Which agentic stack fits your context: Claude Code, Sovereign, Cloud-OSS or Behind-Firewall

Duration: 60 min

Module goals

• Break an agentic stack down into three layers (agent/UI, routing/model gateway, model provider) and explain that each layer is swapped independently
• Choose one of the four stacks based on your constraints (budget, access, hardware, privacy, setup time) and name the trade-offs of that choice
• Explain what the LiteLLM model gateway gives you and how the fallback chain works all the way down to the local “floor”
• Tell the boss-worker scheme (Hermes) apart from a single agent that does everything itself, and determine when it's justified
• Draw up a step-by-step migration plan in which the old stack stays as a fallback until the new one has been tested on a real task

Units

What are your constraints?

Matrix of 4 stacks

Behind a censorship firewall: no VPN

Hermes + local stack

Migration plan for your workflow

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checked against the course: 2026-11-02 · 664b147