ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI BOTH MISSED THIS. Someone just open-sourced... one SDK that gives AI agents a mouse, keyboard, and screen across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It's called CUA. Same code drives a local VM or a cloud sandbox regardless of the OS. Your agent sees the screen, clicks, types, and runs shell commands like a real user. > Benchmark against OSWorld and ScreenSpot > Export trajectories for model training > Near-native performance on Apple Silicon No separate SDK per OS. No infrastructure headache. 100% Free. Open Source.show more

someone just open-sourced their own neuro-sama. and it might... be better than the original. it's called airi. a fully autonomous ai companion that talks to you in real time, plays minecraft and factorio with you, chats on discord and telegram, and has a live2d/vrm avatar body. runs entirely on your machine. → real-time voice conversations, speech recognition → animated avatar with auto-blink, eye tracking, idle animations → persistent memory across sessions → local inference via webgpu, no api calls needed supports 30+ llm providers, openai, claude, gemini, deepseek, ollama, groq, mistral, xai, local models. swap the brain with a config change. runs on native cuda and apple metal for real gpu acceleration. 17.5k stars. 101 contributors. 46 releases. 100% free. open source.show more

this might be the E2B killer for AI agent... sandboxes. forkd is an open-source microVM sandbox runtime built on Firecracker, made for AI agent fan-out, code interpreters, eval harnesses, anything that spins up a lot of short-lived sandboxes. before: every sandbox cold-boots its own VM and re-imports the whole runtime from scratch, numpy, torch, JIT compilation, model weights, all of it. now: forkd boots one parent VM once, warms it with your runtime already imported, then forks children from that snapshot using copy-on-write memory. the repo's own benchmark: spawning 100 sandboxes takes 101ms with forkd, versus 759ms for a raw Firecracker cold-boot, and well over a minute for Docker or gVisor. the SDK is a literal drop-in for E2B's Python client, so if you're already running code-interpreter agents on it, swapping the import line gets you a self-hosted runtime with the same isolation model at a fraction of the per-sandbox cost. pre-built recipes ship for e2b-style code interpreters, Jupyter kernels, SWE-bench coding agents, and Playwright browser fan-outshow more

New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early... access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the model, and open source matters here because you can inspect the loop, run it on your own infrastructure, and swap to the latest or cheaper models. TrueForge handles the runtime work that makes an agent reliable. It drives the tool-calling loop, manages context, coordinates subagents, and executes code in a sandbox, with any model you choose. Every tool call re-sends the growing context to the model, so in practice the harness controls most of what an agent costs to run. A few things stood out from my testing and their published benchmarks. Vendor-Neutral by design. It runs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models alongside open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek. Model routing is a setting, and you can send each task to the model that fits it. On a 14-task enterprise agent benchmark, it matched the accuracy of Claude Managed Agents running the same Opus 4.8 model at roughly 30% lower cost per run (3.8M tokens vs 10M for the same answers). Routing the same tasks to GLM-5.2 held accuracy and brought cost down by about 75%, around $3 per run instead of $12. Fully self-hosted and Open Source (MIT License). I had it running locally with one command, with sandboxed code execution working out of the box. It's time to own your agent harness. Thanks to TrueFoundry for partnering on this post.show more

Governments pay millions for this kind of system. Someone... just open-sourced it for free. It's called Crucix. It watches the entire world and texts you when something changes. Pulls from 26 live sources every 15 minutes: - Satellite fire detection, flight and vessel tracking - Conflict zones and economic indicators - Live crypto and market prices - Social sentiment from Telegram intel channels It's two-way. Pushes alerts to Telegram and Discord. Text it back, type /brief for a summary. No cloud, no subscription. Runs on your own machine. 100% Free. Open Source.show more

I found this last night and I have not... stopped thinking about it. HERMES JUST LAUNCHED HERMES DESKTOP. 100% FREE. It is a free desktop app that gives Hermes Agent a proper interface. One place for everything. What is inside: ↳ Auto install and setup, no terminal needed ↳ Streaming chat with token tracking ↳ Multiple agent profiles ↳ Memory you can actually see and edit ↳ 14 tool categories including web, browser, image gen, and voice ↳ Scheduler for automated tasks ↳ 16 messaging gateways including Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and Signal ↳ Full conversation history with search ↳ Backups and logs in one settings screen Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, Groq, Ollama, and more. Hermes Agent is the brain. Hermes Desktop is the cockpit. Free. Open source. Mac, Windows, and Linux.show more

