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MIT-licensed, types into any app via a hotkey, built entirely on the SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber APIs macOS 26 added for on-device streaming speech-to-text using models the OS ships and manages. No download, no API key, no network. Hard macOS 26 floor is the tradeoff. The precedent matters more than the tool: Apple now ships a managed local ASR model you can call instead of bundling Whisper yourself. (GitHub)
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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...
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced GStack and the repo hit 10,000 GitHub stars in 48 hours. That makes it one of the fastest-growing dev tools of 2026. GStack is a 23-tool MIT-licensed toolkit that turns Claude Code into role-based agents: CEO, Designer, QA, Release Manag...
An Apache-2.0 OpenAI-compatible gateway at 695 stars, with per-user and per-agent spend controls, that ingests OpenTelemetry traces from existing agent workflows, builds a simulation from them, and uses that to fine-tune an open-source model you own (GitHub). Rust-native, repo...
Before v4.1.15 on August 23, it only applied to tools also opted in individually, so flipping it appeared to do nothing. Anyone who left it on assuming it was inert has just widened their unattended tool surface across every connected server. (GitHub) Same release train fixed...
Released yesterday, one day after 0.21.0, v0.21.1 adds model call timeouts, run-scoped sandbox working directories, network-disabled Docker sandboxes and Modal sandbox resource options (GitHub). It also fixes the core honoring exact call-approval decisions and rejecting partia...
Blaizzy/nativ (1,163 stars, Swift, MIT, macOS 26+) comes from the mlx-vlm author and bundles that server into a SwiftUI app that discovers MLX models already in your HF cache. It exposes OpenAI-compatible chat, Responses, image, audio and model endpoints plus Anthropic Message...
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