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Laptop as control room, home PC as the engine

Let the MacBook control and a home PC run every agent through one gateway. Developer running agents on a home Windows PC.

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what to steal

Run agents on an always-on box behind one model gateway; reach it with zero open ports.

Our takeaway from the source, not a quote.

Drawn from this card's sourced fields. Amber = older model named by the source. Rose = cut or replaced.

nadimtuhin-mac-controls-pc-runs.toml

# Let the MacBook control and a home PC run every agent through one gateway
# source: https://www.nadimtuhin.com/blog/ai-coding-agent-setup

[rig]
who     = "Developer running agents on a home Windows PC"
author  = "Nadim Tuhin"
date    = "2026-09-01"

harness = ["Claude Code", "Codex", "Pi", "OpenCode", "Hermes Agent"]
models  = ["Any model behind 9Router"]

[keep]
  - Tailscale + Cloudflare Tunnel: zero open ports
  - Herdr connects the MacBook to Ubuntu terminals on the PC
  - 9Router: one local OpenAI-style endpoint (localhost:20128/v1) for every CLI
  - 9agent launcher: pick agent, model and permission mode; --sandbox runs in Docker with only the working dir mounted
  - Hermes runs scheduled jobs

⚠ Any model behind 9Router: older model(s), named by the source on 2026-09-01. See current models.

thing	status	why (per source)
Running agents on the laptop	moved	MacBook is the control room; the PC does the work

Source: https://www.nadimtuhin.com/blog/ai-coding-agent-setup · checked 2026-10-14

OpenCode on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GLM-5.3 instead of a native seat

steal → Point your harness at a cheaper model endpoint and test it on your own tasks.

OpenCodeClaude CodeCodex DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 deepseek-coder model n

by Vanja Petreski

~/rigs/elilap-openclaw-hermes-proxm….toml2026-06-05

OpenClaw and Hermes in separate VMs, so neither is a single point of failure

steal → Put each agent in its own snapshot-able VM; fix credentials next.

OpenClawHermes AgentCodex GPT-5.5Qwen3.6 27B / 35B Credentials in the age

by Eli Lap

~/rigs/stefancrncic-t3-three-machin….toml𝕏 · 2026-10-13

Five harnesses, three machines, one orchestrator

steal → Install several harnesses on worker machines and drive them from one place.

Claude CodeCodexCursor

by Stefan (@stefancrncic)