Small Models for Agentic Systems

Last night I spent some time trying to make my MCP server work with a smaller local model , one that is just 1.2 billion parameters and 696 MB on disk. This is LiquidAI's LFM 2.5 1.2B, with file name LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-QAD-Q4_0.gguf . LFM 1.2B Most small models I test fail too badly and I just delete them right away. However this model seemed to have some potential to work for my agentic system.…