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OpenClaw: a personal AI assistant in every chat app you already 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 5, 2026via github
AIself-hostingopen-source

One 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 2, 2026via github
AIagentsautomation

Your 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 1, 2026via github
automationAIopen-source

The AI That Tries to Break Into Your Own Systems — Before Someone Else Does

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 28, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceself-hosting

Your 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 26, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

Hugging Face built a robot intern that trains AI models on its own

An open-source AI agent that reads academic papers, finds datasets, and trains machine learning models — without anyone holding its hand.

Apr 25, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceautomation

AI 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 19, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

What 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 18, 2026via github
AIworkflowautomation

The 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 17, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

Google'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 15, 2026via github
open-sourceAItools

A 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 14, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

What 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 12, 2026
AItoolsworkflow

Teach 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 11, 2026via github
AItoolsworkflow

A 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 7, 2026via web
emailAIautomation

One 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 7, 2026via github
AIworkflowautomation

Drop 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 5, 2026via github
self-hostingopen-sourceAI

One 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 2, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

One 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 28, 2026via github
AIMCPworkflow

A 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 27, 2026via github
AIautomationweb scraping

Your 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 25, 2026via github
MCPAItools

The AI That Actually Does the Work

DeerFlow is an open-source AI agent that doesn't just answer questions — it finishes projects.

Mar 24, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

A 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 17, 2026via github
automationAIopen-source

Teaching 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 13, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

The 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 12, 2026via github
AIself-hostingopen-source

A 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 11, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

An 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 9, 2026via github
AIautomationworkflow

AI 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 8, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

What 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 7, 2026via github
AIautomationopen-source

The 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 6, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcesecurity

Your Brand on Reddit, Without the Hours

A free, set-it-and-forget-it system that watches Reddit for your brand name so you don't have to.

Mar 5, 2026
automationworkflowtools

The 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 3, 2026via github
AIopen-sourceautomation

Your 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 2, 2026via github
AIopen-sourcetools

Your 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 28, 2026
AItoolsworkflow

The 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 26, 2026via github
automationself-hostingopen-source

Windmill 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 23, 2026
open-sourceworkflowautomation

n8n: 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 22, 2026
workflowautomation

Scheduled 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 21, 2026
databaseautomation

Your 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 20, 2026
automationopen-sourceAI agents

Let 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.

Feb 19, 2026
automationAIemail