TLDR; You don't need to pay OpenAI to log all your ideas and sell them to your competitors... you can just have a local research assistant without any middlemen.
Everyone and their mom in law seems to be super amazed by ChatGPT Deep Research.
To prove that this isn't magic, I pulled
jan-nano - a model refined for MCP on top of Qwen3 - with ollama, and connected it with the ddg-search mcp (because that doesn't KYC.) I then hung both in fast-agent:fastagent.config.yaml:
mcp:
servers:
search:
command: "npx"
args: ["-y", "@oevortex/ddg_search@latest"]
agent.py:
import asyncio
from mcp_agent.core.fastagent import FastAgent
# Create the application
fast = FastAgent("fast-agent")
@fast.agent(name="researcher", servers=["search"], use_history=False, model="generic.jan-nano:latest")
async def main():
async with fast.run() as agent:
await agent.interactive()
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())
I then took the last problem a consultant friend told me he was going to have a 4h explorative meeting about: how to run a docker container orchestrator for a lightweight deployment (without k8s).
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── (researcher) [USER] ─╮
│ │
│ Research what the best orchestrator for docker containers is in │
│ lightweight but diverse deployments spanning at most 3 host servers. │
│ │
╰─ jan-nano:latest turn 1 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
the agent does the
<think></think> thing and then:╭─ [TOOL CALL] ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ {"numResults":5,"query":"best Docker orchestrator for lightweight │
│ deployments across 3 host servers"} │
│ │
╰─ [web] [fetch] [url] [felo] ────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [TOOL RESULT] ─╮
│ │
│ meta=None content=[TextContent(type='text', text='1. [16 Best Container │
│ Orchestration Tools and Services - │
│ DevOpsCube](https://devopscube.com/docker-container-clustering-tools/)\n │
│ In this 2025 updated guide, I have covered the best 16 container │
│ │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
and then it spits out a massive response block with a recommendation:
╭─ [ASSISTANT] (researcher) ───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ [..] │
│ **Recommendation**: Use Docker Swarm for its simplicity, integration, and │
│ efficiency in small-scale, diverse deployments. │
│ │
╰─ [search] ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
I still think it doesn't do enough research so I'm going to tune this a bit, but... sovereign "deep research" for just the electricity cost on your old Macbook is here. Took about 2 minutes on my 2020 M1.
goose- should work.goose.