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97 field notes about automation. Quick, practical, no fluff.
The Browser That Remembers Every Site It Visits
Webcmd is an AI browser agent that builds its own memory of every site it visits — so each return trip is faster, cheaper, and smarter than the last.
Sep 14github№ 221Blume Watches You Code and Writes the Rules
Blume sits beside your AI coding assistant, notices when you keep correcting it, and quietly turns those corrections into permanent rules — all on your machine.
Sep 12original№ 219Google's Agent That Tests Android Apps in English
Google open-sourced ARTEMIS, an AI agent that takes plain-English instructions and runs real Android app tests — no technical setup, 99%+ success rate.
Sep 10github№ 216The AI That Gets Cheaper the More You Use It
Experiential watches how your AI tools work, then quietly trains a smaller model that handles your routine tasks — cutting costs by up to 97%.
Sep 7github№ 210One Skill, Every AI Tool Gets It Instantly
SkillKit lets you teach a behavior to one AI tool and instantly share it across 40+ others — no repetition, no drift between tools.
Aug 31github№ 209Architecture Diagrams From Plain English
Archify lets an AI agent read your codebase and draw a verified, interactive map of how it actually works — no design tools needed.
Aug 30github№ 207530 Image Prompts, Built to Be Reused
A free library of 530+ reverse-engineered image prompts that work like building blocks — so your AI visuals stay consistent without starting from scratch each time.
Aug 28github№ 206One Prompt, One Video, No Editor
MoneyPrinterTurbo turns a single topic into a finished short video — script, footage, voice, subtitles — with no editing software needed.
Aug 27github№ 204Before You Install That AI Skill, Scan It
NVIDIA built a free scanner that checks AI agent skills for hidden dangers before you run them — because one in four have real vulnerabilities.
Aug 26github№ 203Your Location History as a Travel Film
A free tool turns years of forgotten Google location data into a watchable travel film — privately, on your own computer, no uploads needed.
Aug 25github№ 200Your AI Agent, Your Browser, No Conflicts
ego-lite lets your AI agent use your real browser — logged-in accounts and all — without ever touching your open tabs.
Aug 23github№ 199One Agent to Brief, a Crew to Execute
Firstmate lets you talk to one AI while a whole crew of agents works behind the scenes — handling routine noise and escalating only what needs you.
Aug 22github№ 197Your AI Agent Can Now See the Live Website
A real browser that runs inside your terminal so your AI agent can click, scroll, and read any webpage — no window switching, no extra screens needed.
Aug 20github№ 196Cursor Origin: AI Agents That Ship Their Own Code
Cursor just launched its own version control platform — so AI agents can write code, review it, and publish it without ever switching tools.
Aug 19github№ 195Your Team Chat, but AI Agents Live There Too
Cumora is a team chat app where AI agents don't just answer questions — they show up, remember things, and start conversations on their own.
Aug 18github№ 192AI Agents That Log Into Apps Without Seeing
Open Connector lets AI agents connect to Gmail, Slack, Stripe and 1,000+ services — without ever touching your actual credentials.
Aug 16github№ 189Brigade: Your AI Team, Running on Your Machine
Brigade puts a crew of AI agents on your computer — they browse, write emails, attend meetings, and message you like a colleague would.
Aug 13github№ 186A Free AI Analyst That Watches Markets Daily
An open-source tool that reads global stock markets every morning and sends you an AI-written summary — no subscription, no server, no ongoing cost.
Aug 10github№ 185Your iPhone, Controlled by an AI Agent
A small open-source tool lets any AI agent tap, scroll, and type on your iPhone — through your Mac, no hacking required.
Aug 9github№ 183The AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Brain
Prime Agent is an open-source coding agent that doesn't just follow instructions — it remembers, inspects its own work, and adjusts its thinking mid-task.
Aug 7github№ 182Any Document, Clean Text, No Cloud Needed
Firecrawl's new open-source tool converts Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and more into clean text — blindingly fast, and your files never leave your machine.
Aug 6github№ 181The AI Agent That Learns From Real Hackers
A plug-in that gives AI coding agents tested, real-world playbooks for security analysis — and gets smarter every time someone shares a case.
Aug 5github№ 178YC Open-Sourced the AI System Running Its Company
Y Combinator just released the internal AI agent system it used to run accounting, legal, and engineering — and to build itself.
Aug 3github№ 179Headless Browsers for AI Agents: Pick One Per Layer
Roundups rank engines, drivers, hosting and agent frameworks in one list, so the advice collapses. Here's the layer map, the licences, and how to choose.
