Topic 7 of 16 in the learning path

AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP

Tool calling, agent loops, multi-agent systems, memory, MCP and agent frameworks.

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• An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports that his Coder Grok Bot installed OpenAI Codex on its computer and then used it.
• Asking a Coder bot to install Codex · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator asks his Coder Grok bot to install Codex so it can use up his usage limits while he is away.
• Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet · Melvin Vivas, X: A practical tip for using an AI agent to collect leads: have the bot write everything to one Google Sheet, with a separate tab for each industry or service.
• There Is No Best Agent Harness: Guide to Multi-Harness RL · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator argues that no single agent harness is the best: how well a harness works depends on the model you use with it.
• Chief-of-staff bot that delegates to other bots · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator now goes through one primary 'chief of staff' (COS) Grok Bot, which hands tasks off to his other specialized Grok Bots.
• Morning digest from a chief-of-staff agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator's primary 'chief of staff' Grok Bot sends him a morning digest.
• Codex Orchestrator Pattern: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator updated his open-source Codex setup so that GPT-6.1 Sol (or Astra) acts as the orchestrator and hands work to cheaper Luna subagents.
• Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage · Melvin Vivas, X · 9:09: This is a replayed launch demo of "dots", a personal AI agent product.
• LLM Council Agent in Pi Using Codex and Claude Models · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator runs an 'LLM council' agent in Pi, where several models work on the same task together.
• Docker Sandboxes for Running Coding Agents Locally · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends Docker Sandboxes, isolated environments for running coding agents locally.
• A 'Chief of Staff' Primary Bot to Manage Multiple Grok Bots · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator uses Grok Bot's new Primary Bot feature to make a 'Chief of Staff' bot.
• GPT-6.1 Sol May Beat Luna for Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator's first impression is that GPT-6.1 Sol has replaced Luna as the best model for subagents.
• Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification · Melvin Vivas, X: The post shares a blog article from AIBackends on using Jev, a tool by TypeSafe AI, as a decision model for classifying emails.
• OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:29: This 29-second clip from OpenAI's announcement introduces "Dots", agents built into ChatGPT.
• Dots in ChatGPT: always-on AI agents that you hand responsibilities to · Melvin Vivas, X · 6:54: A clip of the launch event for Dots, presented by "Sam" (probably Sam Altman, since Dots ships in ChatGPT).
• Do you still need Context7 MCP if the model browses docs itself? · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator asks whether the Context7 MCP server is still needed now that GPT-6.1 Sol browses technical documentation on its own when it needs to.
• Jev Decision Model: Forecasting AI Receptionist Calls from Structure Alone · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:11: Melvin Vivas shares a real-world use case of Jev, which the post calls a "decision model." In the quoted post, Jev was given 2,029 real phone calls from an AI receptionist.
• Cloudflare's 'cf': an agentic CLI for the whole Cloudflare API · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin highlights Cloudflare's new 'cf' CLI, which covers nearly the entire Cloudflare API and is built to be easy for AI agents to use.
• Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:26: This short post reshares xAI's announcement of Team Bots in Grok.
• AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production · Melvin Vivas, X: The post links to a blog article on how to choose between autonomous AI agents and fixed AI workflows for production systems.
• Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots · Melvin Vivas, X · 7:27: Melvin Vivas reposts an official walkthrough, presented by "Matt with SpaceX", of the new Templates feature in Grok Bot.
• Picking models for orchestrator and subagent roles in Codex · Melvin Vivas, X: After testing GPT-6 Sol, the creator is staying with a Codex multi-agent setup: Astra as the orchestrator and Luna as subagents.
• Open-source Codex skill: Astra/Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares his open-source GitHub repo, which has a skill and setup for running Astra or Sol as an orchestrator in Codex with Luna as subagents.
• Cost-Efficient Codex Subagents: Astra/Sol Orchestrator + Luna Workers · Melvin Vivas, X: How to set up subagents in Codex without using up usage limits too fast.
• Google's multi-agent framework for consistent long-form video · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas highlights a Google announcement of a unified multi-agent framework for generating long-form video narratives.
• Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:04: Melvin Vivas shares Docker's announcement of Cloud Sandboxes, a hosted version of Docker Sandboxes for running AI agents.
• Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK · Melvin Vivas, X: Gemma 4 now runs locally, on-device, inside the Antigravity SDK, powered by LiteRT.
