MBP M5 24GB Runs

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by whiskeysquirrel - opened

I got this working on my MacBook M5 24GB. Originally tried MLX but hit issues with the model ending without an explicit final submission. Converted to GGUF f16 and served with llama.cpp instead, and it seems to work well:

My MBP ran at about 70 tokens/s and did a 20-CWE sweep in 5 minutes with 1 worker.

Definitely leverage the .antares.toml file to ignore anything you want to exclude β€” packages, build output, and especially legacy code. .gitignore isn't used, so you have to list it yourself. Excluding a dead Express directory cut a big chunk of my findings, since the model only gets a repo snapshot and 15 read-only commands and can't tell what's actually deployed.

Ultimately about half the findings were worth acting on. Pairing it with a harness or something that has repo context is where I think it really starts to shine.

Cisco Foundation AI org

Thanks for writing this up, and glad the CLI's working for you.

The MLX-to-GGUF note is useful for us: that "ends without a final submission" issue on MLX is hard to catch from the inside, so knowing llama.cpp + GGUF f16 runs clean helps. We've been seeing how wide the GGUF use has been, so we'll look into making the models more adoptable in those setups for future releases.

And your last point is the one we'd endorse hardest: pairing it with a harness that carries repo context is the sweet spot at this stage, and it's a direction we'll definitely look into improving in future iterations.

Thank you again!!

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