Aug 3original№ 177Your AI Product Has a Back Door
PromptTrace is a free lab where you can watch real AI models get tricked — and finally understand what you're actually shipping to customers.
Aug 2x№ 171Your Logins, Their Own Tab: ego-lite
ego-lite gives every AI agent its own browser space inside your real Chrome session — so it uses your logins without ever touching your tabs.
Jul 28github№ 159A Trading Agent You Actually Own
Vibe-Trading is an open-source AI agent from HKU that turns plain-English instructions into real trades — for a fraction of what black-box bots charge.
Jul 16github№ 157Test Your Website in Plain English, Free
BrowserBash lets you test any website by typing a normal sentence — no technical setup, no monthly fees, and a free video replay of every run.
Jul 14github№ 155A Guard Dog for Your AI's Shopping Cart
Refuse watches every software package your AI installs and quietly blocks the ones with known security holes — before they touch your system.
Jul 12github№ 153Your Job Search, Handled by Claude
A free, open-source tool lets Claude write your tailored CV and cover letter, then check it won't get filtered out before a human ever reads it.
Jul 10github№ 152An AI That Tries to Break Your App First
Strix is an open-source AI agent that probes your website for real security holes — the same ones a hired hacker would look for, at near zero cost.
Jul 9github№ 151Your CV, Rewritten by Two AIs Fighting Over It
An open-source tool uses two Claude agents — one writes your CV, one tears it apart — so only the best version reaches recruiters.
Jul 8github№ 150Your AI Can Now Edit Word and Excel Files
OfficeCLI lets AI agents read, edit, and build real Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files — no Microsoft Office required, no setup headaches.
Jul 7github№ 148T3MP3ST: AI That Tries to Break Your AI
A self-hosted platform that sends swarms of AI agents to attack your AI product — so you find the weak spots before your users or competitors do.
Jul 5github№ 147A Trick That Cuts Claude API Bills by 60%
A small open-source tool converts Claude's text inputs into tiny images — and because of how Claude charges for images, that can slash your bill by more than half.
Jul 4github№ 146Any Website Can Now Have an AI Copilot
Alibaba released a free tool that lets users control any website with plain English — no extensions, no rewrites, just one line of code.
Jul 3github№ 145Your Codebase, Explained to AI Agents
OpenWiki auto-writes the internal documentation that AI coding agents need to navigate your project — and keeps it fresh every day.
Jul 2github№ 143When AI Agents Get Their Memory Poisoned
A free, open-source tool now acts as a bodyguard between your AI agent and its memory — quietly blocking attacks before they cause real damage.
Jun 30github№ 142Ask AI to fix a bug, right inside GitHub
OpenTag lets you @mention an AI agent in GitHub or Slack and it does the work there — no copy-pasting, no switching tabs, no extra logins.
Jun 29github№ 140Four AI analysts, one investment thesis
AI Berkshire sends four independent Claude agents to research the same company at once — then a fifth one reconciles what they found.
Jun 27github№ 139Run Five AI Coders at Once, Compare Results
Orca is a free desktop app that runs multiple AI coding agents side by side — so you can pick the best result instead of hoping for one.
Jun 26github№ 138The AI Code Bouncer That Ships Clean PRs
No-mistakes sits between your AI coding assistant and GitHub, quietly refusing to ship anything until it passes a full quality check.
Jun 25github№ 137The Google Tool That Outlived Its Creator's Job
A Google engineer built the fastest way to connect AI agents to all of Google Workspace — then got fired. The tool still works, and it's worth knowing about.
Jun 24github№ 131OpenMontage: Your Prompt Becomes a Finished Video
OpenMontage is an open-source system that takes a plain-language prompt and handles the research, script, footage, editing, and music — delivering a finished video.
Jun 18github№ 125The AI Coder That Remembers Everything
Xiaomi just released a free AI coding agent that keeps its memory between sessions — and outperforms Claude Code on standard benchmarks.
Jun 12github№ 120Read the Internet for Free, No API Keys Needed
Agent-Reach lets your AI assistant browse Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and more without paying platform fees — a small tool with a surprisingly large surface area.
Jun 7github№ 115Cut Your AI Bill Without Touching Anything
Headroom quietly compresses what your AI reads before it reads it — slashing API costs by up to 95% without changing how anything works.
Jun 2github№ 111AI Agents Work Best When They're Not Fully
A widely-shared principles guide reveals that the most reliable AI products are mostly structured code, with AI sprinkled in at precisely the right moments.