• Monitor Codex and Claude Code Subagents with agent-monitor · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares his open-source tool agent-monitor.
• GPT-6 Sol Ultra Subagents Use Up Limits Fast · Melvin Vivas, X: An observation that GPT-6 Sol Ultra spawns subagents at the same Ultra reasoning level, which uses up usage limits quickly.
• TanStack AI Adds Subagents for Streaming Multi-Agent UIs · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends TanStack AI now that it supports subagents.
• Codex Orchestrator v0.2.1: GPT-6 Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares v0.2.1 of his open-source Codex orchestrator setup.
• Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator adds to his reading list a write-up by Charlotte Daniels, Runpod's Head of Data, about building an internal AI data-analyst agent.
• Pointer: Subagents in Devin CLI · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says he is reading about subagents in Devin CLI.
• Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator compares his Codex Astra-Luna orchestration skill with Devin's Fusion pattern and Anthropic's Advisor pattern.
• Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models · Melvin Vivas, X: This post explains Anthropic's Advisor tool pattern for cutting cost.
• Pointer: How Devin Fusion Works · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares how Devin Fusion works, probably in an attached image that is not included here.
• The complete arXiv corpus as a Hugging Face dataset · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares a Hugging Face dataset holding the whole arXiv site: 3,148,796 papers in every version, as LaTeX, PDF, PostScript and HTML, about 16 TB in total.
• Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Coworker, his open-source desktop app where AI agents do work for you, using local or cloud models.
• Melvin Vivas's refreshed website: AI agents, local models, workflows · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator announces a redesigned personal website.
• Running Gemma4-E2B tool calling locally on an iPhone · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports getting tool calling working with Gemma4-E2B running fully on-device on an iPhone.
• Jev + WebMCP Solves 100% of Benchmark Tasks at About 112× Lower Cost · Melvin Vivas, X: A quoted benchmark claims that Jev with Mercury 2.5, a fast and low-cost LLM, used WebMCP to solve 100% of tasks at about 112× lower model cost than GPT-6 Astra using computer use
• Agent Monitor: Visualize Codex and Claude Code Subagents, Traces and Costs · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:04: Melvin Vivas shares Agent Monitor, an open-source GitHub project that shows what subagents are doing when you run OpenAI Codex or Claude Code.
• Intent Classification and Routing in a Multi-Agent Desktop App · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas describes a routing pattern in his Coworker app.
• Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents, with Jev · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator links his open-source Coworker app, a desktop app where AI agents do work for you using local or cloud models.
• Agent Monitor: Visualize Coding-Agent Subagents, Traces and Costs · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator released Agent Monitor v0.1.0, an open-source dashboard for Codex, Claude Code, Pi and Hermes main agents and their subagents.
• Coworker: an open-source AI agent desktop app for non-technical users · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator introduces Coworker, an open-source desktop app of personal and work AI agents built for non-technical people.
• Codex orchestrator + subagents setup with configurable profiles · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator's open-source codex-astra-luna-orchestrator repo now publishes releases.
• Limit subagents to 2 to avoid wasting tokens · Melvin Vivas, X: The post quotes a claim that running more than 2 subagents at once mostly burns tokens with no quality gain, because agents keep double-checking each other's work.
• OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:42: Melvin Vivas had Codex turn Gergely Orosz's diagram of OpenAI's "agentic software factory" into a narrated explainer video with no manual edits.
• How OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory Works (Pragmatic Engineer) · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas recommends a Pragmatic Engineer article by Gergely Orosz.
• Coworker v0.6.1: Connect AI Coworkers to Telegram and Discord Bots · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas announces version 0.6.1 of Coworker, his own open-source project.
• Cut agent costs by giving chore subagents a cheaper model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says routine chore tasks don't need a top model like Astra.
• WebMCP: Exposing Existing App Features as Agent Tools · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator plans to try WebMCP after seeing a quoted demo.
• OpenResearch: turn a coding agent into a research agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares OpenResearch, which was the #1 trending GitHub repo on the Friday before.
• Codex orchestrator/subagent skill: Astra or Sol leads, Luna subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a Codex skill for multi-agent setups.
• Codex traces: picker model is the orchestrator, subagents stay Luna · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator checked the Codex traces.
