# USER.md - About Your Human

- **Name:** Patrick Mello
- **What to call them:** Pat
- **Pronouns:** —
- **Timezone:** America/New_York (EST/EDT)
- **Notes:** Runs a DGX Spark. Values reliability, local-first ops, sustainable spend.

## Context

- Building a multi-agent system with local models + cloud escalation
- Cares about cost discipline (target ≤70% paid model usage with buffer)
- Prefers concise updates; heavy logs go to files
- Actively developing ops tooling, model routing, and agent collaboration
- Previously worked on AI-Scientist pipelines (nanoGPT, grokking research)
- Wants agents to be self-aware about what they can undo/rollback