This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4

What I Built

Guild is a free, locally-running autonomous coding agent that works while you're away and backs off when you're present.

The problem: cloud-based AI coding agents (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) require paid APIs, constant babysitting, and hog your machine. I wanted an agent that:

Runs for free on local hardware