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Naughty-Otters /

Teralexi

Now I Open source another desktop agent Teralexi

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Leyukaka /

fancontrol-rs

Fancontrol-rs rust windows fan controls specdrivendesigned open source

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gomilesf /

convergo

Convergo – plan/build review loops for coding agents

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flythenimbus /

bramble

Bramble – Local-first password manager

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10#1786
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jbunke /

painterly

Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI

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10#1787
vvedantb /

eva

Eva: Manage coding agents inside cloud connected repos

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10#1788
Saivineeth147 /

skeptic

A coding agent in 5 files, plus a skeptic that catches fake fixes

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buger /

jsonparser

The fastest JSON parser for Go

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10#1790
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hexorcist404 /

apotrope

Apotrope – Offline Windows security auditor (like Lynis, for Windows)

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10#1791
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imminent-technology /

mcp-console

mcp-console, an MCP CLI with Support for CIMD and DCR

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10#1793
Sunradiance /

whyline

Whyline – company memory engine (SQLite, BM25, MCP for Cursor)

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shehryarsaroya /

agenttransfer

AgentTransfer – open-source file transfer for AI agents (one Go binary)

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jacopobonomi /

venv_manager

Venv-manager, a Python venv runtime for Humans and AI agents

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grandimam /

hyre

Opensource resume evaluation LLM agents

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juansebastianl /

decypher-env

Decypher-env, an RL Env for breaking AES encryption

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10#1798
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bastion-computer /

bastion

Bastion – self-hosted VMs for background coding agents

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10#1799
rkique /

caveman-steer

Lower token usage through representation engineering

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