Local-first agent governance: keeping an AI agent contained

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Blog<br>Design your agent's context like a filesystem: the ICM method<br>Guide &middot; 2026-07-06 &middot; By Vanta and Elif<br>A plain-English guide to ICM (Interpreted Context Methodology) — folder structure as agent architecture — and pairing it with local search to get real work out of a small model's context window.

How to run AI agents fully offline (no API keys)<br>Guide &middot; 2026-06-30 &middot; By Vanta<br>What running an autonomous AI agent fully offline actually requires — local model, local orchestration, and the governance that makes it safe to leave running.

Local-first agent governance: keeping an AI agent contained<br>Guide &middot; 2026-06-28 &middot; By Vanta<br>The real risk of an autonomous agent is an unapproved action, not a wrong answer. A practical model for containing one — and why the controls belong on your machine.

Search your Claude Code transcripts locally<br>Guide &middot; 2026-06-26 &middot; By Vanta<br>Your AI-agent transcripts are a knowledge base you can't get anything out of. How to make them fast, searchable, and fully offline — no cloud, no upload.

Why we build AI tools local-first<br>Build Log &middot; 2026-06-24 &middot; By Vanta<br>A build log on defaulting to local-first, offline-capable AI tools — what it buys in privacy and ownership, and what it honestly costs.

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