May 29github№ 109Webwright Review: Reusable Browser Automation Scripts
Webwright is Microsoft's open-source browser agent for turning long web tasks into inspectable, rerunnable Python and Playwright scripts.
May 27github№ 107Websites That Talk to AI Agents Directly
Google's new WebMCP standard lets AI agents interact with websites cleanly — no guessing, no fumbling — and Booking.com, Shopify, and Expedia are already on board.
May 24original№ 105Turn Any Book Into an Audiobook, Free
abogen converts EPUBs, PDFs, and text files into chaptered audiobooks with synced captions — offline, free, and surprisingly polished.
May 22github№ 100OpenWA Review: Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
OpenWA is a free, open-source WhatsApp API gateway with REST endpoints, webhooks, multi-session support, a dashboard and Docker deployment.
May 19github№ 97Your WiFi Is Already Watching the Room
A $9 sensor and your existing WiFi router can detect people, measure breathing, and estimate body posture — through walls, in the dark, no camera needed.
May 16github№ 95The AI that actually knows your week
OpenHuman quietly reads all your tools every 20 minutes and builds a private memory of your work — so it never starts from scratch.
May 14github№ 91The Browser That Looks Human (Because It Is)
CloakBrowser is a free, open-source browser built for AI agents that need to browse the web without getting blocked — and it costs nothing where competitors charge hundreds a month.
May 10github№ 89It Watches You Work, Then Writes the Instructions Itself
A small Mac app sits quietly in your menu bar, watches you repeat the same task three times, and then writes a detailed playbook your AI agent can follow — in your voice, with your logic baked in.
May 8github№ 88A coding agent that works all night for almost nothing
An open-source AI agent that can read and edit an entire codebase in one sitting — at a fraction of the cost of the big names.
May 7github№ 85When One AI Agent Isn't Enough
Ruflo turns Claude into a self-organizing team of AI specialists that split the work between them, and it's free to run yourself.
May 5github№ 86OpenClaw: one AI assistant in every chat app you use
Self-hosted AI gateway that puts the same assistant into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and more. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs on your own machine.
May 5github№ 81One call, many agents working in parallel
Sandcastle lets you spin up multiple AI coding agents at once — each working in its own isolated space — and then quietly merges everything back together.
May 2github№ 80Your task list, running itself
OpenAI open-sourced a tool that turns a project management board into a team of coding agents — each ticket gets its own worker that runs until the job is done.
May 1github№ 76The AI that breaks into your systems before attackers do
PentAGI is an open-source AI agent that runs full security tests on your systems autonomously — no specialist required to set it in motion.
Apr 28github№ 74Your AI team clocks in while you watch
Wanman runs a coordinated crew of AI agents on your own machine — each with a role, each talking to the others — while you sit back and watch it happen.
Apr 26github№ 73Hugging Face built a robot intern that trains AI models
An open-source AI agent that reads academic papers, finds datasets, and trains machine learning models — without anyone holding its hand.
Apr 25github№ 66AI can now edit video by writing HTML
A new open-source tool turns plain web code into rendered video — which means AI agents can finally produce video content without touching a timeline.
Apr 19github№ 65What if your AI developer never forgot a step?
Archon gives AI coding tools a fixed process to follow — so every task runs the same way, every time, no matter the model's mood.
Apr 18github№ 64The Agent That Teaches Itself
A tiny AI agent that gets smarter and cheaper every time it completes a task — and reportedly built its own codebase without a human ever touching the keyboard.
Apr 17github№ 62Google's AI Knows What Your Files Really Are
Google open-sourced the AI it uses to scan billions of Gmail and Drive uploads — and it identifies file types with 99% accuracy in the blink of an eye.
Apr 15github№ 61A text prompt walks in. A finished video walks out.
An open-source project that works like a tiny film studio on your computer — you describe a video, it writes the script, plans the shots, and produces the whole thing while you sleep.
Apr 14github№ 59What if your docs actually worked?
A small YC-backed agency figured out how to fix broken developer docs in weeks, not months — by letting AI do the tedious parts and humans do the thinking.
Apr 12original№ 58Teach Your AI to Speak Less, Think More
A tiny add-on makes Claude respond like a caveman — and somehow that cuts costs by up to 87% while keeping every useful answer intact.
Apr 11github№ 53A real email address for your AI agent
Molted gives AI agents their own managed mailbox — with built-in safety rails so they can't spam your contacts or leak sensitive data.
