- skills learned
- Serve an OpenAI-compatible API from a local model • install and configure the pi agent • agentic search over live documents • generate and fact-check a web page with an agent
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Socratic liveProjects pair you with an AI tutor to help you learn by doing, in real time.
In this liveProject, you’ll help your company’s local-AI rollout by moving beyond chatbots and putting your private AI model to work as an agent. You’ll connect the open-source coding agent pi to the local Gemma 4 model from the previous project through Docker Model Runner’s inference API. You’ll then use the agent for two practical tasks: researching a folder of company documents and answering questions with citations to its sources, and generating a self-contained web page based on the same documents. Along the way, you’ll see how local models can support autonomous research and coding while keeping company data on-premises.
This project is a part of the series Open LLMs on Your Own Computer.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
prerequisites
This liveProject is for developers and IT professionals who want to create and manage local AI agents that work with proprietary documents. To begin this liveProject, you will need to know the following:
TOOLS- Basics of Node.js and npm
- Basics of Docker Model Runner
- Basics of Python 3
- Basics of JSON
- Basics of HTML
- Basics of LLMs and agents
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- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
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- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
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- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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Agentic Apps With the Local AI project for free
