Building agent systems for network operations on local small models — architecture, releases, and hands-on guides.https://olavai.com/en-ushttps://olavai.com/blog/three-ways-to-learn-self-improving-agent/https://olavai.com/blog/three-ways-to-learn-self-improving-agent/Learning isn't one thing. OLAV's agent improves across three layers at three speeds — memory that learns every run, weights it can consolidate into with a benchmark gate, and a harness that tunes its own knobs — unified by one loop and one governance contract so they reinforce instead of fight. Here's the story of how we built it, including the times the system correctly threw its own work away.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTContinual LearningAgent ArchitectureLocal LLMFine-TuningSelf-Improvementhttps://olavai.com/blog/building-agents-on-small-local-models/https://olavai.com/blog/building-agents-on-small-local-models/Inside an enterprise network you often can't send data to a hosted model, and a local frontier model is too expensive to run. A ~30B model is the practical sweet spot — but it hallucinates, its knowledge is thin, and its usable context is short. Here's how to build a real agent on top of it anyway.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureSmall ModelsAgentsLocal LLMNetOpshttps://olavai.com/blog/quick-start-your-network-in-answers-out/https://olavai.com/blog/quick-start-your-network-in-answers-out/A hands-on 15-minute quick start. Install OLAV, get your fleet in two ways (live SSH collection with Nornir, or an offline backup import), take a fresh snapshot, then ask in plain English, draw the topology, draft a validated change, and run a morning audit — all on a local ~30B model, nothing leaving your network.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick StartNetOpsLocal LLMNornirBatfishhttps://olavai.com/blog/olav-v013/https://olavai.com/blog/olav-v013/Two releases that transform OLAV from a network query tool into a full infrastructure automation platform — schema-aware API integration, environment-aware script generation, and a 7-layer security model.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasedevopsinfranetopsarchitecturesecurityhttps://olavai.com/blog/agent-harness-the-os-for-ai/https://olavai.com/blog/agent-harness-the-os-for-ai/Why AI agents need more than just a model and how Olav's built-in sandbox guard redefining safety for NetOps.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureSafetyAgent HarnessNetOpshttps://olavai.com/blog/olav-v010-launch/https://olavai.com/blog/olav-v010-launch/OLAV is now publicly available under BSL-1.1. Here's what's inside the platform, how the architecture works, and what comes next.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasearchitectureopen-source