• Simpler Codex orchestration: drop the project .codex/config.toml · Melvin Vivas, X: Defining the root model in a project's .codex/config.toml stops you from picking a different orchestrator model or reasoning level.
• Portable Computer Now Runs AI Agents and Models Locally on NVIDIA RTX PCs · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:32: Melvin Vivas reacts to an announcement, asking whether it will run on his RTX 3090.
• Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas built Coworker, an Electron desktop app for AI agents, to practise building agentic apps.
• Thank-You Post for Coworker Repo Supporters · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator thanks 27 people who supported his Coworker GitHub repo.
• Coworker v0.6.0 Adds Discord Integration for AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Version 0.6.0 of Coworker lets you pair an agent with Discord.
• Agent Skill to Analyze Your X (Twitter) Analytics Export · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares an agent Skill (a SKILL.md file) that analyzes the stats you export from X.
• Frontier Model as Orchestrator, Local Open Models as Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator describes a chat-and-code app he is building with Codex's help.
• One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the exact prompt he used in DeepSeek Harness with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (High) to build a 'software factory' UI for managing agents.
• Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a post saying fx.sh can now run subagents that use different models and reasoning efforts.
• Codex orchestrator repo: Astra/Sol orchestrate, Luna runs subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator's open-source repo, codex-astra-luna-orchestrator, has reached 1k GitHub stars.
• OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator plans to use OpenAI's newly launched Agents API as the backend for a 'Software Factory' app whose UI was generated by Codex with GPT-6 Astra (Ultra).
• Claude Code mockup: a UI for managing agents in sandboxes · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator asked Claude Code to design a UI for a 'software factory' app.
• Bionic by LM Studio: An Agent App for Local Models · Melvin Vivas, X: LM Studio has released Bionic, a new agent app that works with models running locally.
• Updating Skills and AGENTS.md for Astra with OpenAI's Guidance · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is updating his Skills and AGENTS.md files for the Astra model, following OpenAI's guidance.
• Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas is testing opencode to recreate the orchestrator-and-subagents pattern with open models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM and Kimi.
• Building Software Factories on the OpenAI Agents API (Codex-Powered) · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas plans to build a product on the new OpenAI Agents API.
• Codex Astra/Luna Orchestrator Repo: Orchestrator + Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares his open-source repo, which sets up Astra or Sol as the orchestrator and Luna for subagents in Codex.
• GPT-Live-1 Voice Agents in the API, and Charlie Guo · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas recommends following Charlie Guo, who he says handles most OpenAI launches.
• OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:17: Melvin Vivas shares OpenAI's launch video for the Agents API, now in public beta.
• GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:16: This is a short launch demo of GPT-Live-1, a full-duplex voice model now in the OpenAI API.
• Codex Orchestrator Profiles: Astra/Sol Lead, Luna Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares an open-source setup for Codex.
• Coworker v0.5.0: Local Desktop Agent with Markdown Memory · Melvin Vivas, X: Release notes for Coworker v0.5.0, the creator's local desktop agent, built using Codex for coding, testing, docs and release.
• Run Coworker desktop agents cheaply with GPT-5.6 Luna on OpenRouter · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends the GPT-5.6 Luna model for agent 'coworker bots' because it is very cheap through OpenRouter.
• Codex orchestrator/subagents setup: Astra or Sol + Luna · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator updated his open-source setup for Codex.
• Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) · Melvin Vivas, X: News that Grok Bot can now connect to go-to-market tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay and Granola.
• Coworker: Free Desktop AI Agent App with Cloud or Local Models · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shows Coworker, his open-source desktop app where AI agents do work for you, such as making an invoice.
• Using Codex Subagents to Produce a Video End-to-End with No Manual Edits · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:18: Melvin Vivas shows an 18-second promo-style video that he says OpenAI Codex made with subagents and no manual editing.
• Running Parallel Subagents in Codex with an Orchestrator Skill · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares a Codex skill that makes it easy to run work in parallel with subagents.
• Coworker v0.4.1: Open-Source Desktop AI Agent App Adds CLI & Headless Mode · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas released v0.4.1 of Coworker, his open-source desktop app where AI agents do work for you.
• Single Agent vs Subagents in Codex: Trying Astra Only · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas plans to work a full day in Codex using only the Astra model, with no subagents.
