Taking Morgan Willis’s 10-Minute Agent to the Next Level: Meet Alfred

I recently came across this fantastic post by @morganwilliscloud : "AI Agents don’t need complex workflows: Build one in Python in 10 minutes." Her point was clear: we often overcomplicate Agentic AI. You don't need massive enterprise frameworks to build something functional. Inspired by that "build-to-understand" philosophy, I decided to create Alfred—my personal digital butler running locally on my Linux Mint machine. 🧠 The Brains: Local & Private Following Morgan’s lead, I skipped the heavy cloud APIs. Instead, I used Ollama with the Qwen 2.5 Coder (7B) model. It’s incredibly snappy at function calling and runs entirely on my hardware. 🛠️ Giving Alfred "Hands" (The Tools) While a basic agent might just do math, I wanted Alfred to actually manage my OS. Using Python’s subprocess and psutil, I gave him four specific skills: System Health Check: He monitors CPU, RAM, and Disk usage in real-time. Multimedia Control: He scans my ~/Videos and ~/Music folders to launch VLC or Audacious on