# Odysseus Cookbook **The Cookbook is [[Odysseus (AI)|Odysseus]]'s model-serving layer: it recommends models that actually fit your hardware, downloads them, and serves them with one click.** It's the answer to "which local model should I even run, and how?" The friction it removes: picking a local model usually means guessing whether your GPU and RAM can handle it, then wrestling with a serving framework. The Cookbook makes the choice hardware-aware. It looks at what you have and points you at models that will run, across a catalogue of **270+** options. ## What it does - **Hardware-aware recommendations.** Suggests models sized to your machine instead of letting you download something that won't load. - **Downloads and serving.** Pulls the weights and stands up a local endpoint, no manual framework setup. - **One-click deployment** from the catalogue, so the chat and agent surfaces immediately have a local model to talk to. This is what lets the rest of Odysseus stay local-first: the agents, [[Odysseus Deep Research|Deep Research]], and [[Odysseus Compare|Compare]] can all run against models the Cookbook serves rather than a cloud API. ## Related - [[Odysseus (AI)]] - [[Odysseus Compare]] - [[Odysseus Deep Research]]