From Manual Checklist to Merge Gate: E2E Testing with Swamp
How I replaced a manual checklist and AI browser agent with a Swamp extension model that gates PRs with structured, queryable test results — no cloud CI spend required.
Writing
Local Agents Are Not Toys
Local LLMs on the M5 Max have become useful for bounded agent work, but they are not Amp or Claude killers yet.
Throwing Hermes into the Swamp
Hermes and Swamp finally worked once I stopped chasing install ownership and fixed the session snapshot that every tool subprocess sources.