# OpenJarvis + Ollama: A Local AI Agent That Tracks Watts Per Query

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-26-openjarvis-ollama-local-ai-agent/
> Last updated: 2026-06-26
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# OpenJarvis + Ollama: A Local AI Agent That Tracks Watts Per Query

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Fahd Mirza picks up **OpenJarvis** — a local-first personal AI framework out of Stanford's Hazy Research and Scaling Intelligence Lab, built as part of their "Intelligence per Watt" research — and wires it up to Ollama on a single-GPU Ubuntu box. The walkthrough covers the one-line install, the seven built-in presets, an Open Claw–style `doctor` health check, and a benchmark that reports something most local-AI tools ignore: average watts and joules per token alongside speed.

Source video

"OpenJarvis + Ollama: Local AI Agent That Tracks Every Watt" by **Fahd Mirza** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0fdbQvwOrgQ)

## Key Takeaways

- **Local-first by design.** OpenJarvis assumes your personal AI should run on your own device, not someone else's cloud. It plugs straight into Ollama (and also supports vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp), reusing any models you've already pulled.
- **Five primitives.** The framework is built around Intelligence (model selection and catalog), the Engine (the inference layer), Agents (single-turn chat up to multi-step reasoning and scheduled tasks), Memory (persistent, searchable storage), and a Learning system that records every interaction as a trace and uses it to improve routing over time.
- **Presets do the configuring for you.** Seven ready-made presets ship in the box — including morning digest, deep research, and code assistant. Running `jarvis init code-assistant` swapped in a tuned prompt and harness, and produced a noticeably better script than the default agent on the same request.
- **Energy is a first-class metric.** Per-query telemetry tracks token counts and tokens/sec, and `jarvis bench run` reports latency, throughput, *and* energy — in the demo, ~25 tokens/sec, ~278 W average draw, and ~10.9 joules per token, all at $0 cost because everything ran locally.
- **Early but evolving fast.** The project is new — expect rough edges (a persistent self-update nag appeared even right after install). A `doctor` command (popularized by Open Claw) checks download status, the engine, and each primitive so you can confirm the setup before relying on it.

## Commands & Code Mentioned

```
# Install is a single one-liner (uses uv under the hood to set everything up)

# Start an interactive chat with your default local model
jarvis

# Exit the chat
/quit

# Run a one-shot prompt against a specific local model
jarvis -m <model> "your prompt here"

# Health check — download status, engine, and all five primitives
jarvis doctor

# Initialize a ready-made preset (e.g. the code assistant)
# add --force to override an existing config
jarvis init code-assistant --force

# Benchmark latency, throughput, and energy use on your model
jarvis bench run

# Update OpenJarvis in place
jarvis self-update
```

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