Does local inference keep every tool offline?

No. The model runs locally, but a tool can still reach a remote service if your rules allow it. Review tool routes separately.

Can an agent change files without asking?

Writes, commands and spend outside your permissions file wait for approval. The model cannot grant itself permission.

Can I take back an agent's edits?

Yes. In projects you enrol in Versions, file changes are recorded. Restore a file or undo a whole run, with or without Git.

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A local model still needs rules for its tools.

Install a coding model that fits your Mac and open the repository. The model runs locally, the host holds the approvals, and every file change lands in a history you can put back from the timeline.

Pinned coding models that fit your Macincluded
Approval before any tool effectincluded
A version of every project file editincluded
Timeline restore that reviews changes and checks the folder has not moved onincluded
Command-line restore and undo that preview before they applyincluded

plan: Free
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Install a coding model See local coding models

Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.

Local inference and controlled tools are two separate decisions, and both are yours. The model proposes, your permissions file decides, and a restore previews before it changes a file.

What changes

Now

Moving inference onto your Mac feels like a safety measure, until a tool call reaches a remote service because nobody wrote a rule about it.

With Bandicot

Local inference and controlled tools are two separate decisions, and both are yours. The model proposes, your permissions file decides, and a restore previews before it changes a file.

Start in three moves

Install a fitting coding model and open the repository.

Name the folder and the job
Keep local inference and controlled code tools in the same project.
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It asks before it writes
When work can change files or systems, Bandicot makes the decision visible before the effect lands.
Keep it, or put it back
Every changed file is recorded, and undoing a run puts its files back with one click.

Everything on one slip

The catalog offers coding models that fit, tool calls follow your permission rules, and Versions leaves out ignored build output.

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Asked: Keep local inference and controlled code tools in the same project
Before it wrote: It asked, and waited for your answer
Files kept: local-modelsversion kept
fitversion kept
historyversion kept
Stands behind: Restoring from the timeline reviews changes and checks that the folder has not moved on
Command-line restore and undo preview changes before applying them
Versions follows .gitignore rules to leave out ignored build output, logs and caches

Paid to Bandicot: Free
Model bill: from your provider

Local coding inference with host-controlled project tools.

Local inference and controlled tools are two separate decisions, and both are yours. The model proposes, your permissions file decides, and a restore previews before it changes a file.

Where the hours go now

No building the approval and file-history layer around a runtime.

Early
The job lands
Moving inference onto your Mac feels like a safety measure, until a tool call reaches a remote service because nobody wrote a rule about it.
Before noon
You hand it over
Local inference and controlled tools are two separate decisions, and both are yours. The model proposes, your permissions file decides, and a restore previews before it changes a file.
Mid-afternoon
A trusted harness around the model
Bandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
Last thing
You read what changed
Local coding inference with host-controlled project tools.

Local Coding Bench

Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.

Pinned coding models that fit your Macincluded
Approval before any tool effectincluded
A version of every project file editincluded
Timeline restore that reviews changes and checks the folder has not moved onincluded
Command-line restore and undo that preview before they applyincluded

Free1 profileFree

Install a coding model See local coding models

Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.

No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.

What we say about it

Hosted providers and local models, in the same project.

The catalog offers coding models that fit, tool calls follow your permission rules, and Versions leaves out ignored build output.

Read this before you start

Made for

Developers comfortable with the limits of local coding models.

Developers using local coding models for permitted repository work

Not yet for

People expecting local models to match frontier coding capability.