Feels like magic. A local gpt-oss 20B is capable of agentic work

Tools 447 points 127 comments 3 weeks ago

I gave a try to zeroclaw agent (intstead of the bloated and overhyped one). After few hours of fuckery with configs it's finally useful. Both main and embeddings models are running locally. I carefully read what it's trying to execute in shell, and permit only \[relatively\] safe tools in config. So far it can interact with macOS apps, web pages, and local files while keeping all my data private. gpt-oss 20B has its limits though, it loses focus after 15-20 steps and often needs direct instructions to use persistent memory. It also starts behaving weirdly if tool access has been denied or tool returned some error.

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