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iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI is Apache-2.0 C#/.NET giving agents read/write control over .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx with no Microsoft Office install, no external dependencies, and no .NET runtime at execution time (GitHub). Its differentiator over python-docx-style libraries is a native formula engine with 350+ Excel functions evaluating on write, so agents get calculated values rather than formula strings, plus a rendering engine emitting HTML or PNG so a vision-capable agent can see its own output. Ships an MCP server for Claude Code and Cursor, a resident mode keeping documents in memory across multi-step workflows, and template merging from JSON across all three formats.
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Triple-stream retrieval (BM25 keyword, vector embeddings, knowledge-graph traversal) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion on the iii engine, with SQLite for state and an in-memory vector index, no external database. The economic claim: ~170K tokens/year (~$10) versus ~650K tokens...
v0.10.0 (~84.8k stars, Apache-2.0) ships no agent of its own and drives whichever CLI you already have, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, OpenClaw, Gemini, Kimi, Qwen, Cline, plus BYOK OpenAI-compatible endpoints, via od mcp install <agent>. It produces single-page HTML pro...
tt-a1i/archify is an MIT-licensed agent skill turning a repo or description into architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow and lifecycle diagrams, exported as self-contained HTML plus PNG, SVG, WebM and a share card. Its verifiability claim is mechanical rather than rhetoric...
The repo (1,861 stars, +314 today) ships a SKILL.md covering useful features from Go 1.0 through 1.27, including everything the modernize analyzer targets, so agents use max(a, b) over if-else, slices.Contains over manual loops, and Go 1.26 additions like new(42) and errors.As...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
Block's buzz jumped to 10,934 stars (+2,506 in a day) as a self-hostable Apache-2.0 relay built on Nostr where every message from a human, agent, workflow, or git event is a signed event in one log. Agents get their own keypairs and audit trails and participate as first-class...
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