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bitofabluetit /

knotreel

1d data to 3D topology, AI deepfakes to protien folding

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EXXETA /

exxperts

AI's memory. On your machine, under your control

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sheetmusic4j /

sheetmusic4j

Sheetmusic4j: A JavaFX library for rendering interactive sheet music

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nullean /

mermaider

Mermaider is a dotnet lib for generating Mermaid diagrams

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11#1210
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hail-hq /

hail

Hail.so – Open-source phone, SMS and email for agents and humans, v0.15

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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jmuncor /

tokentap

Tokentap – Print what your LLM is thinking

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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minio /

minlz

Minlz v1.2: Search compressed data with without decompression

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metacircu1ar /

audit

Audit: Skill library for agentic app audit

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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leomos /

pigiaminja

Pigiaminja: PostgreSQL extension that adds Jinja template support to COPY TO

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chicagobuss /

tracker

Tracker – a lightweight self-hosted document system for agents in Go

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hasmeni /

memex

Memex – mindmap alternative to linkding, kerakeep and readeck

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Randozart /

brief-lang

Brief Lang

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fiigii /

ai-comp

A compiler that solves Anthropic's VLIW optimization challenge

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vijaydeepsinha /

harbor

Harbor: An MCP gateway that connects AI clients to back end APIs via tools

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DougTrier /

MoreAI

More AI – Open-source model-agnostic AI desktop

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
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prisharai /

Interdict

Interdict: Stop agents from destroying production databases

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
11#1224

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