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| # Hob Forge |
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| **Small household spirits for small machines.** |
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| A hob is an English household spirit that quietly does the work. Hob Forge exists for one |
| reason: **to help you actually run good models on the hardware you already have.** We build |
| **3B–4B finetunes and merges — the best little agentic models** — and we are unapologetically |
| **the champion of small GPUs and modest RAM**: every release states exactly what it needs at |
| 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB (and what CPU-only costs you), and ships with the exact way to run it — |
| step-by-step guides, tested configs, real support. |
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| Every release promises: |
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| - **A stated memory budget.** Quant sizes and KV-cache maths per hardware tier — 8GB, 12GB, |
| 16GB — in every card, measured, not projected. If it doesn't fit with real context at a |
| tier, the card says so plainly. |
| - **Honest evals.** Held-out benchmarks only, decontamination stated, baselines included — |
| the raw base and a same-size peer, same harness, same settings. We publish the harness |
| output, not vibes. |
| - **Full provenance.** Which teachers, which datasets, which licenses, what filtering — |
| disclosure tables with verified-trace counts. |
| - **A job, not a persona.** Each hob does one thing well — terminal work, code fixing, |
| tool routing. Merges combine proven specialists, and a merge that doesn't beat its |
| parents doesn't get a name. |
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| First resident in the works: **smeagle** — a 4B terminal/software-engineering agent. |
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| *Built in a home lab in the UK on a strict diet of verified data.* |
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