Building an agentic AI assistant that runs entirely in your browser with no cloud required

"Agentic AI" has become a marketing term that means everything and nothing. Most "agentic" tools are just language models with tool use, where the tools make API calls to cloud services, and the orchestration happens on some company's server. I wanted to build something genuinely different: an agentic assistant where the entire execution — the model inference, the tool calls, the memory — happens on your device. That's Pocket guIDE . What "agentic" actually means here Pocket guIDE can execute multi-step tasks autonomously. Given a goal, it will: Break the goal into steps Execute each step (searching, reading, writing, calculating) Use the output of each step to inform the next Return a consolidated result The key distinction from a chatbot: it doesn't just respond to your message. It acts on it over multiple iterations until the task is done. What tools does it have access to? The agent has access to: Web search — via a local search proxy, not through a cloud AI service Calculator / co