I have seen enough success with local agents to take them seriously. They work especially well for coding because they can inspect a project, edit files, run tests, and correct their own mistakes.
I've written/plagiarized a simple KiXtart script to map 3 network drives during logon which works if run manually so I know the script is OK. I have then put %WINDIR ...
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