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A developer built UsageNow, a native macOS menu bar app that aggregates usage data from OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity into a single compact view. The app reads local session files and, for Claude…
Vercel released Next.js 16.3 on August 3, cutting dev-server memory use by up to 90% by writing Turbopack's route cache to disk and evicting the in-memory copy, with Vercel's own dashboard app dropping from 21.5 GB to 2 …
Developer Fabian released Chat-Man, a free WhatsApp MCP server with a web UI that lets AI agents programmatically read, search, extract, and send WhatsApp messages, and receive webhooks for incoming messages in starred c…
Marco released Agentbox, an MIT-licensed CLI that copies a project, skills, and subscription OAuth into Docker or cloud sandboxes so multiple coding agents such as Claude, Codex, and PI can run in parallel without worktr…
FronyBoard v0.37.0, a project tracker for AI agents distributed as fronyboard on PyPI, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16, according to the mcpindex server index. The mcpindex semantic screen found …
Local AI Weekly's second issue highlights a wave of open-source local AI agent tooling, including agent-inspect, a local-first debugger for TypeScript AI agents, AutoMem, a persistent memory layer that connects to agents…
DSCI, a self-hosted Git and CI server, now offers an LLM-based pipeline code generator that produces CI configurations from natural-language requests, according to a post on Hacker News. Users submit a prompt such as "Bu…
Webb-Ventures published autorouter version 0.2.5 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16, distributed as autorouter-mcp on npm and filed under Search by mcpindex. The MCP capability router replaces every server's tool…
Wenlan launched as a local AI knowledge-base daemon that builds and maintains source-backed wiki pages without overwriting user edits, available for download on macOS Apple Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux via a headless …
MinerU v1.2.0, a document parsing MCP server for PDFs, images, DOCX and PPTX with OCR and batch processing, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 as the npm package mineru-mcp, according to the mcpinde…
HLA-Verify v1.0.1, an MCP server for HLA nomenclature and match checks against a pinned IPD-IMGT/HLA release, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 as a hosted remote over streamable-http. The mcpindex…
Bottled, a branded email server for sending, replying, searching, aliases, contacts and campaigns, was published to the official MCP registry as version 1.0.0 on 2026-09-16, distributed as a hosted remote over streamable…
The MCP server com.jnexum/jurisprudencia, which serves 1.1M+ Brazilian court decisions from 17 courts, was published at version 1.1.1 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 as a hosted remote over streamable-http. Th…
Dropbox has expanded Riviera from a file preview service into a universal content processing platform that supports more than 300 file formats and more than 100 transformation capabilities, now performing hundreds of tho…
Google released new Gemini Live models in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, including Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which the company says rank first on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech leaderbo…
JetBrains released version 2026.2.2 of Rider, ReSharper, and its .NET tools, adding an AI Agent Setup widget to Rider's status bar that lists supported coding-agent features including MCP tools, skills, and hooks. The up…
A developer building Daily Doodle, a static GitHub Pages app, found that a free public hit-counter API (countapi.mileshilliard.com) worked on desktop but silently failed on mobile because the domain was blocked at the ne…
A developer published a tutorial demonstrating sentence-window retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technique that indexes individual sentences for precise matching and then expands each hit into a surrounding window …
A developer warns that automation and AI are making automated API abuse faster and harder to detect, as bots send thousands of requests, rotate through many IP addresses and accounts, and mimic legitimate traffic. The wr…
KDnuggets published a cheat sheet on Scikit-LLM, a library that wraps language models in the scikit-learn estimator API so they drop natively into a Pipeline or cross-validation loop. The cheat sheet covers estimators in…