Coding Agents

Agent harnesses, plugins, skill registries, Claude Code forks, and autonomous coding runtimes

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Claw-ED: The Lesson Planner That Remembers What You Taught Last Week
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Claw-ED: The Lesson Planner That Remembers What You Taught Last Week
An open-source AI co-teacher that learns your voice, works locally, and uses a temporal knowledge graph to turn curriculum history into better lesson planning.
9 min read
The Unix Middle Manager: Inside battysh/batty
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The Unix Middle Manager: Inside battysh/batty
How a Rust daemon uses tmux panes, git worktrees, and Maildir to orchestrate a hierarchical company of AI coding agents completely in the terminal.
8 min read
AI-Coding-Landscape: The Repository That Maps the Tools Replacing the Repository
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AI-Coding-Landscape: The Repository That Maps the Tools Replacing the Repository
A curated data repo that tracks coding models, agents, IDEs, and app builders, then exposes the whole landscape through CSVs, Hugging Face, and MCP.
8 min read
Minusbot: The AI Agent That Never Sees Your Secrets
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Minusbot: The AI Agent That Never Sees Your Secrets
A Bun-powered, Docker-isolated assistant platform that runs across Discord, Telegram, and the web while proxying sensitive credentials outside the model's view.
9 min read
deep-research: The research agent that wins by never opening a browser
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deep-research: The research agent that wins by never opening a browser
Aaron Francis turns web research into a straight-line pipeline: fan out search, canonicalize and dedupe URLs, fetch with retries, then synthesize a citation-grounded brief.
10 min read
The Token Miser: How tontinton/maki Built a 60 FPS Coding Agent in Rust
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The Token Miser: How tontinton/maki Built a 60 FPS Coding Agent in Rust
While standard AI tools burn tokens reading entire codebases, this native terminal UI uses AST parsing and local sandboxing to give LLMs exactly what they need.
7 min read
Forge: The Spec-First Operating System for AI Coding
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Forge: The Spec-First Operating System for AI Coding
ArenixDev/forge turns instructions into a governed hierarchy, strips ambiguity out of prompts, and makes AI prove it can follow the contract before code is trusted.
10 min read
Compiling the Hacker's Intuition: Inside shuvonsec/web3-bug-bounty-hunting-ai-skills
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Compiling the Hacker's Intuition: Inside shuvonsec/web3-bug-bounty-hunting-ai-skills
How a strictly orchestrated collection of Markdown files turns generic LLMs into economically-aware Web3 security auditors.
7 min read
lark-minutes-tasks: Turning meeting transcripts into executable work
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lark-minutes-tasks: Turning meeting transcripts into executable work
A tiny Claude Code skill that reads Lark Minutes, detects action cues, and pushes tasks into the Lark ecosystem with a human confirmation step.
8 min read
NotebookLM, Rewired: How `proyecto26/notebooklm-ai-plugin` Turns Google’s Research App into an Agent Skill
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NotebookLM, Rewired: How `proyecto26/notebooklm-ai-plugin` Turns Google’s Research App into an Agent Skill
A TypeScript CLI and Claude Code plugin that uses browser-auth plus reverse-engineered RPC calls to let AI agents create NotebookLM artifacts, run deep research, and manage sources without a public API.
10 min read
`systemprompt`: The Repo That Treats LLM Personality Like Software Architecture
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`systemprompt`: The Repo That Treats LLM Personality Like Software Architecture
A tour of Sharaku Satoh’s FLIP theory, where pseudo-personas, layered commands, and thinking methods turn system prompts into engineered behavior.
7 min read
ClawPress: The WordPress AI Agent That Behaves Like a Real Worker
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ClawPress: The WordPress AI Agent That Behaves Like a Real Worker
Not a chatbot layer, but a stateful admin system with queues, abilities, background slices, and a safety model built for autonomous site tasks.
8 min read
replicate/skills: The Repo That Replaces the SDK With Instructions
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replicate/skills: The Repo That Replaces the SDK With Instructions
A tiny skill file, an MCP bridge, and live schema checks turn AI agents into self-updating Replicate users.
8 min read
piv-speckit: PIV Spec-Kit: The Zero-Tolerance Framework for AI-Driven Development
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piv-speckit: PIV Spec-Kit: The Zero-Tolerance Framework for AI-Driven Development
Moving beyond vibe coding with an automated Prime-Implement-Validate loop that deletes code if it lacks a failing test.
`ml-hilbert`: The theorem prover that thinks in sketches first
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`ml-hilbert`: The theorem prover that thinks in sketches first
How a recursive Python orchestrator turns informal reasoning, Lean 4 verification, and `sorry` placeholders into a divide-and-conquer system for formal mathematics.
