Standards that apply to your world
A security component being deployed is not the same as it being in the request path. The component has to actually intercept the traffic. This is a fleet law — we verify every security layer is actually enforced, not just present.
Your CISSP training says exactly this. IAM policies that exist but aren't attached. Security groups that are defined but not associated. Same principle.
Before any destructive action: (1) What is here? (2) What am I trading it for? (3) Can I restore it? Every agent in the fleet gates on this before deleting, overwriting, or sending anything external.
Every MSP engineer runs this mentally before touching production. We just made it explicit and machine-enforceable.
Local 72B = primary for all routine work. Cloud API (Claude/Gemini) = clutch only — for the hard problems, CLO gate moments, and novel situations. Don't run the cloud model for everything. Use it like a closer, not a starter.
You already run local ollama. This is exactly that doctrine formalised. Your instinct to ask "can it use local models?" was the right call.
Every silo (machine, deployment) follows the same forge model: same crew, same structure, same wake ceremony. No snowflake servers. Identical configuration across the fleet — deviations are documented and IRF'd.
This is MSP discipline applied to AI fleet management. You've been running this for clients for 25 years. Infrastructure-as-code, but for agent deployment.
Derived from Lean 0-sorry proof standard. Any gap (sorry) is detected, tracked, and closed. The fleet anticipates the close. When it closes: BOOM — the floor rises. Applied to internal mistakes and external vulnerability findings alike.
ITIL incident management with a different vocabulary. P1 incident → war room → close → post-mortem → floor rises. Same motion.
Your skill stack vs fleet requirements
Managed Services ✓
CISSP ✓
Cisco / Networking ✓
VMware / Virtualisation ✓
Local LLM (ollama) ✓
Cloud (Azure/Claude/Gemini) ✓
Solution Architecture ✓
Disaster Recovery ✓
IT Service Management ✓
Pre-sales / Solution Selling ✓
Smart Contract Security
Kubernetes / AKS
Go / Python development
ARC-AGI benchmarking
Orange = you already have it. The rest are learnable. You're not starting from zero on any of them given your background.
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