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Static binary, no runtime dependencies, cost-aware routing across many LLM providers with automatic failover, MCP client support, BYOK and self-updating, installed via curl pipe. (GitHub) Flagging the license because it's easy to miss: despite the open repo and GitHub-hosted README, the badge reads Proprietary, which is unusual among this week's otherwise MIT and Apache-2.0 agent tooling. Read before you build a workflow on it.
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Triple-stream retrieval (BM25 keyword, vector embeddings, knowledge-graph traversal) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion on the iii engine, with SQLite for state and an in-memory vector index, no external database. The economic claim: ~170K tokens/year (~$10) versus ~650K tokens...
A Chinese lab shipped a runtime that manages two American coding agents as subagents, and it went from repo creation to 145,439 stars in four days. deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness published dsh-v0.1.0-rc.7 at 12:01 UTC today, its first tagged release since the repo appeared on Au...
iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI is Apache-2.0 C#/.NET giving agents read/write control over .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx with no Microsoft Office install, no external dependencies, and no .NET runtime at execution time (GitHub). Its differentiator over python-docx-style libraries is a native f...
Built by Tobias Lutke (Shopify co-founder). Combines BM25 full-text search, vector semantic search, and LLM re-ranking — all running locally via GGUF models. Includes a built-in MCP server for direct integration with AI agents. No cloud dependency. Install with npm install -g...
Three moves, two days, no coordination between them. August 10–11: GitHub shipped Ollama as a BYOK provider inside Copilot for JetBrains (GitHub Changelog). Unsloth released Unsloth Desktop with a command literally named unsloth start claude, which points Claude Code and Codex...
chrome-devtools-mcp isn't another community MCP server with 200 stars and a README that doesn't match the code. It's Google's Chrome DevTools team shipping an official MCP server that gives any coding agent (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor) full access to Chrome DevTool...
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