• Codex Astra/Luna Orchestrator: Reasoning Defaults for Pro vs Plus · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas updated the reasoning defaults in his open-source Codex orchestrator config (Astra/Luna) to match his Pro setup.
• Coworker: open-source agent that runs on local models · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Coworker, his open-source personal agent project.
• Codex setup: Astra orchestrator with Luna subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a GitHub repo that sets up Codex so a large model (Astra or Sol) orchestrates and smaller Luna models run as subagents.
• Cost-aware agents: big model plans, small subagents execute · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator pushes back on 'just use Astra for everything,' because people paying for their own usage face real cost and limit constraints.
• A TUI for Managing Codex Subagent Configurations · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator previews a terminal UI (TUI), written in Go, for building Codex configurations for subagent setups.
• Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says a Grok bot runs his LinkedIn for him: it likes posts, publishes posts and collects leads into a Google Sheet.
• Codex Multi-Agent Setup: Astra as Orchestrator, Luna for Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares his current Codex setup: a project-level config.toml that uses GPT-6 Astra on medium reasoning as the orchestrator and GPT-5.6 Luna on max for the subagents.
• Codex Astra Orchestrator + Luna Subagents Repo Hits 412 Stars · Melvin Vivas, X: A thank-you post noting that his Codex orchestrator repo has reached 412 stars and 26 forks.
• jsonl-viewer: Inspect Coding Agent Traces (Codex, Claude Code, Pi, Hermes) · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares jsonl-viewer, his tool for viewing and editing .jsonl files.
• Codex Orchestrator/Subagent Setup: Astra (medium) + Luna (max) · Melvin Vivas, X: A real report on a Codex multi-agent setup used to build an eval app.
• codex-astra-luna-orchestrator: Astra/Sol Orchestrator + Luna Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares his repo for setting up Codex with Astra or Sol as the orchestrator model and Luna for subagents.
• Codex Subagents: Attaching Skills and MCP Servers per Subagent · Melvin Vivas, X: In OpenAI Codex's subagent configuration, you can set Skills and MCP servers for each subagent separately, not just globally.
• Codex Subagents: Astra Orchestrator + Luna Workers, and How to Swap Models · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas explains that his Astra Orchestrator + Luna subagents setup for OpenAI Codex doesn't lock you into Luna as the subagent model.
• Codex: Orchestrating Big Tasks with a Skill and Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports that for big tasks Codex now reliably uses his 'astra orchestrator' skill, which hands work to subagents.
• Luna Subagents Save Usage Limits in Codex Pro · Melvin Vivas, X: A short remark that delegating work to cheaper Luna subagents kept Astra from burning through all of his Codex Pro limits.
• Measuring Codex Pro Runtime: Astra(low) + Luna(max) Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas reports real usage figures from Codex Pro (5x).
• Codex Orchestrator Skill: Astra Orchestrates, Luna Subagents Execute · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares his open-source Codex skill.
• Codex Orchestrator: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas updated his open-source setup script for running multiple agents in Codex.
• JSONL Viewer v1.3.4: Inspecting Nested Codex Subagent Traces · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:12: Melvin Vivas announces version 1.3.4 of his open-source JSONL Viewer, a tool for reading JSONL files such as agent trace logs.
• Cutting Codex Subagent Costs: Luna Orchestrator, Astra Reviewer · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas suggests a cheaper Codex multi-agent setup for Plus users.
• Cutting Token Costs in Codex Orchestrator/Subagent Setups via config.toml · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas explains how he changed the default model settings in his Codex Astra-Luna Subagents skill after users said it used too many tokens.
• Inspecting Coding-Agent Traces Live with JSONL Viewer (Codex, Claude Code) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:21: This short post (a silent video) shows JSONL Viewer v1.3.2, a tool that streams the session trace files (JSONL logs) written by coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, Pi and Hermes
• Codex Astra Orchestrator + Luna Subagents Skill Update · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator updated his Codex skill, in which a strong model (Astra or Sol) orchestrates and cheaper Luna subagents do the work.
• Learn Subagents in Cursor and Codex · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points Cursor users to Cursor's official subagents guide.
• Codex Subagents: Official Documentation · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares OpenAI's official Codex subagents documentation.
• Testing Model Combinations for Codex Orchestration · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator plans to test his Astra orchestrator + Luna subagents setup more thoroughly.
