Guild - A Free Autonomous Coding Agent That Escalates Through Gemma 4 Models

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Guild is a free, locally-running autonomous coding agent that works while you're away and backs off when you're present. The problem: cloud-based AI coding agents (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) require paid APIs, constant babysitting, and hog your machine. I wanted an agent that: Runs for free on local hardware Works autonomously on tasks without me watching Knows when I'm using the machine and throttles itself Gets