Apr 7web№ 54One person. One AI. 740 job offers evaluated.
Someone built an AI-powered job search system for themselves, used it to evaluate 740 offers and write 354 tailored CVs — then got hired as Head of Applied AI.
Apr 7github№ 51Drop a receipt. Get tidy accounts.
TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.
Apr 5github№ 48One tool turned a solo coder into an overnight dev team
A small open-source tool called OMX quietly turned a single AI coding assistant into a coordinated team of agents — and someone used it to do a week's worth of work in one night.
Apr 2github№ 43One Plugin, Thirty-Two AI Teammates
A new plugin for Claude Code gives you an instant team of 32 specialized AI agents — architect, designer, librarian, and more — without writing a single line of setup.
Mar 28github№ 41A Query Language That Speaks Human, Not Code
TinyFish built infrastructure for AI agents to interact with the live web at scale — and AgentQL lets you point at any element on any page using plain English instead of brittle CSS selectors.
Mar 27github№ 38Your Calendar, Contacts, and Messages — Inside Claude
A small Mac app quietly bridges the gap between Claude and your actual life — calendar, messages, contacts, reminders, and location included.
Mar 25github№ 37The AI That Actually Does the Work
DeerFlow is an open-source AI agent that does not just answer questions, it plans the work and finishes whole projects on its own.
Mar 24github№ 29A browser built for robots, not humans
Lightpanda runs 11x faster than Puppeteer and uses 9x less RAM. An open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and web scraping.
Mar 17github№ 25Teaching AI Agents to Use Desktop Software
A new tool lets AI agents operate desktop software like GIMP or Blender the same way a human would — but faster, quietly, and without anyone touching a mouse.
Mar 13github№ 24The AI Agent That Remembers What It Learned
Hermes Agent remembers past conversations, learns from mistakes, and connects to Slack, Discord and Telegram. Free, self-hosted, built by Nous Research.
Mar 12github№ 23A Full AI Team, Ready to Hire
100+ ready-made AI agent personas in one repo - frontend devs, brand managers, growth leads. Copy-paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool.
Mar 11github№ 21An AI that runs 100 experiments while you sleep
Andrej Karpathy just released a tiny tool that lets an AI agent run experiments on its own, all night, and hand you the results by morning.
Mar 9github№ 20AI agents that can't leak your passwords — even if tricked
IronClaw is an open-source runtime that lets AI agents do real work without ever seeing — or accidentally exposing — your API keys and secrets.
Mar 8github№ 19What if your whole company was run by AI agents?
Paperclip lets you build a fully staffed AI organisation — with a real org chart, budgets, and accountability — that actually runs itself.
Mar 7github№ 18The AI That Tries to Break Your App Before Anyone Else Does
Shannon is an open-source AI that actually attacks your own web app to find real security holes — not just a list of warnings, but proof that something is broken.
Mar 6github№ 17Your Brand on Reddit, Without the Hours
A free, set-it-and-forget-it system that watches Reddit for your brand name and pings you when someone mentions it, so you don't have to.
Mar 5original№ 15The invisible wall that keeps AI agents from breaking things
Alibaba just open-sourced the safety layer that lets AI agents actually do things — without putting your real systems at risk.
Mar 3github№ 14Your WiFi Router Can Already See You
A new open-source project turns an ordinary WiFi router into a sensor that can detect where people are, how they're breathing, and whether someone has fallen — no camera required.
Mar 2github№ 12Your Spreadsheet Can Now See the Future
Google quietly embedded a powerful AI forecasting model inside Google Sheets — and you don't need to know anything technical to use it.
Feb 28original№ 10The Web Scraper That Fixes Itself
Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.
Feb 26github№ 7Windmill turns small automations into proper tools
An open-source platform that takes your team's little scripts and automations and gives them a proper home — with scheduling, logs, and a real interface.
Feb 23original№ 5n8n: connect everything, pay nothing
n8n lets you automate anything between your apps — Slack, email, CRM, spreadsheets. It's free, it's visual, and you own the whole thing.
Feb 22original№ 4Scheduled tasks that run themselves — inside your database
Supabase can run tasks on a schedule — daily reports, data cleanup, reminders — without any extra tools or monthly fees.
Feb 21original№ 3Your own Zapier, for free — and it talks to AI
Activepieces is like Zapier but free, open source, and its 280+ integrations work directly with AI agents like Claude.
Feb 20original№ 1Let AI write your follow-ups
Your CRM knows when you last talked to someone. AI can use that to write follow-ups that actually sound like you.
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