Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini — the actual setup

Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini

Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini — the actual setup

By Vilius Vystartas

I have an agent that does my low-stakes coding. File edits, test fixes, build verification. The kind of work you'd normally do yourself but it's faster to delegate. It also writes Playwright tests, reviews code, updates documentation, and runs deploys.

It runs locally — Mac Mini M4, 24 GB. No cloud API calls for the coding part. The orchestration layer still uses a cheap cloud model for planning and routing. The actual file editing is done by Pi, a coding agent that connects to oMLX, an OpenAI-compatible local LLM server.