Hand a plain subtask to ornith (35B, local, free) on pop and verify the result before returning it. REQUIRES a check — a task that cannot state how it would be known to have worked is refused. Good for: extraction against a schema, classifying, reformatting. Bad for: judgment calls, code that must be correct, editing files — do those yourself.

Summarise text with ornith on pop. Free, local, and it does not spend Claude context on the source. Pass the text directly, or a url/urls to fetch first (fetched on pop). The default check is a real one: the summary must be substantially shorter than the source and not a copy of it.

Search the web (DuckDuckGo), read the top pages on pop, and have ornith summarise them — one call, no Claude context spent on the raw pages. THE ONLY SEARCH TOOL HERE, and deliberately: DuckDuckGo rate-limits hard, so searches are spaced and alternated between this Mac and pop. A throttle is reported as a throttle, never as "no results".

Download a file to pop (default) or to this Mac. Returns the path, byte count and sha256 — a download that reports success without those is not verified. Put it on pop when pop will use it (models, datasets, anything for the GPU); put it on the mac when you will open it.

How delegation has actually gone: jobs by kind, how often the check passed, and speed. Answers whether this server is earning its place.