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Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development

A 16-year-old developer named Aarav has released Sprocket, an open-source AI agent for hardware and software development that can autonomously purchase items from any website, including hardware parts and SaaS subscriptions. Sprocket retrieves web context for reliability and aims to rival Codex, Cursor, and T3Code in quality, performance, and UI, with benchmarks forthcoming.

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Hey HN, I am 16y/o and have been working on Sprocket for a while. It's an open-source AI agent that beats every other agent out there at both hardware and software.

And here's the best part: Sprocket can (on its own) buy anything from any website when you tell it to do so. From hardware parts to SaaS subscriptions.

Sprocket retrieves best-in-class context from the web for everything it does. It is therefore incredibly reliable. The agent harness's quality, performance, and UI rival that of Codex/Cursor/T3Code, and we are rapidly improving. We will be releasing benchmarks on how Sprocket beats every other agent at both software and hardware soon.

In terms of hardware design, Sprocket can make beautiful schematics in react, create your BOM, and create detailed assembly instructions.

Hope you try it out!

Thanks, Aarav

P.S. if the demo video doesn't load for you, come back after ~1.5hr and it should be there, I kinda had to submit this early. Sorry!

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145934](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145934)

Points: 10

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