There is a specific emotional jolt when a local model stops sounding clever and starts acting competent. That was the moment here. Not because the model delivered one dramatic answer, but because it could actually work: inspect a CLI, choose commands, run filters, survive a failed path, and keep the chain together. The trigger line in my terminal was simple: local model online → tool access confirmed → "I can use altFINS CLI." Three things converged on one laptop: Codex as the agent layer A local qwen3.6:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4 model served by Ollama The af CLI from altFINS The whole pipeline ran on a single M1 Max , returned a structured shortlist of 13 crypto assets, and cost less than a cent in electricity.…