Microsoft presents Windows Agent Arena Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents... at Scale discuss: Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable potential to act as computer agents, enhancing human productivity and software accessibility in multi-modal tasks that require planning and reasoning. However, measuring agent performance in realistic environments remains a challenge since: (i) most benchmarks are limited to specific modalities or domains (e.g. text-only, web navigation, Q&A, coding) and (ii) full benchmark evaluations are slow (on order of magnitude of days) given the multi-step sequential nature of tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce the Windows Agent Arena: a reproducible, general environment focusing exclusively on the Windows operating system (OS) where agents can operate freely within a real Windows OS and use the same wide range of applications, tools, and web browsers available to human users when solving tasks. We adapt the OSWorld framework (Xie et al., 2024) to create 150+ diverse Windows tasks across representative domains that require agent abilities in planning, screen understanding, and tool usage. Our benchmark is scalable and can be seamlessly parallelized in Azure for a full benchmark evaluation in as little as 20 minutes. To demonstrate Windows Agent Arena's capabilities, we also introduce a new multi-modal agent, Navi. Our agent achieves a success rate of 19.5% in the Windows domain, compared to 74.5% performance of an unassisted human. Navi also demonstrates strong performance on another popular web-based benchmark, Mind2Web. We offer extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of Navi's performance, and provide insights into the opportunities for future research in agent development and data generation using Windows Agent Arena.show more

CCleaner used to be the default way to keep... a Windows machine fast. Then it got bought, stuffed with ads and bundled crapware, and in 2017 one release was compromised and shipped malware to over 2 million people. Millions still install it every month because nothing else has really replaced it. So, a team called AdventDev just built a free, open-source replacement. It's called Kudu. Open the app and you get one dashboard for the whole machine. > System cleaner for temp files, logs, caches, and crash dumps. > Browser cleaner across every major browser. > Gaming cleaner for launcher and shader caches. > Registry cleaner for broken and orphaned entries. > Startup manager that shows the actual boot impact of each program. > Disk analyzer with an interactive treemap, so you can see where 40GB quietly disappeared to. > Debloater that rips Windows bloatware out. > Program uninstaller that also removes the leftovers other uninstallers leave behind. Then it does the parts CCleaner never did. A malware scanner with signature matching, heuristic analysis, and Windows Defender integration. A privacy shield that lets you flip 30+ Windows privacy settings from one screen: telemetry, ad ID, Cortana, tracking. Secure delete that overwrites files with random data before removing them, so nothing can recover them later. There's a real-time performance monitor with per-core CPU, memory, disk, network, and S.M.A.R.T. drive health. A one-click restore point before every clean, so you can roll back. Scheduled scans. A CLI mode for people who don't want a GUI. Support for 30 languages. Native app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Intel and Apple Silicon builds. No ads, no upsells, no telemetry, no account. The cleaning rules are plain JSON files, so if your favorite app isn't covered yet, you can add support for it without writing a line of code. MIT license. 100% Open Source. Repo:show more

🚨 Alibaba just open sourced a GUI agent that... lives inside your webpage and controls it with natural language. It's called Page Agent and it's not a browser extension. It's pure JavaScript no Python, no Puppeteer, no headless browser, no screenshots. Just one script tag and your web app understands natural language. Here's what it actually does: → Embed it with a single tag or npm install → Control any web interface with plain English commands → Text-based DOM manipulation no OCR, no vision models needed → Bring your own LLM (GPT, Claude, Qwen, anything) → Ships a built-in UI with human-in-the-loop support → Turn 20-click ERP/CRM workflows into one sentence → Optional Chrome extension for multi-tab agent tasks → Works on any web app SaaS, admin panels, internal tools Companies are charging $30/month for AI copilots built on this exact idea. This is 3 lines of code. Your users. Your interface. The AI copilot layer for every web app just got open sourced. 1.6K stars. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)show more

MANUS AI: HYPE VS. REALITY 🔍 Yichao 'Peak' Ji... (co-founder of ) confirmed rumors: ✅ Built on Anthropic Claude Sonnet, not their own foundation model ✅Has access to 29 tools and uses Browser Use open-source for browser control ✅User communicates with executor agent and not planner or other agents. ✅Each user gets isolated sandbox environment ✅Outperforms OpenAI Deep Research on GAIA benchmark Building AI products doesn't require training your own foundation models. We're probably just scratching the surface of what existing models can do with the right tooling and integration!show more

