An AI agent for your home lab

The home lab is the ideal home

A home lab has always-on hardware and a pile of small maintenance jobs. An agent fits there better than on a laptop that sleeps.

A Pi is enough

A Raspberry Pi 4 or newer runs the daemon comfortably. The sysinfo, shell, and notify tools turn it into a watchdog that reports CPU, memory, and disk.

Set up a watchdog

1. Install the agent on the Pi.
2. Log in and start it as a service.
3. Schedule a cron job that checks disks every morning.
4. Let it notify you when a volume drops under 15% free.

Cheap to run

With Ollama or a budget-capped provider key, a home-lab agent costs pennies a month. The value is the unattended upkeep, not the model.

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