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My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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Very cool, we're doing similar except we let agents open PRs as well + we track release metadata and agentic sessions via our ReARM system + we've recently launched an option for agents to track helm-based deployments via ReARM - https://docs.rearmhq.com/workflows/devops.html

I didn't mention this part, but while writing this I realized I could easily add a skill to hit the Forgejo PR API. There's no forgejo CLI like there is with GitHub sadly.

There is: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/command-line/

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't mention this part, but while writing this I realized I could easily add a skill to hit the Forgejo PR API. There's no forgejo CLI like there is with GitHub sadly.

There is: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/command-line/

That's not an API tool. It performs direct database access for administrative functions on the Forgejo server.

But there is a different tool that is an API accessing CLI: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/forgejo-cli

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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Some times I feel like a lot of people in tech independently go through the same things right around the same time with few people writing/sharing about it.

I am also creating this and enjoyed the post and comments all going through the same thing :)

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

#24
> I set up OpenCode Web UI with Git access to make my homelab easier to manage. OpenCode pushes to Git, I approve the PRs, GitOps deploys the changes. Best of all, OpenCode runs as a server with persistent coding sessions synced across devices.

> I’ll share my homelab setup soon. There are about a dozen docker compose stacks for the services that I manage.

That is probably neat, but before I read, how many thousands of dollars would I need to spend to acquire the RAM and GPUs needed to do something similar?

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

#25

> I set up OpenCode Web UI with Git access to make my homelab easier to manage. OpenCode pushes to Git, I approve the PRs, GitOps deploys the changes. Best of all, OpenCode runs as a server with persistent coding sessions synced across devices. > I’ll share my homelab setup soon. There are about a dozen docker compose stacks for the services that I manage. That is probably neat, but before I read, how many thousands…

0? OpenCode is just a harness, it can connect to any model hosted online.

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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I've been doing something pretty similar, except instead of having a persistent opencode server, I've been using this workflow that runs opencode inside of the Forgejo action runners: https://codeberg.org/dragonfyre13/forgejo-opencode Still tinkering with it, but the gist is that I can invoke Opencode with /oc inside of an Forgejo issue, then it will come back with a PR for me to review.

Nice! I've done that with Claude Code + Forgejo but as a small separate app to run Claude in Docker: https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

#29
post #14

Very cool, we're doing similar except we let agents open PRs as well + we track release metadata and agentic sessions via our ReARM system + we've recently launched an option for agents to track helm-based deployments via ReARM - https://docs.rearmhq.com/workflows/devops.html

I didn't mention this part, but while writing this I realized I could easily add a skill to hit the Forgejo PR API. There's no forgejo CLI like there is with GitHub sadly.

There is, but it's limited. For example Forgejo does not expose CI build logs via the API so it's hard to make Claude auto-fix a build issue.

I still need to find the time to get into the Forgejo code and add that endpoint.

Re: My Homelab AI Dev Platform

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I looked into running local models last month. They just aren't quite there for agentic tool use workflows without spending a small fortune. I'm hopeful smaller local models get much better soon. I was also hoping to put out another post on my homelab setup, it has some neat stuff, but I haven't had a chance to finish it.

I think it heavily depends on what you're asking the model to do. Qwen3.6, both 27B and 35B-A3B, do agentic tool use very well. Their decision making is sus, but the dense model is decent in that way. A 4-bit quant for either of those can run on many home systems with a bit of configuration. The biggest issue I've noticed is that the chat templates for open models are really hit or miss. The default Qwen3.6 chat temp…

My workflow is too different right now (gradually constrained to network less builds for reasons) but I am really enjoying how zeds agents have worked out in the past few weeks.

I have 27b, 35B-A3B and a cpu backed gpt-oss configured and use them in parallel, checking if one is getting ratholed and adding context or manual fixes.

I had various other systems setup and commercial models but really don’t use them.

It may be too interactive for some people, but it is a good mix of fail fast and often the places qwen3.6 was failing was eventually problems with the frontier models.

And this is with the unsloth defaults and hardened llama.cpp podman containers.

I do sometimes load other models or honestly just feed things into google’s free agent. But that is rare and to be honest manually fixing is typically faster and less error prone

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