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AI & agents✳

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drumih /

turbo-fieldfare

Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
9421#001
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clawkwork /

clawk

Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

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5130#002
marcelroed /

gigatoken

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

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362#003
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ctrlb-hq /

ctrlb-decompose

Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs

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263#004
jamesob /

local-llm

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

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202#005
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openlake-project /

openlake

Cuts Long Horizon Inference Costs by 50% via external KV Cache Offload

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200#006
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ronak-create /

FableCut

FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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196#007
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experientiallabs /

world-model-optimizer

Distill and serve small models with frontier quality for half the cost

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170#008
christopherkarani /

Espresso

Train and run transformers directly on Apple's Neural Engine

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163#009
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makerchecker /

MakerChecker

Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities

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126#011
vshulcz /

deja-vu

Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH

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126#012
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plasma-ai /

fractal

Fractal – recursive agent loops for complex, multi-step work

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110#013
xyTom /

coding-tools-mcp

Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code

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100#014
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NousC /

opennous

Nous – give GTM agents one context graph across your tools

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97#015
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ratel-ai /

ratel

Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloat

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96#016
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tiliondev /

fortress

Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

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91#017

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