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notvex

Notvex – encrypted local-first notes with SQLCipher and XChaCha20

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MosaicXR-AI /

mosaic-bridge

Mosaic Bridge, Unity Editor MCP with 90 research-paper algorithms

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amirali1390-bit /

ParsOS-NEXT

ParsOS Desk, a GUI operation system built with Cosmos in C#

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laixintao /

iredis

Iredis

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chshersh /

ccl

Ccl: Categorical Configuration Language

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cfitzgerald-pd /

effort-router

Effort Router: Intelligent /effort selection per Claude turn

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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bharadwaj-pendyala /

papa

Papa – open-source Hemingway-style readability linting for Markdown

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tunetank /

tunetank-mcp

MCP for Royalty-Free Music and Sound Effects

Creative toolsLicense unchecked
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EqoAI /

pbom-spec

Prompt Bill of Materials (PBOM) – an open standard for agentic workflows

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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byte271 /

mirrorframe

Mirrorframe – clone a web page into React, verified per-node by pixel diff

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elementmerc /

senbonzakura

Senbonzakura – remove the safety guardrails from open AI models

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
20#497
thelastpickle /

cassandra-reaper

Automated Repair for Apache Cassandra

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
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ttarvis /

multiaes

multiaes – hardware-accelerated, constant-time AES, two-file drop-in

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mkk2026 /

agentreg

Agentreg – DNS for AI agents (self-hosted, single Go binary)

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vertices-solutions /

orbit

Orbit – a local-first interface to Slurm

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AncientJames /

Scanwheel

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

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ayuhito /

safehttp

Safehttp – an SSRF-resistant HTTP client for Go

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20#503
gbouziden /

skillrail

Skillrail: One versioned source for AI agent skills, synced to every tool

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
20#504

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