My first thought when reading about this was, why does Pi with 8 custom skills and one extension work so well for me, and apparently so poorly for others that they are compelled to go to these lengths?

people use different models. I use small local ones for instance

Can this perform "agentic tasks" while using a local ollama instance

Yes, definitely.

Also if anyone wants opinionated and easy pi, oh-my-pi has been that choice for ages