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Chamilo 3.0 has been released as an open-source learning management system with a native MCP server and PAuth2.1 support, according to the project's changelog. The release includes fixes across display, course, document,…
Artifactkit is a zero-dependency UI kit that lets AI agents produce reports, dashboards, kanbans, wikis, scorecards and decks as a single self-contained .html file that opens by double-click with no server, build or netw…
Kage launched on Hacker News as a tool that turns design inspiration from real product interfaces into prompts for coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The site lists 160 designs, 780 components, 88 pr…
A guide published on an AI-focused site recommends seven alternatives to Reddit for AI coding discussion: Hugging Face, the Cursor Discord, Stack Overflow's AI-tagged section, Dev.to, PromptCube, X, and GitHub Discussion…
Neuro Engine, an MCP server that analyzes a codebase's skeleton so AI coding agents emit compact change blueprints instead of full-file rewrites, claims token savings of up to 96% on large surgical edits, with smaller fi…
A developer building an LLM-powered customer support agent has documented four deterministic failure-mitigation patterns that avoid asking the model to be correct, including score-threshold filtering to suppress weak sea…
A developer published quota-tavily, an OpenCode plugin that answers the /quota-tavily command with an instant Tavily API usage report without consuming an LLM turn. The plugin fetches api.tavily.com/usage with a Bearer k…
A developer traced the Model Context Protocol's Sampling feature, in which an MCP server can send a `sampling/createMessage` request up to the client asking it to run an LLM completion on the server's behalf. The writeup…
A11, an open-source runtime and RPC toolkit, was released to let developers define application operations as typed actions with independently streamed inputs and outputs, runnable locally, across services or browsers, or…
A developer argues that the industry is conflating two distinct concepts: an AI agent, which is a single autonomous worker built for a defined task, and agentic AI, which is the architectural approach for coordinating mu…
ClickHouse released a family of built-in AI Functions that call an LLM or embedding provider directly from its SQL engine, with the full set available in version 26.8 after rolling out across releases 26.4, 26.6, and 26.…
OpenAI has turned the Codex harness into an API, launching the Agents API in public beta with no platform fee, charging only for models and tools. A single API call can launch an agent with its own compute environment, f…
Shopify is abandoning React Native six years after going "all-in" on the Meta-developed framework, rewriting its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin using a new AI-powered system. Director of Engineering and Head of Mobile M…
Empero-org released autocode, a coding agent contained in a single Python file of about 640 lines that ships with exactly one tool, bash, and is permitted to rewrite its own source code while working. The runner copies r…
A developer built an automated AI career coach that uses Make.com to connect Google Forms, Google Sheets, and Google Gemini, evaluating student progress reports and writing tailored feedback directly into a spreadsheet w…
Locus, an open-source lead-generation tool, added bulk CSV search, real SMTP email verification, and cross-session lead deduplication, according to its Show HN announcement. The self-hosted pipeline searches Google Maps …
OpenAI introduced its Agents API in public beta on Wednesday, a managed service that hosts the agent harness and infrastructure behind Codex so developers can define a custom agent in a single API call by specifying the …
Amazon released Pizza Bot, an open-source, local-first inbox for long-running AI agents, under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool runs on a stateful DeepAgents/LangGraph runtime with an Electron desktop app, browser client…
A developer built NanoVector, a dependency-free vector search library written in roughly 120KB of pure C with handcrafted AVX2 and NEON SIMD kernels, packaged as a 38KB Python wheel. Benchmarks against ChromaDB and FAISS…
A developer outlines engineering strategies for moving generative AI applications from prototype to production, arguing that the gap between a working demo and a resilient system is one of engineering discipline rather t…