About Derek's Guides
This site documents systems I build and operate: AI agent runtimes, memory and retrieval tools, MCP integrations, homelab infrastructure, and the security boundaries around them.
The audience is my future self and technical peers who want the reasoning as well as the commands. A useful guide should define its terms, state the trust boundary, and explain how to verify the result.
What you will find
Section titled “What you will find”- practical setup and troubleshooting guides
- architecture explanations that separate products from patterns
- real operational examples from a working homelab
- links to primary documentation for details that change quickly
The source is available on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0.
Other sites
Section titled “Other sites”- derekleeds.com is my profile and the main directory for my work.
- Learn contains shorter writing, project notes, and reading lists.
- Resume covers my professional experience, education, and military leadership.
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