MiaoYan is a lightweight, native macOS Markdown editor for... writing and notes — one of my open-source macOS projects. It just shipped its biggest update to date, introducing Split View for side-by-side Markdown editing and live preview, with smooth bidirectional scroll sync. This release also brings a full visual refinement, layout cycling between sidebar, list, and focus modes, faster startup with native window animations, and broad performance improvements across editing, preview, and export. Built entirely in Swift, not Electron. MiaoYan is local-first, requires no account, collects no telemetry, and avoids AI features by design. I built it for clean Markdown, performance, and a calm writing environment.show more

This free tool lets Claude scrape Google Maps for... you, on autopilot. It's called Google Maps Scraper Kit. Give Claude a city and a business type, and it drives a local scraper to hand back a clean list of businesses, names, phones, emails, websites, ratings, and reviews. → One-command setup, runs entirely on your laptop → Claude Code skill triggers on plain language → Optional social media lookup at no extra cost → Built-in rate-limit safeguards and proxy support for larger jobs 100% Free. Open source.show more

NVIDIA open-sourced a 600M model that transcribes 40 languages... in real-time at 80ms latency and it costs $0. that's faster than you can blink. across mandarin, arabic, hindi, portuguese, tagalog, whatever,from a SINGLE checkpoint. → 17x more concurrent streams than buffered ASR on the same H100. → punctuation + capitalization built-in. no post-processing. → runs on your own GPU. no API bill 100% Open Source.show more

Visa just gave your AI a debit card. A... real, spendable Visa card created by an AI chatbot in under 10 seconds. No human types in a card number or visits a checkout page. The machine handles it all. A tool called AgentCard just went live on Claude Desktop Anthropic’s AI assistant. You say create a card and the AI generates a one-time virtual Visa, preloaded with whatever amount you set. Then it spends it, anywhere Visa is accepted on your behalf. Visa, Mastercard, Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all been building toward this moment for over a year. Visa calls it the trusted agent protocol, Mastercard calls it agent pay. Google published an open standard for agent payments and the infrastructure is already live. Santander and Mastercard just completed Europe’s first real AI‑agent payment in a live banking environment Now the part no one wants to talk about. Your AI agent can be manipulated and prompt injection a known, unsolved vulnerability can trick an agent into buying things you never asked for. The agent holds the card, makes the call and the agent can be fooled. Who is liable when an AI makes a bad purchase? You? Anthropic? Visa? The merchant? No one has answered this yet, regulators haven’t caught up, and no court has tested it.show more

I love this opensource project! Someone just put a... 28.9M parameter AI model on an ESP32-S3. A chip that costs only a few dollars. No cloud. No API. No internet. It runs locally at ~9.5 tokens/s and can generate stories on a tiny screen. This changes the way we think about AI hardware. The next generation of AI toys, robots, and IoT devices may not need the cloud at all. Small chips are getting smarter. 🤖show more

PewDiePie just hit 20K GitHub stars in under 24... hours. The project? Odysseus. A self-hosted AI workspace that runs 100% on your machine. • Agents with tools • MCP built in • Persistent memory • File handling • Windows, macOS, Linux Your data never leaves your device. It supports Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM locally with OpenAI and OpenRouter support if you want cloud models too. The crazy part? A YouTuber with 110M+ subscribers just out-shipped most AI startups. And he built half of it using AI.show more

OpenClaw Releases iOS and Android Companion Node Apps That... Connect a Phone to a Self-Hosted AI Agent Gateway Most "AI assistant" apps are a chatbot in a sandbox, calling someone else's API. OpenClaw's iOS and Android apps draw a very clear line away from that model. They're companion nodes, not standalone apps. Each phone pairs to a self-hosted OpenClaw Gateway over a WebSocket (default port 18789) with role: "node". The Gateway — the single control plane for sessions, routing, channels, and events — runs on macOS, Linux, or Windows (WSL2). The phone gives the agent a body: camera, location, voice, notifications, and a live Canvas. Here's what's actually interesting: → The assistant runs on your machine — chat messages land on the Gateway, never on the phone → Nodes expose a command surface (canvas., camera., device., notifications., system.*) through node.invoke → Privacy-heavy commands like camera.snap and screen.record stay off until you allowlist them via gateway.nodes.allowCommands → Camera and screen capture run foreground-only; pairing needs explicit approval (openclaw devices approve) → Both store listings declare no data collection; ws:// is LAN-only, remote needs a wss:// TLS endpoint via Tailscale Full analysis: Android app: iOS App: OpenClaw🦞show more

