Building a Safe, Local AI Coding Agent with Node.js (opens in new tab)

Welcome to the 4th article of the MCP and RAG with JS series. In this article, we will learn what AI agents are by building a practical, beginner-friendly coding agent in JavaScript. We will use a locally running LLM, Mistral on Ollama. You do not need any paid subscription or API key. Everything runs locally on your machine, so this is accessible for learning, testing, and experimenting. What We Are Building We are building a local personal coding agent. It runs in the terminal and helps us ...