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Articles about Doka and AI agents
How Doka works, why a desktop agent matters, and what is happening with AI.
AI for Work Reports Built From Your Own Files, Not From a Description
How to use an AI agent for work reports — not describing data in words, but building the report from real files on your computer, locally and without sending numbers to an outside service.
How to Find a Document in a Folder When You Don't Remember the Exact Name
An AI agent searches a folder by the meaning of your query, not exact text or a filename — how that differs from Windows Search, grep, and Everything, and when regular search is still faster.
Checking a Cost Estimate With an AI Agent: Cross-Checking Your Own Documents Locally
How to use an AI agent to check a construction cost estimate — cross-check line items against acceptance reports, specifications, and instructions, without sending commercial data to an outside service. Honest about what Doka can't do.
Checking a Bid Submission for Contradictions Before Filing
How an AI agent helps cross-check the parts of a tender or RFP submission against each other before filing — finding discrepancies in specifications and completeness. Not legal advice: compliance with procurement rules is a specialist's job.
Accessed None Trying to Read Property: Why Your Blueprint Is Crashing
What the Blueprint Runtime Error 'Accessed None trying to read property' means, how to read the variable and node name out of the error text, and how IsValid differs from Validated Get.
DayZ types.xml: How to Edit Loot in Bulk Without Breaking Your Server
What nominal, min, lifetime, and restock mean in types.xml, why editing thousands of lines by hand breaks the economy, and how to change loot in groups while keeping a working backup.
Running a Forge Server With Mods on Your Own Computer: Setup and Errors Explained
How to set up a Forge server locally: the installer with the --installServer flag, eula.txt, the mods folder, and run.bat. Plus a breakdown of common startup errors and mod conflicts.
Building a Minecraft Data Pack by Hand: File Structure and Your First Recipe
How to build a data pack with no mods and no Java: what to put in pack.mcmeta, how the data folder is structured, where recipes and loot tables go, and why you need /reload after editing.
Your Own Minecraft Mod in Java: From Empty Project to a Working .jar
How to build your first Minecraft mod: MDK, JDK 21, Gradle, and project structure. Plus an honest look at what AI can actually do for this work and what you'll still have to do yourself.
Your Own DayZ Server: Configuration and Local Setup Explained
How to run a DayZ server on your own computer: what serverDZ.cfg does, which ports you need, where the mission files live, and why it's worth starting locally before renting hosting.
MCP in Unreal Engine 5.8: Connecting an AI Agent to Your Project
UE 5.8 shipped a built-in MCP server: how to enable the Unreal MCP plugin, generate a client config, what an agent can do in the editor, and why the server shouldn't be exposed externally.
LM Studio, Open WebUI, and AnythingLLM Alternatives: What to Switch to and For What
A breakdown of local AI apps by type: chatting with a model, a web platform, RAG over documents, and an agent. What replaces what, and why swapping within one type rarely fixes the actual problem.