Mingbird: A Local-First Agent Harness Enabling Small Open Models to Complete Real Tasks · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2610.02001/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:27:26 GMTMingbird: A Local-First Agent Harness Enabling Small Open Models to Complete Real Tasks — HN submissionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50332594urn:hackerpapers:submission:2610.02001:50332594Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:54:01 GMT<p>Show HN: Rufous – Agent attuned to small models</p><p>Rufous is an experimental coding agent harness attuned for use with small models in the 2b to 12b range. It builds on the work of the Mingbird team which they first described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02001</p><p>3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2610.02001/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI