So you wanna build a local RAG?

Skald spun up a full local RAG stack, with pgvector, Sentence Transformers, Docling, and llama.cpp, in under 10 minutes. The thing hums on English point queries. Benchmarks show open-source models and rerankers can go toe-to-toe with SaaS tools in most tasks. They stumble, though, on multilingual prompts and cross-doc mashups.