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OSS2026-07-22 · source-backed
The per-port USB power utility is long-standing; the framing is new. The comment thread discussed it as a hardware-level cutoff for machines running autonomous agents with peripheral access. Single-source on the framing, and the tool itself isn't news, but the fact that people are now shopping for physical interrupts on agent workstations is.
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A DeepSeek Harness plugin for booting simulators, building, and driving the UI by accessibility identity, OCR text, or list rows, against both simulator and physical device over USB. Created August 19, 152 stars. GitHub It renders a streaming sidebar panel the developer can ta...
vladignatyev released brain-map-skill, letting an AI agent render a personal knowledge graph or Obsidian vault as a navigable brain map (20 points, 16 comments) (GitHub). Small, but it's a clean example of the agent-skills packaging trend: reusable, shareable capabilities scop...
sqliteai/waste (769 stars, created July 28) keeps only K3's 27.28GB trunk resident and streams the ~4% of experts activated per token off SSD, opening the undistilled model in 29.06GB of RAM. The counterintuitive result is the cache table: raising the expert cache from 17.32GB...
1,127 stars in eleven days. The whole pitch is "Permanent memory for AI agents. A 426-token prompt, a script, plug and play," positioned deliberately against the vector-database memory stack, and arriving the same week Tencent Cloud shipped a three-service Dockerized memory hu...
Specialized Code / Plan / Debug / Review / Ask agents across VS Code, JetBrains and CLI with terminal and browser control and a CI/CD autonomous mode. The differentiator is commercial, not technical: provider pricing with no markup, switchable mid-task, no API key to start. Pr...
Kits like TanStack/ai (type-safe, provider-agnostic streaming, tools, and agents across OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) and manifest let you swap providers, and increasingly the harness itself, without rewriting (TanStack). With the model market churning weekly and June releases slip...
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