Kowalski 2.6: local AI agents where a 2B model writes the SQL and plain code does the rest

Kowalski is an agent runtime in Rust that runs on your own machine. You give a "horde" (a small pipeline of agents) a spreadsheet, a few web pages or a document, and it gives you back a file: a report workbook, a morning brief, a note. It started in March 2025 as a weekend Ollama wrapper and has mostly grown by deleting things: a five-layer architecture, a crate per agent and three databases are gone. What's left: a four-crate workspace on crates.io (2.6.1) that builds one ~20 MB binary tokio...