diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 025e635..60a2477 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # Agnes AI Data Analyst — Development Makefile
 
-.PHONY: help test lint dev docker update-openapi-snapshot
+LOCAL_DEV_COMPOSE := -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml -f docker-compose.local-dev.yml
+
+.PHONY: help test lint dev docker local-dev local-dev-down local-dev-logs update-openapi-snapshot
 
 help:
 	@echo "Available targets:"
-	@echo "  make test     Run test suite"
-	@echo "  make dev      Start FastAPI dev server"
-	@echo "  make docker   Build and start Docker Compose"
-	@echo "  make lint     Run ruff linter (if installed)"
+	@echo "  make test            Run test suite"
+	@echo "  make dev             Start FastAPI dev server (native uvicorn)"
+	@echo "  make docker          Build and start Docker Compose"
+	@echo "  make local-dev       Start Agnes with LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1 (auth bypass, no .env needed)"
+	@echo "  make local-dev-down  Stop and remove the local-dev stack"
+	@echo "  make local-dev-logs  Tail logs from the local-dev stack"
+	@echo "  make lint            Run ruff linter (if installed)"
 
 test:
 	pytest tests/ -v --tb=short
@@ -18,6 +23,21 @@ dev:
 docker:
 	docker compose up --build
 
+local-dev:
+	./scripts/run-local-dev.sh
+
+# docker-compose.yml declares `env_file: .env` on several services; compose
+# validates those paths even for profiled services that never start. Create
+# the file on demand so down/logs work even if the user never ran local-dev.
+.env:
+	@touch $@
+
+local-dev-down: .env
+	docker compose $(LOCAL_DEV_COMPOSE) down
+
+local-dev-logs: .env
+	docker compose $(LOCAL_DEV_COMPOSE) logs -f
+
 lint:
 	@ruff check . 2>/dev/null || echo "ruff not installed: pip install ruff"