THIS ENGINEER SKIPPED 7,862 WORDS OF AI ROADMAP AND... SHIPPED ON A WEEKEND a Pi Zero 2W, an IMX500 camera and a solar panel, that's the whole stack inference runs on-chip so there's no cloud, no latency and no monthly bill Spotted Dove at 0.95, King Parrot at 0.88, runs forever on sun code is open source and the 3D files are free, you just print the case and buy the parts and it works better than most paid wildlife monitoring services out there full video: code (open source): 3D print files: solar power board: save this so you actually have everything in one place when you decide to build itshow more

HERMES AGENT NOW SUPPORTS COMPUTER USE ON WINDOWS AND... LINUX. CLICKS, TYPES, SCROLLS YOUR DESKTOP IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE YOU WORK. computer use was macOS only. now it works on Windows and Linux too via Cua. Nous Research HOW IT WORKS: cua-driver runs as an MCP server. Hermes takes a screenshot with numbered elements. clicks element #14 (the search field). types a query. submits. reads the result. during all of this: → your cursor stays where you left it → keyboard focus doesn't change → windows don't come to front → macOS doesn't switch Spaces you and the agent co-work on the same machine. WHAT IT CAN DO: → find your latest Stripe email and summarize it → fill forms in a web app that has no API → navigate desktop apps (Mail, browser, Finder) → interact with any GUI application → extract data from apps only accessible via screen WORKS WITH ANY VISION MODEL: not locked to Anthropic. | Provider | Works | |---|---| | Claude (Sonnet/Opus) | best overall | | GPT-4+, GPT-5.5 | full support | | Gemini (via OpenRouter) | full support | | Local vLLM / LM Studio | if model supports vision | | Text-only models | degraded (accessibility tree only) | SETUP: hermes computer-use install or: hermes tools → Computer Use → cua-driver grant permissions when prompted: → Accessibility (system settings) → Screen Recording (system settings) start a session: hermes -t computer_use chat or add to config.yaml / Desktop app settings to enable permanently. SAFETY: → destructive actions require your approval → blocked key combos: empty trash, force delete, lock screen, log out → blocked type patterns: curl | bash, sudo rm -rf /, fork bombs → agent cannot click permission dialogs → agent cannot type passwords → agent cannot follow instructions embedded in screenshots pair with approvals.mode: manual if you want every single click confirmed. TOKEN NOTE: screenshots are expensive. each one adds vision tokens to context. use computer_use for tasks where no API exists. if the tool has an API or MCP server, use that instead. 15 levels of Hermes Agent👇show more

🧃 Introducing stereOS: a Linux based operating system hardened... and purpose built for AI agents. It's clear that agents need an ACTUAL operating system (not what people are calling an "OS") to witness the full breadth and depth of their capabilities while mitigating the blast radius of autonomous, untrusted actors. But there are so many problems with AI sandboxes today: * Going out to the apple store and buying a mac mini will never scale and is way too expensive (obviously) * Running in Docker is too restrictive (agents can't stand up their own container infrastructure, no sub virtualization, docker-in-docker is very broken) * Firecracker strips all the hardware so GPU PCIe passthrough, secure boot, FIPs, etc. is out of the question. * Native VMs are too fat and the overhead of 1 agent per VM is too much. stereOS takes a different approach: it's a full NixOS system that you boot and then kick off agent sandboxes inside with gVisor + /nix/store namespace mounting. Each agent gets their own kernel and the /nix/store is read only by nature. Even if the agent was somehow able to escape the gVisor virtual kernel, they'd land on the NixOS system as the "agent" user! Not your actual hardware!! If you want to take a defense-in-depth approach, we support "native" agents that run at the system level kicked off by our `agentd` utility. These agents, on their own, can manage and kick off other sub agents using the internal sandboxing mechanisms. Today, we're open sourcing all of this: * stereOS: our purpose built Linux OS - * masterblaster: client utility to launch, manage, and orchestrate agents - * stereosd: the stereOS system control plane daemon - * agentd: the stereOS system agent management daemon - Give it a try, throw us a star, and let me know what you think 🧃⭐️show more

ANTHROPIC JUST TURNED AI AGENTS INTO GIT REPOS Anthropic... shipped "ant" - a CLI that runs every Claude API endpoint straight from your terminal. The headline isn't the terminal access. It's that you can now version-control an AI agent as YAML in Git and have CI sync it to the Claude Platform, the same way you ship code. - Every API resource is a subcommand: messages, models, files, agents, sessions - Define an agent in a YAML file, check it into your repo, and keep it in sync with one update command - Spin up a session, send it an event, then pull every event and tool call back from the same CLI - Claude Code knows how to drive ant out of the box - it shells out and reads the results with no glue code Agents just stopped being prompts you babysit and became infrastructure you deploy.show more