79 field notes about tools. Quick, practical, no fluff.
Emdash lets a single developer run dozens of AI coding agents at the same time — each on a separate task, never stepping on each other's work.
A researcher published the full internal instructions shaping how Claude, ChatGPT, and others behave — all 120,000 characters of them.
Ponytail gives AI coding assistants a simple instinct: before writing anything, check if something already does the job. Fewer lines, faster results.
Pi is a new open-source coding agent from Flask's creator — 54,000 fans in days — proving that smaller, simpler AI can outthink the bloated alternatives.
Apple quietly shipped a way to run AI privately on any Mac — no cloud bills, no data leaving the device. Here's what that means for small builders.
Xiaomi just released a free AI coding agent that keeps its memory between sessions — and outperforms Claude Code on standard benchmarks.
OpenCode just became the most-used open-source AI coding agent on the planet — and it works with any AI model you already pay for.
Apple just made it possible to run powerful AI models entirely on your phone — offline, free, and without sending data to anyone's server.
Zyphra's new model reads images, text in photos, and visual documents — at a fraction of the usual cost, free to use and host yourself.
A new open-source tool shrinks the memory your AI search needs by 87% — without losing quality. Big news for anyone running AI on their own servers.
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.
Alibaba ran this AI code review tool internally for two years across tens of thousands of developers — and just made it free for everyone.
MisoTTS is a free, open voice model that reads emotion from audio context — giving AI-generated speech a warmth that most tools can't match.
FreeDomain lets anyone claim a proper web address at zero cost — and it already has half a million registered. No catch, no card.
A tiny open-source model that gives your AI a human-sounding voice — no expensive cloud subscription, no special hardware, just your laptop.
Supertonic 3 turns written text into studio-quality speech on your own computer — no subscriptions, no cloud, 31 languages out of the box.
Perplexity open-sourced a free scanner that checks your team's computers for compromised software packages and AI tool configs — without touching anything.
Microsoft Research built a browser agent that writes reusable scripts instead of clicking blindly — so every task you solve once, stays solved forever.
A free tool that pre-reads your entire codebase so AI coding agents stop wasting time searching — and cost you far less per session.
A free tool that reads your entire project and draws a living map of how everything connects — built for teams who inherited someone else's mess.
abogen converts EPUBs, PDFs, and text files into chaptered audiobooks with synced captions — offline, free, and surprisingly polished.
A tiny self-hosted tool stitches together 14 free AI services into one endpoint — giving small teams serious AI capacity without a billing account.
Cotypist finishes your sentences inline in almost any Mac app — and the whole AI runs on your machine, so your words never leave it. Free while in beta.
A free tool that turns Claude into a full research team — and won't let it invent fake sources, which is the part that actually matters.
Google open-sourced a scanner that checks if an AI model has had its safety training removed — in under a minute, no guesswork needed.
The code that decides what millions of people see on X every day is now publicly available — and small teams can actually use it.
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.
Sourcebot lets you run a private, searchable brain over all your code repositories — so your AI tools stop guessing and start knowing.
A new open-source tool flips the AI coding workflow: instead of prompting and hoping, you write a structured brief first — and the AI executes against it.
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.
The creator of Redis just released a tiny engine that runs one of the world's most capable AI models entirely on a high-end MacBook — no cloud, no subscription, no data leaving your desk.
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.
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.
A free, local tool that helps AI coding assistants find exactly what they need in your codebase — without wasting time (or money) reading everything.
Free iPhone email app that lets you swipe through Gmail one message at a time. Voice replies, smart filtering, learns what matters to you. iOS only, US and Canada.
A new open-source tool reads PDFs the way humans do — charts, tables, diagrams and all — instead of pretending they're just paragraphs.
A Google engineer published 20 ready-made instruction sets that stop AI coding tools from cutting corners — and they're free to use today.
A free, open library that teaches AI assistants to think like a cybersecurity expert — covering 26 areas of digital security across the frameworks big companies actually use.
A free, open-source tool that puts professional-grade financial research on your desktop — no $27,000 subscription required.
A tiny file you drop into any AI-built project that stops the agent from producing the same generic, purple-gradient website it made for everyone else.
Aqua Voice turns speech into text across any app — but the twist is it reads what's on your screen and matches your tone. Free tier plus a bonus with code DP-FH8V.
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.
A tiny config file inspired by one of AI's sharpest minds turns Claude Code from a confident intern into something closer to a careful engineer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The best download manager around went quiet in 2023 — someone just rebuilt it from scratch, and it's smaller, faster, and free.
Free, open-source Claude Code skill that turns any codebase into a knowledge graph. Ask questions in plain English, runs 71x cheaper, works with a local mode.
Molted gives AI agents their own managed mailbox — with built-in safety rails so they can't spam your contacts or leak sensitive data.
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.
A plain text file called DESIGN.md can now tell an AI agent exactly how a website should look — colors, fonts, spacing — so it builds interfaces that actually match your style.
TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.
OpenScreen does what expensive demo software does — zoom effects, clean backgrounds, polished exports — at zero cost and with no watermark.
A tiny open-source tool just went viral for solving something deceptively boring: measuring how tall a block of text is, without making the browser stutter.
Microsoft quietly released a voice AI toolkit that can transcribe a full hour of audio — speakers, timestamps, and all — without breaking it into pieces.
TREK is a free, self-hosted trip planner your whole team can use in real time — maps, budgets, weather, packing lists — and it lives on your own server.
OpenWork turns solo AI coding sessions into something a whole team can audit, repeat, and trust, with logs and shared workflows.
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.
A single command sends an AI agent across Reddit, YouTube, X, and five other sources — and brings back a grounded, cited summary of what people are actually saying in the last 30 days.
A new PDF parser runs entirely on your own machine, handles messy real-world documents surprisingly well, and doesn't need an internet connection or an API account.
A small Mac app quietly bridges the gap between Claude and your actual life — calendar, messages, contacts, reminders, and location included.
Project N.O.M.A.D. bundles an AI assistant, offline Wikipedia, maps, and medical references into a self-contained computer that runs anywhere — no Wi-Fi, no cloud, no tracking.
Claude Code collapses anything longer than a few lines when you paste, hiding most of it. One keystroke reveals the full input again.
A tiny open-source tool that shows you exactly how much of Claude's attention budget you've used — before you run out mid-task.
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.
100+ ready-made AI agent personas in one repo - frontend devs, brand managers, growth leads. Copy-paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool.
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.
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.
WorldMonitor pulls together global news, markets, and geopolitical signals into one screen — with AI analysis that runs entirely on your own machine.
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.
GitNexus turns any code repository into a visual map your AI assistant can actually read — privately, for free, in your browser.
Google quietly embedded a powerful AI forecasting model inside Google Sheets — and you don't need to know anything technical to use it.
A free tool that gives your AI coding assistant a real methodology — so it stops winging it and starts working like a disciplined engineer.
Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.
A new open-source tool lets AI navigate long documents the way an expert would — by understanding structure, not just scanning for similar words.
Someone published the secret instructions powering Cursor, Claude, Lovable, and 25 other AI tools — and it's the most revealing thing published about AI this year.
Anthropic's tool lets Claude read your entire project, make changes, and even publish updates — while you describe what you want in plain English.
100,000 requests a day, storage, scheduled tasks, and your code runs in 300+ cities worldwide. No monthly bill.
The AI tools and moves I actually use to win more business. A couple a week, nothing I haven't run myself.