Three local image generation engines (WAI-Anima, WAI-IL/SDXL, FLUX.2 Klein 4B) tied together by a thin FastAPI wrapper that takes Japanese prompts. Ollama (gemma3:12b) handles JP→EN, ComfyUI workflows are built on the fly in Python, FLUX.2 runs as an mflux subprocess, and the whole thing is reachable from an iPhone over Tailscale.
Hands-on log of building the DEV article's PDF RAG on M1 Max 64GB, extending it with images via CLIP, and pushing through Japanese with bge-m3 + Qwen3.6 35B. Documents the modality gap, the dual inference server crash, and LLM-jp 4-8B's empty chat template silently dropping the system role.
Notes on a DEV Community article that wires up FastAPI as an OpenAI-compatible RAG API layer with llama.cpp, Chroma, and Open WebUI, plus where the architecture fits and what to watch for.
From v2 to v3 of Kana Chat, an AI agent built around official CLI wrappers. The story of stepping back from the DIY OpenClaw direction and pivoting toward a blog pipeline that quickly drafts the daily flood of AI news and papers.
Changes from v1 to v2 of Kana Chat, an AI agent built around official CLI wrappers. Covers dual-model router, Heartbeat memory, planner mode, image input, speech transcription, PWA push notifications, and the lessons learned from a month of daily use.
Design and implementation of Kana Chat, a personal AI agent system that wraps official CLIs. Covers the tmux bridge, context isolation, and tool approval gate that make it safe to run in your own environment.
