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Articles about Doka and AI agents
How Doka works, why a desktop agent matters, and what is happening with AI. page 7.
Useful MCP Servers — What to Connect to an AI Agent
A roundup of useful MCP servers for a desktop agent — GitHub, databases, Telegram, trackers, and calendar. What each one gets you and how to add a server in Doka in a couple of minutes.
How to Connect Telegram to an AI Model Through MCP
A step-by-step walkthrough of giving an AI agent access to Telegram through MCP — reading messages from chats and channels, building summaries, and sending replies, using the Doka desktop agent as the example.
Connecting a Database to AI Through MCP — Ask Questions Without SQL
How to give an AI model access to a database through MCP and ask questions about your data in plain language instead of writing SQL by hand. Explained using the Doka desktop agent.
Local AI Agent on Your PC: Files, Terminal, and MCP Without the Cloud
What a local AI agent is, how it differs from a cloud chat, and how to run one on your own computer — with access to files, the terminal, and external tools through MCP, no subscription or VPN.
Qwen Locally for Code: A Private Coding Assistant Instead of Copilot
How to run Qwen as a local coding assistant — free, private, and cloud-free. A local model that doesn't just write code, but edits files and runs terminal commands too.
How to Run a Local AI Model on Your PC in 5 Minutes — No Docker, No Command Line
A simple way to run a local AI model on your own computer — no Docker, no terminal, no configuration. Install an app, and it picks and downloads a model that fits your hardware automatically.
AI Without Internet: Using AI Fully Offline on Windows and Mac
How to work with AI without internet — fully offline, on your own computer. What you need, which models fit, and what you gain in privacy.
A Cursor Alternative: A Local AI Agent Instead of an AI Code Editor
What to use instead of Cursor if you want the code to stay off the cloud entirely. An honest comparison of the two formats — an AI code editor with inline autocomplete versus a desktop agent that does the whole task.
AI for Working With Excel and PDF Files Locally — No Cloud Upload
How to process spreadsheets and documents with AI right on your own computer — extract data, merge, and check Excel, PDF, and Word files without uploading them to someone else's cloud.
Desktop AI Agent for Windows and Mac: What It Actually Does
What a desktop AI agent is, how it differs from browser chatbots, and which tasks it handles right on your computer — files, terminal, the internet, schedules, and MCP.
Who Needs Doka — Three Scenarios From Real Work
Doka isn't just for developers. Here's how a desktop AI agent helps a builder, a lawyer, and an analyst handle routine work right on their own computer.
Open Source and Vibe Coding — Why an Agent Belongs on the Desktop
Browser chats have hit a ceiling. Here's why the next step for AI is an agent on your own computer, one that sees your files and carries tasks through to the end.