This guide walks you through setting up an AI agent with persistent memory, modular skills, tool integration, and task automation—without exposing endpoints to the internet. Time required: ~2 hours Difficulty: Comfortable creating folders and text files; some terminal use helpful but not required Prerequisites: macOS/Windows/Linux, Anthropic API
Two weeks ago week, the Pentagon put Google's Gemini for Government on the desktops of 3 million military personnel, civilians, and contractors. If you have a CAC, you now have access to a frontier AI model cleared to handle CUI. Most people will poke at it a few
This is for team who know their coordination is a mess but don't have the energy for another change initiative. If you've been putting off "fixing how we track work" because it sounds exhausting, this is the smallest-possible-steps version. You can feel the problem.
If you've worked in consulting or government transformation, you've probably encountered kaizen - Toyota's continuous improvement philosophy that revolutionized manufacturing. You might know the Lean methodology it spawned. But there's a less famous Japanese management practice that may matter more for organizational