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AIPointer ⦿ in Skales vs. standalone - which one is for you?

The cursor-anchored quick-ask overlay exists twice - as the free standalone app at aipointer.app and built into Skales. Same idea, different superpowers. A practical guide.

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Tutorials Jun 11, 2026

LLM Profiles - how Skales helps every model use tools properly

Tool-calling reliability varies wildly between models. LLM Profiles tune tool budget, prompts and sampling per model family - so even a small local model stops fumbling. Here is how it works.

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Tutorials Jun 10, 2026

Run Skales completely free - local models and real free-tier APIs

No paid plan, no GPU farm, no trial countdown. Three honest ways to run a full AI agent at zero cost - fully local with Ollama, free cloud tiers, or the ChatGPT subscription you already have.

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