• JSONL Viewer v1.3.2: Live-Streaming Agent Traces from Codex, Claude Code & More · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:21: Melvin Vivas announces version 1.3.2 of his open-source JSONL viewer (donvito/jsonl-viewer).
• Easy Install for the Codex Astra Orchestrator Setup · Melvin Vivas, X: The Astra orchestrator + Luna subagents setup now ships with setup scripts for Mac and Windows.
• Orchestrator + Subagents in Codex: Astra Leads, Luna Builds a CRM Smoke Test · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shows a multi-agent coding setup in OpenAI Codex.
• Monitoring a Codex orchestrator + subagents setup with JSONL traces · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is testing a Codex setup where GPT-6 Astra orchestrates and Luna models run as subagents.
• Codex orchestrator (Astra/Sol) with Luna subagents: example repo · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a repo that sets up Codex with Astra or Sol as the orchestrator and Luna models as subagents.
• Namespace macOS Instances as Computers for AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas points out that Namespace offers cloud macOS instances.
• Coworker: An Agent App Inspired by Grok Bot, Built on Pi · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator explains that his desktop agent app Coworker isn't meant to compete with Grok Bot.
• Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for Local-Model AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator introduces Coworker, a desktop app where AI agents do work for you using local or cloud models.
• Docs7: Serving Agent-Readable Documentation to Coding Agents via MCP · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:40: Melvin Vivas quote-posts the launch of Docs7, calling it a 'GOAT' for coding and saying sometimes it's the only MCP server you need.
• ChatGPT Work: A Cloud Agent Built on the Codex Harness That Books Travel · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:00: Melvin Vivas reshares an OpenAI demo of ChatGPT Work, a cloud agent that runs on the Codex harness.
• Share Pi Agent Traces on Hugging Face with pi-share-hf · Melvin Vivas, X: pi-share-hf is an open-source tool by Mario Zechner (badlogic).
• Wish: Automatic Model Selection for Codex Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator wants Codex to pick a model for each subagent automatically based on the task.
• JSONL Viewer v1.3.0: View Codex, Claude Code, Pi and Hermes Agent Traces · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator released version 1.3.0 of his open-source JSONL viewer.
• Assign Different Models per Role in ohmypi (Like Hermes) · Melvin Vivas, X: The ohmypi coding agent lets you assign a different LLM to each role, as the Hermes agent does.
• Coworker v0.4.0: Desktop AI Agent App Adds Browser Use · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:16: Melvin Vivas (donvitocodes) announces version 0.4.0 of Coworker, his desktop app where AI agents do work for you.
• Coworker: open-source desktop app where AI agents do work for you · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares his Coworker GitHub repo and says he cleaned up the README to keep only the essential information.
• Grok Bot Can Now Make Online Purchases for You · Melvin Vivas, X: News that Grok Bot can now buy things online after you connect the Link payment service.
• Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas introduces Coworker, his free desktop app that runs AI agents on your own computer.
• Grok Bot Templates: How to Share, Publish, Install and Check Bot Blueprints · Melvin Vivas, X · 7:27: This walkthrough explains Templates in Grok Bot.
• Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:32: Melvin Vivas shares Firecrawl's new free "keyless" mode, which lets AI agents search and scrape the web without an API key or signup.
• herdr: See All Your AI Agents in One View · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends trying herdr, a tool that shows all your AI agents in one view.
• Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is building Coworker, an open-source AI agent for work tasks.
• Coworker v0.3.0: Telegram Messaging, File Return and PowerPoint Export · Melvin Vivas, X: Release notes for Coworker v0.3.0, the creator's open-source AI work agent.
• Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for Running AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares his open-source project Coworker, a desktop app where AI agents do work for you.
• Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:07: Melvin Vivas shares the trailer for "Building Adaptive AI Agents," a course built with Oracle and introduced by Andrew Ng.
• Firecrawl startup deal: 2x monthly credits for a year · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Firecrawl's new startup deal.
• Coworker Design: Every Agent Capability Is a Skill · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator explains that in his Coworker desktop agent app, every capability is built as a Skill.
• Download Coworker: Open-Source Desktop AI Agent App · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the GitHub link for Coworker, his desktop app where AI agents do work for you.
