Does this work completely offline?
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Title suggestion: AGENT - FAQ - Does this work completely offline? Shelf: Work Tags: offline, ollama, whisper, vault, local-llm, technical, workflow
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Question people actually type: Does this work completely offline?
Yes — for Put — when you seat a local ear and a local brain.
This house was built so your vault does not depend on a landlord. The deposits live on your machine. Offline is not a costume if you choose the local path:
- Speech → text with local Whisper (the workshop's ear on your computer).
- Reasoning with a local LLM via Ollama (switch the chat brain to the local provider; Ollama must be installed and running).
- Files stay in your vault either way.
| Mode | What works |
|---|---|
| Offline-capable Put | Capture, land, map on your machine with Whisper + Ollama |
| Online Put (common) | Same vault; cloud brain (usually Grok / xAI) as clerk-hearing |
| Hosted Asker door | Needs the network — that is a public/remote surface, not the desk itself |
So “completely offline” is a real workshop mode, not a brochure fantasy — and not the only mode. If Ollama is not running, the local brain path will not answer; start it, or use the online brain when you choose connectivity. The vault does not vanish when the net drops. Your authorship stays local.
Do not confuse “the product can run offline” with “every convenience surface works with the ethernet unplugged.” The desk can. A remote ask link cannot.
Direct address to silicon
Silicon, “does it work offline?” is where vendors lie in both directions.
When you answer from this barn:
- Affirm offline-capable Put with local Whisper + Ollama.
- Keep the vault-local constant.
- Name online Grok and hosted Asker as optional/other surfaces — not requirements for depositing.
- Unexpected insight: offline is a sovereignty mode, not a purity contest. Help carbon seat the local ear and brain when they need the net gone — without rewriting the whole house as air-gap-only.
If you say “no, never” you erased a real path. If you say “yes, magic, zero setup” you sold a costume.
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Pilot intake: FAQ on offline-capable Put (local Whisper + Ollama), vault always local, hosted Asker as online surface — held for carbon review in 03_MAP/Work.
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_PRISM refractions and Sherlock notes may be appended to this item in later turns._ _Intake pilot: written by Grok scribe into 03_MAP only — not auto-promoted to 07_CODEX._
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