{"product_id":"homelab-agent-kit","title":"The Homelab Agent Kit — 9 AI Agents, 13-Chapter Build Guide, Python","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 13-chapter build guide and the working Python code for nine self-hosted AI agents, running on a Raspberry Pi 5 since June 2026. This is the actual system behind homelabbench.com — the control plane, the content pipeline, the commerce automation, the paper-trading lab, the feedback loops — documented chapter by chapter with the architecture decisions, the dead ends, and the things that broke. Instant download. 74 KB. Everything is plain text and Python; nothing phones home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e13 chapters:\u003c\/strong\u003e What This Is · Hardware \u0026amp; OS · Security · Agent Anatomy · The Brain (control plane with web dashboard + Telegram) · Hybrid LLM (local Ollama + remote fallback) · Content Agent (publishing pipeline) · Distribution (RSS triage, Bluesky syndication) · Commerce (product sourcing \u0026amp; listing automation) · Trading Lab (honest paper-trading, no real money) · Feedback Loops (Search Console data back into the system) · Remote Access · Lessons (what failed, what that cost in time, what the author would change)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWorking code for 9 agents:\u003c\/strong\u003e control-plane orchestrator, content writer, RSS triage, Bluesky syndicator, e-commerce sourcer, e-commerce lister, Search Console feedback agent, paper-trading agent, Telegram notifier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRuns on a Raspberry Pi 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e No GPU required. Local inference via Ollama for the tasks that suit it; the guide is explicit about where local models fall short and when the system calls out to a remote API instead.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho this is for:\u003c\/strong\u003e someone who already runs a homelab, is comfortable with SSH and Python, and wants a concrete, working example of a multi-agent system they can pull apart, extend, or cannibalise for their own projects. You should be the sort of person who reads a \u003ccode\u003edocker-compose.yml\u003c\/code\u003e before you read the README.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho this is not for:\u003c\/strong\u003e if you are looking for a passive income machine, this is not it. If you have never SSHed into a Linux box, you will not enjoy this. If you want polished SaaS-grade software, look elsewhere — this is homelab code, written to work reliably for one person on one Pi, and documented honestly rather than prettily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn honest note on results:\u003c\/strong\u003e the author's own site and Shopify shop have not yet turned a profit. The trading agent is paper-trading only and has never risked real money. The system works — it publishes content, syndicates posts, sources products, files listings, ingests Search Console data, and runs a simulated trading book — but working is not the same as earning. You are buying the engineering and the documentation, not a outcome. What you get is a system you can verify, run, and modify, plus a frank account of what went wrong along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Home Lab Bench","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53731742384475,"sku":"HLB-KIT-01","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/2764\/8603\/files\/homelab-agent-kit.png?v=1786113149","url":"https:\/\/home-lab-bench.myshopify.com\/products\/homelab-agent-kit","provider":"Home Lab Bench","version":"1.0","type":"link"}