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The Birth of Bob

An Autonomous Agent for SQL Server Self-Healing and Network Monitoring

Ward T. Minson

A book about building a local AI agent for regulated database environments, why cloud LLMs are wrong for the work, and what it took to put real autonomy in front of a production SQL Server.

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Start with the Front Matter and the agent vocabulary glossary, or jump straight to a chapter:

Part 1: The Origin Story

  1. The Report Problem
  2. From DBA to Vibe Coder
  3. AI for Everyone

Part 2: Technical Implementation

  1. The Infrastructure
  2. Ollama and Local Sovereignty
  3. The Three-Layer Agent
  4. MCP as the Universal Bridge

Part 3: Future Roadmap

  1. Toward Self-Healing
  2. The AI-for-DBAs Community
  3. Scaling Sovereignty

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Source under hyp3rsoft/the-birth-of-bob on Gitea. Manuscript license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Code samples: MIT.