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Application architectures that keep user data and processing on the device, with explicit limits on what 'local-first' promises.
WorldScript Studio's autosave checks the file on disk before writing and refuses to save over five kinds of unexpected state. Destructive recovery is limited to three actions, each tied to one failure kind and one storage backend.
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Trail of Bits filed 27 private advisories against the local-first agent runtime, and OpenClaw rated 24 of them with no Critical findings. The count, not the worst entry, is what transfers to anyone whose agent branches work.
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A free Mac app from Yevhen Kharkivskyi holds Done, Next and Backlog in documents you can open in any editor. Its own site says there is no account and no cloud sync. Those terms decide who it can serve.
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A new local-only vault delegates all encryption to SOPS and age, then adds an MCP server so an assistant can act on a secret without receiving it. Adoption costs three artifacts on every machine.
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Agent memory stores that only record and recall start degrading in about three weeks, and a design note on dev.to puts the cause in duplicate writes and reversed decisions that no pass ever cleans up.
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Timeline Studio keeps project media in the tab, which relocates the hard problems: mixed WebGPU and WASM runtimes, pinned model mirrors, and an export that cannot just record the preview.
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