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5 posts on AI Engineering.
Maximus grows to 57 — your local model isn't reading the manual
Five skills for running Maximus on open-source local models: OpenClaw on Ollama, Ollama operations, reliable tool calling from small models, evaluation on your own tasks, and local fine-tuning. The finding behind them: on most consumer machines, the default setup silently cut off most of Maximus's own prompt. Suite now at 57 skills.
Maximus grows to 51 — hallucination is usually an architecture bug
Two skills for small local models: maximus-slm-local-stack for hardware, KV-cache VRAM math, quantization and runtime, and maximus-local-research-assistant for grounded local RAG with a refusal contract, span citations, and verification. The premise: “it makes things up” is usually an architecture bug, not a model bug. Suite now at 51 skills.
Three skills that make Maximus research like a person
maximus-chain-of-verification, maximus-investigative-research, and maximus-literature-review — the reasoning-quality layer, the reporter's discipline, and the researcher's PRISMA workflow. Suite now at 42 skills.
Two Kimi K3 skills join Maximus
maximus-k3-model-selection and maximus-k3-self-hosting — pick the right frontier model when K3 is on the shortlist, and run K3 on your own GPUs (or honestly decide not to).
Introducing the Maximus Suite — 36 skills for AI-native engineers
36 skills. 5 pillars. One workhorse. The full suite for engineers, founders, and scientists building with AI — from cognitive OS to AI SEO.