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Shinkai runs locally by default.
Your agents, your data, your history.
Connected to the cloud when you want it.
Private when you don't. That's the setup.
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The tradeoff used to be significant.
Local models were much weaker than cloud ones. That gap has closed a lot. The privacy and reliability benefits didn't disappear with it.
Most AI tools are built to impress in a demo.
Fewer are built to be useful on a random Tuesday afternoon when you just need something done and don't want to think about it.
Someone ran their first Shinkai agent today.
It searched the web,
summarized a research paper,
and saved the output to a file.
They didn't write a single line of code.
They haven't thought about it since.
That's what automation is supposed to feel like.
Google replaced search results with AI agents.
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% in a week.
Everyone called it a privacy protest.
The real signal is simpler: people don't mind AI.
They mind having it forced on them.
There's a big difference between a tool you choose and one that replaces what you had.
Every time you type something into a cloud AI tool,
you're making a decision about who else gets to read it.
Most people don't think about that until they've already typed it.
Shinkai Points aren't a loyalty program.
They're a record of participation.
Every mission completed,
every agent run,
every piece of feedback given.
That record compounds.
That's also why "local-first" matters more than it sounds.
When the agent runs on your machine,
you see everything.
What it's doing,
what data it's touching,
when it fails.
No black box.
No guessing.