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Developer oleg-vdv released Kepil, an open-source accountability layer for AI agents that provides an immutable passport, a machine-readable mandate, a fail-closed action gate, a hash-chained append-only journal, and an …
A developer built a production e-commerce store for a women's clothing boutique solo using WordPress, WooCommerce, and Claude Code, which wrote most of the code while the developer handled architecture and review. The pr…
A developer built an open-source audit and governance layer for AI agents, comprising a versioned "passport" identity card, a scoped machine-readable mandate, a pre-model-call permission gate, and an append-only hash-cha…
A developer is building SceneRok, a programmable video tool that pairs a VidScript format with a deterministic compiler to turn launch and social video production into reusable, code-like assets. The project targets indi…
A developer compared six persistent memory systems for AI coding agents over MCP and found that cross-editor memory sharing depends entirely on account-level setup rather than connection health, since clients can report …
A developer benchmarked 10,000 tool executions across the two primary Model Context Protocol (MCP) transport models, finding that Stdio over UNIX pipes delivered a mean latency of 2.1 ms versus 19.4 ms for remote SSE ove…
A developer built Social Memory, a local-first evidence library that captures liked, bookmarked, and reposted posts from X/Twitter and Threads into a searchable SQLite/FTS5 database. The tool uses an unpacked Manifest V3…
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Images 2.5 and two API models, gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst, on September 8, 2026, with Flare positioned as the default choice for most applications and Sunburst as the more ca…
A developer built PR Tour, a tool that generates a single HTML file for reading pull requests, using a coding agent to author reading order, explanations, and definition mappings into a manifest that a Python builder val…
A developer maintaining the open-source project Foremerge argues that agent orchestrators and agent coordinators are distinct layers of the agent stack, differentiated by whether they sit in or beside the control path. F…
A developer described a private two-stage pipeline that pulls consolidated AWS Security Hub CSPM findings from GuardDuty and Inspector, renders a first-stage HTML report inside AWS, then post-processes it on a local EC2 …
A developer's experiment presented as a poster at CppCon tested whether a small, local LLM integrated into the Clang/LLVM compilation pipeline could match the -O3 optimization flag, using five deliberately inefficient C+…
A developer created an open-source GitHub repository cataloging 200+ student offers, including free developer tools, AI tools, cloud credits, design software, and education plans. Each listing documents eligibility, regi…
A developer built pi-box, an Electron app that wraps the AgentVM sandbox to boot directly into the pi coding agent with a single download and no extra dependencies. AgentVM, built on container2wasm, emulates a RISC-V 64 …
Researchers at Straiker STAR Labs documented a supply chain operation in which a malware campaign called SmartLoader spent three months building a fake developer ecosystem around a trojanized Oura Ring MCP server before …
A developer building autonomous AI agents with Claude Code documented a two-day debugging failure in which an automation's submission upload returned an unexplained 403 Forbidden error. The root cause was that the archiv…
3DBAE launched a no-code browser workspace that combines AI Rendering, a 3D Configurator, and Canvas visual workflows to turn 3D models, materials, and Gaussian Splats into interactive web product experiences. The platfo…
AWS released the Deception Benchmark, a public dataset and evaluation process that measures how well AI models distinguish genuine security vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is safe, and the results show fal…
A new arXiv paper (2609.11957v1) proposes pre-action verification as an underused form of LLM agent oversight, testing it across shell commands and code edits. For shell commands, a static verifier over 9,930 commands an…
Offline reinforcement learning post-training can substantially improve zero-shot code generation in large language models without online sampling, according to an arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.11956v1). The findings show perfo…