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Rufous – Agent attuned to small models

Rufous is an experimental coding agent harness attuned for use with small models in the 2b to 12b range. It builds on the work of the Mingbird team which they first described in this paper: https://arxiv.org&#x…

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Rufous is an experimental coding agent harness attuned for use with small models in the 2b to 12b range. It builds on the work of the Mingbird team which they first described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02001

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