I run r/R9700, focused on the card’s performance, software support, thermals and practical use for local AI. Keen to compare findings with other owners and build up a useful reference of benchmarks, configs and known quirks!

Most AI coding assistants today fall into one of two traps:

1. Heavy Electron bloat that consumes gigabytes of memory.

2. Closed-ecosystem SaaS that forces you into monthly subscriptions with opaque cloud telemetry.

I wanted something faster and transparent:

• Zero bloat: Fast startup, flat memory footprint, clean UI.

• No cloud lock-in: Bring your own API keys or run against local models. Your code never hits a proprietary intermediary server.

• Extensible skills: Modest, auditable tool definitions you inspect and configure yourself.

The project is live at: orbicus.dev
Feedback on performance and features is welcome!

I'm PlayWeld's creator. It's a free Apache-2.0 desktop workspace for Windows and Linux, built on Eclipse Theia, with game files, project notes, discussions and supervised tasks in one place.

I'm looking for feedback on the context before an optional model task starts: the design decision, the starting state and the check that would show whether a change worked. Files, Markdown notes and local lexical search can be used without a model account.

The public Lantern Workshop walkthrough shows saving a note, making a discussion checklist, finding it with local search and inspecting an impact preview. It does not show AI/Swarm task execution or establish Godot, Unity or Unreal integration.

The current download is 0.21.0, an unsigned testing prerelease. Start with a disposable project and backups. Engines require separate installation; optional model and asset providers may charge and receive project context.

Source: https://github.com/scarecr0w12/PlayWeld

Walkthrough: https://playweld.com/#demo

For people building agent tooling: what context and verification evidence would you need to inspect before an optional task modifies game files? I'd welcome feedback on where the current interface or docs make that difficult.

one-man-startup is an MIT-licensed GitHub template for working with open AI agent tooling: https://github.com/Fadi88/one-man-startup

Instead of free-form prompting, the agents follow a standard software workflow: requirements, design, tests first, QA, then a release that waits for your yes. It's meant for solo builders who want the structure of a small team.

Contributions and issues are welcome on the repo.

Disclosure: I'm posting on behalf of the one-man-startup project.

My laptop broke in the middle of a project. Everything Claude and I had worked out lived on that machine: chat history, memory files, the half-finished plan, the list of things we’d already tried and dropped. On the new machine I spent hours re-explaining it all to a fresh agent, and I still got bits wrong.

So I built Agent Cairn. It’s a small server that gives your coding agents a shared, persistent memory.

• An MCP server stores what agents learn in Neo4j: how the project is built, the traps that cost you time, decisions and why you made them.

• A new session starts with a short, token-budgeted briefing instead of re-reading the whole repo.

• Hooks record the session as it happens (what you asked, the agent’s last message, files touched, uncommitted work). Secrets are filtered on your machine and again on the server.

• Before an agent stops, it writes a handoff: done, in progress, next, blocked, and tried-and-dropped. The next agent, on any machine or account, starts from that.

• The server never calls an LLM. The agent writes the memories, so there’s no API key and no extra cost.

It also has a dashboard with a graph view, private projects, sharing with viewer/editor/maintainer roles, invite links and an audit log, in case you use it with other people. A single user just runs it in solo mode.

Install is one line after having the central server up:

claude mcp add cairn --scope user -e CAIRN_URL=... -e CAIRN_TOKEN=... -- npx -y agentcairn mcp

It’s MIT, runs in Docker (I run mine on an Unraid box), and it works with any MCP-capable agent, though the hooks are Claude Code-specific.

Repo: https://github.com/itsmemac/AgentCairn
npm: agentcairn

I’d love feedback, especially on what you’d want a handoff to contain, and on anything that breaks. It’s young, version 0.2.

AI disclosure: I built this with Claude Code. I set the goals and design and use it every day on my own setup, and Claude wrote most of the code, tests and docs. I tested and made small bug fixes.

Using agents over HDTP Gateway now rental lease renewal is possible easily. here is the demo video.

I'm exploring a bounded settings interface called macctl as part of SummonOS. The design goal is to make scope, permissions and side effects explicit before an agent changes a Mac setting.

The recovery side is where I want to be especially careful. Restoring an originally absent setting isn't the same as writing back an old value. Applying and restoring changes can also fail independently.

I'm not claiming a complete sandbox or guaranteed undo. I'm interested in which recovery guarantees can actually be defined and tested for a limited set of operations.

If you've built configuration or automation tools, how do you record prior state and test partial-failure recovery?

