Slothstart: A Local Gemma Agent That Drafts the First Steps of Stalled Tasks

Slothstart is a command-line tool that reads a user's tasks.md file and overnight generates starter material for the task that has waited longest. It classifies each task as a draft, outline, project skeleton, or checklist, then produces only the opening step, leaving the rest for the user to complete. The tool runs an open-weight Gemma model locally through Ollama or llama.cpp, so task data never leaves the machine and works without a network connection. It includes a thermal check that pauses processing when a fanless laptop gets warm, and outputs are saved as plain files in a starters/ folder. The author's implementation details and findings are still marked as placeholders in the original post.