RAG for Your Homelab Wiki: Answers That Cite Their Source
Turn your homelab wiki into a cited Q&A endpoint with dependency-free Node: retrieve-then-generate, every answer naming its source page, stale ones labelled.
Track AI Token Spend in Grafana: Claude, Codex, and Ollama
Wire every Claude Code, Codex, and Ollama call into Prometheus and one Grafana dashboard — tokens, latency, cache hits, and real dollars vs quota burn.
10 Mistakes I Made Building a Homelab Second Brain (And How Each Got Fixed)
What went wrong — and why — as I built a canonical Git vault, AI agent skills, write locks, and projection consumers: silent data loss, hanging CLIs, restore gaps, and the one mistake I made twice.
Make Your AI Agents Read the Docs First, Every Time
Give your AI agents a revision-labeled cold start against your knowledge vault — verify the canonical commit, load only the pages the task needs, fail closed on mismatch, and persist outcomes through the controlled writer.
Semantic Search for Your Notes, Running Locally
Give your knowledge vault semantic search with a local embeddings index — built on Ollama and nomic-embed-text, cached by content hash, and labeled with the commit it was built from so staleness is always visible.
Open WebUI Advanced: RAG, Pipelines, and Custom System Prompts
Go beyond basic chat with Open WebUI — set up Retrieval-Augmented Generation with local documents, configure pipeline tools, create specialized assistants with custom system prompts, and use the API for programmatic access.
Hermes Agent: Self-Hosted AI Agent with Fallback Model Chains
Deploy Hermes Agent on Proxmox LXC — a fully autonomous AI agent with tool use, Anthropic primary routing, and OpenRouter fallback chains. Includes the Kanban integration and CLI delegation setup.
CPU-Only Ollama Cluster on Proxmox LXC: 3-Node Setup with Load Balancing
Run local LLMs across three Proxmox LXC containers with Ollama, expose them via Open WebUI's built-in load balancer, and avoid the Docker-in-LXC pitfalls that cost me two sessions to fix.