8 min read
`j5ik2o/ai-tools`: The Compiler That Teaches Agents How to Become Skills
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`j5ik2o/ai-tools`: The Compiler That Teaches Agents How to Become Skills
A deep dive into a repo that packages prompts, tests trigger rates, and turns AI behavior into something you can version, distribute, and improve.
10 min read
code-editing-agent: The Smallest Possible AI Developer Is Mostly a Loop
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code-editing-agent: The Smallest Possible AI Developer Is Mostly a Loop
A TypeScript repo that turns Claude into a file-editing agent with three tools, one tight orchestration pattern, and a surprisingly fragile idea at its center: surgical string replacement.
7 min read
dexter-kabu-jp: The Japanese Stock Analyst That Checks Its Own Work
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dexter-kabu-jp: The Japanese Stock Analyst That Checks Its Own Work
A terminal-native AI research desk for JPX data, valuation models, and a separate evaluator loop that helps keep finance answers grounded.
9 min read
ljg-skill-the-one: When prompt engineering becomes a workflow engine
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ljg-skill-the-one: When prompt engineering becomes a workflow engine
Li Jigang's `ljg-skills` treats analysis, rewriting, and visual synthesis as modular skills, then pushes them into a bento-card output.
12 min read
juice-69: The Smallest Agent That Talks Back Through Your Shell
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juice-69: The Smallest Agent That Talks Back Through Your Shell
ABRAXAS turns JSON prompts, shell output, and a self-copying loop into a closed system that feels less like an app and more like an experiment in autonomy.
8 min read
The Bureaucracy of Code: Unpacking snarktank.github.io
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The Bureaucracy of Code: Unpacking snarktank.github.io
Behind a minimalist zero-build landing page lies an ecosystem designed to force chaotic AI coding agents into strict, markdown-driven engineering workflows.
6 min read
selfmcp: The MCP Server That Lets an AI Write Its Own Tools
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selfmcp: The MCP Server That Lets an AI Write Its Own Tools
A tiny Python kernel, a versioned skill registry, and a subprocess executor turn a model into a system that can extend itself in real time.
8 min read
solid-rules: the markdown file that keeps AI from writing React in Solid
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solid-rules: the markdown file that keeps AI from writing React in Solid
Aiden Bai turns SolidJS's sharpest footguns into AGENTS.md guardrails, revealing a new kind of infrastructure: documentation written for code-generating agents, not humans.
6 min read
`ljg-skill-rank`: The Claude Code skill that reduces a domain to its bones
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`ljg-skill-rank`: The Claude Code skill that reduces a domain to its bones
Instead of summarizing a topic, it hunts for the irreducible generators, tests them against counterfactuals, and exposes the structure hiding under the noise.
8 min read
openclaw-solana-plugins: The Plugin That Gives an AI Agent Hands on Solana
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openclaw-solana-plugins: The Plugin That Gives an AI Agent Hands on Solana
A tiny TypeScript extension turns OpenClaw into a constrained trading agent with local key custody, Jupiter-powered swaps, and a built-in momentum score that encodes a very specific kind of crypto judgment.
8 min read
ljg-skill-fetch: The Skill That Teaches Claude How to Fetch the Web
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ljg-skill-fetch: The Skill That Teaches Claude How to Fetch the Web
`ljg-skill-fetch` is less a scraper than a decision tree. It turns Claude Code into a local, fallback-driven pipeline that can pull URLs and documents into clean Markdown.
9 min read
Untethering the Terminal: Inside claude-code-telegram-bot
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Untethering the Terminal: Inside claude-code-telegram-bot
How a TypeScript daemon turns everyday messaging apps into a mobile-first control plane for autonomous coding agents.
7 min read
pi-grump: The AI Sidecar That Hunts Slop in Real Time
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pi-grump: The AI Sidecar That Hunts Slop in Real Time
A grumpy terminal companion for the Pi coding agent, built to score risky changes, roast over-engineering, and keep AI code minimal enough to survive contact with reality.
8 min read
The CLI is the New SDK: Unpacking miniclaw
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The CLI is the New SDK: Unpacking miniclaw
How a minimalist Go daemon wraps Anthropic's terminal tool to build a self-modifying AI assistant without a single API call.
6 min read
Temper: The AI Coding Framework That Treats Context Like a Hazard
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Temper: The AI Coding Framework That Treats Context Like a Hazard
A deep dive into the wrapper that replaces open-ended prompting with staged intent, source checks, and feedback loops that make AI code feel less like improvisation and more like engineering.
11 min read
Mole: The Research Agent That Refuses to Guess, Overspend, or Leak Your Data
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Mole: The Research Agent That Refuses to Guess, Overspend, or Leak Your Data
A Go-based deep-research tool with a real budget ledger, verbatim quote enforcement, and a local-data boundary that keeps raw rows off the prompt.
8 min read
recursive-mode: The Repo-Native Operating System for AI Engineering
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recursive-mode: The Repo-Native Operating System for AI Engineering
A document-first workflow that moves agent state out of chat, into locked Markdown, and through a strict audit loop that humans can actually inspect.
