From Cloud to Laptop: Running MCP Agents with...

Large Models Build Systems. Small Models Run Them. For most developers, modern AI systems feel locked behind massive infrastructure. We’ve been conditioned to believe that “Intelligence” is a service we rent from a data center—a luxury that requires GPU clusters, $10,000 hardware, and ever-climbing cloud inference bills. Last week, when we built our Multi-Agent Forensic Team, you likely assumed that coordinating a Supervisor, a Librarian, and an Analyst required the reasoning horsepower of a 400