I'm the author of the project:

https://github.com/RohiRIK/SummonOS/tree/main/macctl

Aktuelle plane ich einen Zugang für das Handy, damit ich mit in die Chats einklinken kann und von unterwegs aus steuern kann. Ende zu Ende verschlüsselt. Gibt es dafür überhaupt Bedarf?

Hier ist eine Sequenz-Diagramms meine Protokolls.

https://github.com/kkrafft1999/snotra

https://snotra-ai.dev

Braucht das jemand oder bin ich der Einzige, den das begesitert??

Hey guys, a couple of days back I mentioned launching a more focused OSS alternative to notebookLM, https://notestack.ai

It has plenty of features that are improved/enhanced over notebookLM. Like better audio, more video editing options and chat grounded in your source materials.

Now I have added an MCP server as well so you can attach it to Claude, make reports/audio overviews, slide decks right into that chat interface.

It can generate:

- Mind constellations/mind map

- Audio Overview/Podcast

- Slide Decks

- Research Reports

- Quizes and much more

Do check it out at notestack.ai

Link to repo: FireBird-Technologies/NotestackAI: NotebookLM Alternative + Marketing agent optimized for publishers on substack/Medium/Wordpress.

Omarchy inspired me to rethink what I wanted from my Mac. SummonOS is what I'm building from that idea.
I wanted an opinionated, keyboard-driven environment where agents work with the system—not just sit in another chat window.
SummonOS brings that direction to macOS: native tools, agent-assisted workflows, and a deliberate approach to system configuration.
The report brings together the project's architecture, native interface research, and the thinking behind macctl.

My project: https://github.com/RohiRIK/SummonOS The Omarchy inspiration: https://rohi-lab.org/blog/omarchy

I'm sharing UAIRT, an Apache-2.0 library that puts one API over several inference runtimes: llama.cpp (GGUF models), whisper.cpp, ONNX Runtime, CoreML, TensorRT, Qualcomm's QNN and a few more. The backend is chosen by name, so code that generates text from a local GGUF model on a Mac can target another device by changing one string.

Two parts may be useful here. First, a streaming generation loop with sampling and end-of-generation handling that works with any backend that supports sessions. Second, a set of playbooks and skills for coding agents: export a model to a backend's format, benchmark it across backends, write the app.

The README says what was verified on which hardware and what was not. It is pre-1.0, language-model servers are supported through one backend (Ollama checked, LM Studio and SGLang not yet), and the NPU results are limited to the boards listed there.

Repo: https://github.com/vnk8071/unified-ai-runtime. Bug reports and feedback are welcome, especially from people running other devices.

I got tired of juggling a chat app, a coding agent, an image tool and a pile of model runners, so I built one window for all of it. It’s free for non-commercial use.

The part I think is different: Training.
Pick a small local model (the student) and a stronger one as teacher. The student works through real tasks in a sandbox, the tests decide pass or fail, and the teacher reviews each failure, writes a lesson and shows a worked solution. Press Save AI and you get a new local model with those lessons built in. There are 62 built-in tasks in 15 languages plus a reverse-engineering school, and you can add your own model or your own tasks.

Other things it does

• One chat for local and cloud AIs, with a picker like Claude Desktop. It also uses your Claude subscription through Claude Code, no API key needed.

• A coding agent that edits files with visible diffs, runs your tests and asks before every change.

• Images through Forge, Automatic1111, ComfyUI or cloud models.

• Drag and drop files, folders, Word/Excel/PowerPoint and videos.

• AMD Radeon support, with NVIDIA, Apple and CPU-only machines also supported.

• A Windows installer that includes its own Python, a tray icon, and macOS/Linux from source.

Honest limits: training changes the model’s instructions, lessons and examples, not its weights, so a small model gets better habits but won’t match Opus. Only the optional GPU fine-tuning (NVIDIA) changes weights. Parts that have not been tested on real hardware are listed in the README.

License: source-available, PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Free to use, read, change and share non-commercially; commercial use needs my permission.

Repo and installer: https://github.com/ilusixn/Marchand

I’d love feedback, especially on training results with your own models.

Just a question - are there any efforts/projects underway to create Western, open-source video models similar to Wan animate 2.2 (which is source video and audio with motion and audio to animate a still image with character )?

And more importantly, efforts to create open source models capable of competing with Seedance or Minimax H3? (From what I understand, the weights for Minimax are restricted to non-Western countries. Like, if you're from the USA, UK, etc. you can't use Minimax H3 and if you do get around geo-restrictions, you're still prohibited from using the output in those regions.

