How are people handling context sharing across local tools?

Via lightweight orchestrators like Dagger or n8n—JSON payloads over HTTP/CLI, explicit gates, no shared state.

What open source projects for local-first orchestration?

Dagger, n8n, Temporal local mode, Woodpecker. Patterns: pipes, event payloads, wrapper APIs.

Absolutely—essential for Ollama + vector DBs. Keeps it scalable, debuggable, sovereign.

Your local dev stack feels like a herd of cats. Here's how tinkerers are gluing context across tools without the usual nightmares.

theAIcatchup Apr 10, 2026 4 min read

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