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881 tools for people who ship. Every entry is a factual listing drawn from the product’s own site. 15 of them have been hands on tested and scored by a named editor.
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A file
Two AI agents talk by taking turns editing one shared markdown file. No server, no framework. They edit it until they agree.
Marginal
Track every LLM call's cost and slice it by customer, feature, model, any field you define.
VernLLM
The LLM call framework. Resilience, observability, and control for every call.
Sovereign AI Registry
Compare AI vendors on data residency, training defaults, retention, subprocessors, certifications and EU AI Act role. One row per vendor × product × deployment, every...
TensorSharp
TensorSharp is a native .NET GGUF inference engine with a CLI, Web UI, compatible APIs, Agent Skills, and optional sandboxed model-authored code.
AIFCC
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and MiMo run with full sudo inside a hardware-sandboxed Linux desktop on your Mac. The guest cannot escape, so your real Mac stays untouched.
Backprompter
Build AI agents from plain-language prompts, test them with mock users and scored evaluations, then deploy as a chat app, embed, or API, no backend, database, or secrets...
Sidereon
One reference-validated GNSS and astrodynamics engine. A Rust core with first-class interfaces in Rust, Go, Python, C, Elixir, and WebAssembly.
AG Insights
Reasoning models are delivering named, quantified results in four use cases, software engineering, clinical documentation, compliance and customer service.
Nitpicker
Open-source AI that reviews GitHub PRs, roasts your variable names, and deploys on Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, or GitHub Actions. LGTM is not in its vocabulary.
Sapporta
Sapporta is a TypeScript and SQLite framework for building small database applications with generated APIs, editable grids, forms, reports, and row-scoped authorization.
Generativeide
GIDE (GenerativeIDE) is a privacy-first, model-agnostic AI code editor. Run local models offline or connect your own API key. Zero token costs on local AI. Air-gap ready.
Tokenstead
Track the latest open-weight AI models, agent harnesses, and tooling. See what runs on your hardware, who's running what, and honest cost comparisons.
RequestGuard
Create CAPTCHA-gated short links with optional expiry and password protection. Bots cannot follow.
Selfship
When 300 customers hit the same wall, Selfship finds the exact moment it goes wrong and opens an eval-backed pull request. You review, you merge.
AI News Report
A folder of code can now run its own commands on your computer as soon as an AI coding agent opens it. The trick hides in the folder's own git settings, in a file called .
How Riffn works
Riffn links your iPhone to a coding agent running in a repo on your own computer, over Tailscale. Start a session, pocket the phone, and keep working by voice while you...
Canopii Trust Index
Continuously scanned, security-scored registry of MCP servers. Tool-poisoning, injection, supply-chain, and credential risk, one score per version.
Traccia
Traccia is an AI agent control plane for observability, evaluation, governance, and runtime policy enforcement across production AI systems.
Anakin
Turn any website into clean, agent-ready data. Scrape, crawl, search, and run pre-built Wire actions across 940+ sites. One API key, structured JSON.
Stonefold
Companies are starting to let AI agents take real actions in their systems. Stonefold is the checkpoint that keeps those actions inside rules your organization approved,...
Guidedreview
Turn your commits into a structured review that helps you catch AI-code issues before your teammates do. Free, open source, BYO LLM key.
Zenveil
Copilot, Cursor, and Claude write code fast. ZenVeil catches the secrets, CVEs, and OWASP vulnerabilities they miss, in under 30 seconds, and auto-fixes with a GitHub PR....
otaku
otaku is a free LLM frontend for roleplay with a web UI and a terminal. Runs on your machine, local model or cloud API, no infrastructure, one-command install.
TheGitAI
TheGitAI is an agentic AI coding tool for your terminal. It investigates, edits, tests, and documents your code. No provider account or API keys, and every AI edit is...
Imperavi
A developer-controlled UI and integration layer for adding AI suggestions, reviews, reports, and writing tools to Redactor. Use your own backend, prompts, and model.
Slopsift
Catch AI writing tells with a custom-trained NLP parser, not a word list. SlopSift runs locally in your browser, CLI, or VS Code, with exact, explainable findings.
Benhoyt
I used an AI agent to make a big update to my GiftyWeddings.com website, taking it from a gift registry to a full website builder in 275 commits.
1667
A full-screen terminal environment for writing fiction with language models. Keep every take in a story tree. Plain-text files and no tracking of any kind.
Hiver
Fast, replayable sandboxes for every browser, file, network, and tool action.
InferCrane
Connect, deploy, observe, optimize, release, and recover production inference across managed APIs, serverless GPUs, dedicated capacity, and your cloud behind one stable...
Build A Harness
Aielia is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant that runs an 11-layer harness every turn and stops for your approval before sending email, paying, or running commands....
Appaloft
Run appaloft up and this folder becomes a live URL, folder deploy without git. An open-source Railway alternative and self-hosted PaaS path. appaloft setup agent writes...
Orthogonal
Discover, call, and pay for 800+ endpoints from 50+ verified providers, through one integration. Pay per call, no subscription.
CI/Lock
CI/lock collects trusted telemetry across every checkpoint between commit and production, CI/CD builds, security scans (SAST/DAST/SBOM), runtime + cluster integrity...
homebutler
Know what changed on your server since last time, and which of it is worth acting on. Report, map, doctor, and backup drills in one Go binary: CLI, web, JSON, or MCP.
Pacific Slate
A self-hosted AI system that remembers, works in the background, and runs on hardware I own. What it does, and the design decisions behind it.
Sipp
Sipp is an open-source AI runtime and endpoint client for browser WebGPU, native GGUF inference, trusted providers, and self-hosted gateway workflows.
Frontier AI Lab Jobs
Explore frontier AI lab jobs by department and function across OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, with role maps, job links, and context on how top AI labs are organized.
Framein
Framein is the local work-state layer beneath your AI coding agent harness: task contract, challenge loop, model-switch capsule, and validation gate.
AnalystAIPack
It will happily tell you to "check the file for anything malicious," suggest a plugin that does not exist, or skip the one step that actually matters.
frontend-design-pro
A skill pack an AI coding agent loads while it writes frontend code. It routes one of 19 skills per request, holds the output to 61 machine-checked constraints, and ships...
LoomStack
AI accelerates engineering. Coordination breaks down at scale. LoomStack orchestrates agents, context, and governance from signal to production.
Xalgorix
Point Xalgorix at your app or repo. An autonomous AI pentester finds vulnerabilities, proves each with a working exploit, and hands engineers the fix. Runs in CI. Scans...
UnslopAI
A writing tool that preserves your voice through AI editing. Fixes cadence, structure, and lexical density. Not just synonyms.
Synapse
Network intelligence platform. Diagnose, analyze, and monitor every layer of your internet-facing stack from a single command center.
Flowy.llink
Flowy.llink, Send 30-second video messages, skip the meeting llink .
CapyToolkit
Access a growing collection of free browser utilities for hardware testing, dev work, audio, and security. 100% client-side. Zero uploads. Try them now.
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