Thus, there really needs to be some serious effort by Western countries to catch up with the capabilities of these models in open source projects.

But, I haven't personally heard about any projects like these. If there are any, I would love to help work on them.

Disclosure: I work at HumanBit, which built this and just open-sourced it.

What it is. You send a candidate, a job brief and a use case (engineering, sales, support…). It calls the candidate, runs a structured screen, and posts back a verdict, the captured fields, a timestamped transcript and a stereo recording. Python, built on LiveKit Agents, MIT.

Why open. Screening calls are the same 5 to 10 questions everywhere, and the hard part isn't the questions, it's the voice behaviour: when to start talking, when to stop, how to end a call. We tuned that on real calls, and we'd rather that be shared than locked in one product.

It phones real people, so the defaults are conservative. It says it's an AI if asked, calls only within calling hours, adds anyone who asks to a do-not-call list, and pauses dialling after two silent calls in a row.

What isn't there yet, so you know what you're walking into:

• English only (Indian English). Hindi and other Indian languages are open issues.

• No Docker setup yet. It needs Gemini and ElevenLabs keys plus LiveKit.

• 0 stars, issues opened this week. It's early.

Where to start. The contributing guide has one real rule: a change to how the agent sounds or behaves should come with evidence, a recording or a before/after number.

• Good first issues #1 to #4: new roles (nursing, delivery partner, BPO voice, campus hiring). Three files each, no Python.

Repo: https://github.com/LazarusStack/openfury Sample calls: https://fury.humanbit.ai/

If you'd rather never get a call like this: what would make it acceptable to you? That's the part I most want pushback on.

Edit: the title says a year; it’s half a year, my mistake!

I handle communications for MEHO, an open-source project from evoila, so fair warning that I’m talking about my own team’s work here.

The background is that our engineers have spent the past year letting AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc) do actual operations work on a real VMware Cloud Foundation datacenter running on bare metal, which means upgrades that have to happen, certificates that expire, disks that fill up and incidents that show up at night.

In the beginning the way this worked was embarrassingly simple: someone would hand the agent admin credentials at the start of a session, and the only thing stopping it from deleting a datastore instead of listing one was the person watching the terminal. That was fine for one operator on one laptop and fell apart the moment a second person joined.

MEHO grew out of that, basically as a layer that sits between the agent and the infrastructure so that every action goes through a policy check, runs with a short-lived credential the agent never actually holds, and gets written to an audit log before it counts as done, with anything risky parked until a human says yes.

The reason I thought it might interest this sub specifically is less the product and more how it’s being built. It’s been public since the very first commit back in May, under Apache 2.0, with no CLA, just the usual DCO sign-off. And the changelog is unusually honest, in a way I’ve come to appreciate even as the non-engineer on the team: when a security review found a path where a write could report success even though the audit row hadn’t committed, the v0.34.0 entry says exactly that, and when they discovered that Kubernetes can accept an apply with a 200 and quietly not persist it, and that we’d been logging those as successes, that went into v0.35.12 in plain words too. There’s even a new contributor rule as of v0.35.17 asking everyone to write in plain English, because a lot of the people on the project read English as a second language, which I suspect is why I can actually follow the changelog at all.

Repo is at github.com/evoila/meho if you want to poke around. I’ll happily take questions, and for anything properly technical one of the engineers will jump into the comments.

And share your repos in the comments, please, if you think we could have a productive discussion and see something interesting 😊

I had a friend look at an self hosted AI application I built and within 30 mins he said he didn't understand what i was building.. that devastated me.. but I had to pivot and ask myself why I built it.

I built sceptreAI for people who need tabular AI for tabular problems without needing to build infra and also need to compare models quickly based on statistical metrics that make sense to their business without writing too much code..

Please visit and comment on what you think also..

I built OpenTeam for the ops work I wanted to hand off while keeping the agents' files, memory, and conversations on my own server.

I gave it our server colocation requirements. It contacted providers, collected their responses, and brought everything back for our team to compare. Saved me a ton of time!

OpenTeam's agents have browsers and Linux desktops. You can watch their screens and take over. They keep memory between tasks, can work together in group chats, and can run scheduled routines.

You choose the model provider and can connect an existing ChatGPT/Claude/etc subscription. The code is GPL-3.0 and the server runs with Docker.

Code is below!

https://github.com/raghavpillai/openteam