10 min read
The Physicality of Smart Contracts: Inside Aptos-Tutorial
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The Physicality of Smart Contracts: Inside Aptos-Tutorial
How an early devnet learning journal perfectly captures the shift from Solidity's ledger-based tracking to Move's resource-oriented architecture.
6 min read
Etnamute: The Local AI Factory That Turns an Idea Into a Publishable Expo App
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Etnamute: The Local AI Factory That Turns an Idea Into a Publishable Expo App
A deep dive into the project that makes Claude act like a product manager, build manager, QA lead, and release engineer for React Native apps.
8 min read
threaded-map-reduce: The Small Python Library That Rewrites the Rules of CPU-Bound Threads
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threaded-map-reduce: The Small Python Library That Rewrites the Rules of CPU-Bound Threads
A lean map-reduce implementation for free-threaded CPython, built around chunking, low-lock coordination, and a new assumption: threads can finally do real work on CPU-heavy tasks.
8 min read
chenglou/claude-config-learnings: The Shell Hooks That Turn Claude Code Into a Permission Firewall
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chenglou/claude-config-learnings: The Shell Hooks That Turn Claude Code Into a Permission Firewall
A tiny Bash toolkit shows how Claude Code’s hook layer can override rigid permissions, repair dontAsk mode, and make safety decisions from live context.
8 min read
raultrades: Atelier: Claude, rebuilt as a native Mac app
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raultrades: Atelier: Claude, rebuilt as a native Mac app
Raul Riera's open-source client treats context as a living session, not a stack of tabs.
7 min read
appwrite/rules: The Generator That Turns Appwrite Best Practices Into AI Instructions
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appwrite/rules: The Generator That Turns Appwrite Best Practices Into AI Instructions
A deep dive into the AGENTS.md tool that teaches copilots how to build Appwrite apps the way Appwrite wants them built.
8 min read
autoresearch-ai-plugin: When Claude Code Becomes an Autonomous Experimenter
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autoresearch-ai-plugin: When Claude Code Becomes an Autonomous Experimenter
A Claude Code plugin that edits, measures, reverts, and remembers. It uses Git, JSONL, and confidence scoring to turn optimization into a closed-loop research system.
8 min read
coding-agents-arena turns code generation into a cross-examination
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coding-agents-arena turns code generation into a cross-examination
A Python framework where one agent proposes, another attacks, and the sandbox decides which code survives.
11 min read
Turing Machines as Python Dicts: Inside the tmsim Engine
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Turing Machines as Python Dicts: Inside the tmsim Engine
How a lightweight simulator replaces rigid academic DSLs with the elegance of functional head movement and "Dictionary-as-Code" architecture.
6 min read
Knit: Giving AI Agents a Nervous System
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Knit: Giving AI Agents a Nervous System
How a local-first Go runtime bridges the sensory gap between human UI feedback and agentic code modification.
azure-openai-to-responses Turns API Migration Into a Skill, Not a Rewrite
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azure-openai-to-responses Turns API Migration Into a Skill, Not a Rewrite
A migration toolkit for Python teams moving from Azure OpenAI chat completions to the Responses API, with scanners, compatibility checks, agent instructions, and rollout tooling.
8 min read
ljg-skill-clip: A clipboard pipeline for Claude Code
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ljg-skill-clip: A clipboard pipeline for Claude Code
A single SKILL.md file turns "save this" into a structured workflow, fetching web content, cleaning it, tagging it, and filing it into Org-mode with almost no friction.
7 min read
`ljg-skill-xray-prompt`: The Skill That Treats Prompts Like a Physics Problem
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`ljg-skill-xray-prompt`: The Skill That Treats Prompts Like a Physics Problem
A Claude Code Skill that breaks intent into Anchor, Vector, and Matrix, then renders the result as a visual report instead of a blob of advice.
12 min read
Loopwise: The Bash Framework That Turns Claude Code and Codex Into a Self-Checking AI Court
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Loopwise: The Bash Framework That Turns Claude Code and Codex Into a Self-Checking AI Court
A shell-native review loop where one model writes, another challenges, and the system refuses to trust either one blindly.
8 min read
founder-mode-cancer: The Personal Oncology Stack That Treats Cancer Like a Systems Problem
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founder-mode-cancer: The Personal Oncology Stack That Treats Cancer Like a Systems Problem
How one repository turns genomic data, single-cell analysis, neoantigen ranking, and structural validation into a patient-owned decision engine for layered cancer treatment.
10 min read
openclaw-onchain-quickstart: The repo that teaches an agent to wire its own onchain stack
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openclaw-onchain-quickstart: The repo that teaches an agent to wire its own onchain stack
A prompt-first quickstart for building a chat-native onchain operator that reads docs, installs skills, and acts with guardrails.
8 min read