Show dev: I built an AI agent workstation in Nairobi for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & MiniMax

What I built

Atlarix — a ~400MB AI agent workstation that sits beside your IDE (VS Code, IntelliJ, Vim) instead of replacing it. A native harness built around the open-weight frontier: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax. BYOK is still there for everything else, but these four are the point, not an afterthought.

Built solo under NorahLabs, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The problem

I was running open-weight models for actual agentic work — multi-file edits, terminal commands, codebase exploration. Every tool I tried was built around Claude or GPT, with my models bolted on as a BYOK option. Context-window assumptions tuned for a different model. System prompts and tool-calling shaped around closed-model behavior. Retrieval that either dumps the whole repo or leans on a cloud vector DB that doesn't even exist on an offline machine.