I had the same trouble but I also had some success. I did a little write up on what I got to work.

https://joeldare.com/a-local-open-weight-model-builds-its-fi...

I think it can be made to work if you’re willing to tweak the prompts.

But, to be honest, I find my time to be worth more than the $20 I spend on a light weight frontier plan that can do this without the hand holding.

I want local to succeed, however, because of things like Anthropic stopping games based on other games.