• Coworker with Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B via LM Studio on a Mac · Melvin Vivas, X: Shows the creator's Coworker agent app running fully locally on a Mac.
• Zero-Cost Coworker Setup: OpenRouter Free Models + Local LFM2.5 · Melvin Vivas, X: Shows how to run the Coworker agent app for free.
• Coworker: A Subscription-Free AI Agent on Local LFM2.5-2.6B · Melvin Vivas, X: Shows Coworker, the creator's AI agent app for work, running locally with Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B model.
• Coworker Adds Agent Profiles · Melvin Vivas, X: A feature update for the creator's open-source Coworker desktop app: agents now have profiles.
• Meet the Coworker Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: A promo-style intro to the agent 'Coworkers' in the creator's open-source desktop app, with a link to the repo.
• Two Grok Bots Discussing in a Channel · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator set up two Grok bots to hold a discussion in a channel and calls it a cool feature.
• Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares Coworker, his open-source desktop app where AI agents do work for you.
• Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says you can run his open-source Coworker app (a Grok Bot clone) on free models through OpenRouter.
• Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator built Coworker, a free, open-source Grok Bot clone.
• Let agents run on their own and build an approval layer · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator argues that for most work tasks, AI agents should run on their own instead of being watched step by step.
• Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator explains a new Hermes Agent feature: each Hermes Bot is a separate profile.
• An X research bot built with Hermes · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports good results from an X (Twitter) research bot running in Hermes.
• 5 Agentic Design Patterns: ReAct, Planning, Reflection, Routing, Multi-Agent · Bashiri Smith, Facebook · 0:11: A production AI agent needs more than an LLM plus a prompt.
• Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin comments on an academic benchmark that ran one software task across 7 agents and 5 models.
• Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter · Melvin Vivas, X: LFM2.5-2.6B, a small model, is free on OpenRouter with good throughput.
• Running a Local Ornith Model as the Backend for a Hermes Agent · Melvin Vivas, X: Shows a split setup: a Hermes agent runs on a Mac and connects to a PC on the network that serves the Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B model with llama.cpp.
• Mixture-of-Agents Setting Was Quietly Using Up Codex/ChatGPT Quota · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator found an unexpected 1% drop in his Codex usage and traced it to a mixture-of-agents setting in his Hermes agent.
• Mind Viruses: How Bad Ideas Spread Through Multi-Agent LLM Systems · Melvin Vivas, X: Highlights a paper showing that in multi-agent LLM systems, a bad idea picked up by one agent can convince other agents to adopt it.
• Running DeepSeek V4 Pro on Baseten with the Pi Agent Harness · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin shows DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) served on Baseten and used inside the Pi coding-agent harness.
• Free Colab Notebooks: LFM2.5 2.6B Tool Calling and Benchmarks · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator added a Notebooks section to his website for free Colab notebooks.
• DeepSeek harness: open-source agent with an inspectable trajectory view · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator highlights the DeepSeek harness, an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness.
• Agent Loops in ML Engineering: Liquid AI's Vibe-Coded Tokenizer Trainer · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a Liquid AI engineering blog post as the "ML version" of loop engineering.
• Comfy MCP Goes Local and Open-Source: Agents That See Your Install · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:20: Melvin Vivas reshares an announcement that Comfy MCP is now a local, open-source MCP server, following Comfy Cloud MCP, which shipped in June.
• AutoDesign: Improving the Harness Around the Model with a Meta-Harness Loop · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the AutoDesign paper, which reports surpassing Claude Design.
• Running Qwen 3.8 27B locally in Hermes agent on an RTX 3090 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is impressed with Qwen 3.8 27B running in the Hermes agent on a single RTX 3090.
• GAIA: free Docker installer for multiple Hermes agents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator released GAIA, a free installer that makes it easy to set up one or more Hermes agent instances in Docker on Mac and Windows.
• Running a Hermes agent locally on Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4_K_M) on an RTX 3090 · Melvin Vivas, X: Short post showing that a 27B Qwen 3.8 model, quantized to Q4_K_M, can run an agent (Hermes Agent) on a single 24 GB RTX 3090.
• DonvitoCodes Colab notebooks for running local models (LFM2.5-2.6B) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator added a Notebooks section to his website, where he'll post Google Colab notebooks for running local models.
• Multi-agent delegation to lower-cost models to save Codex limits · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points to a newly shipped multi agents v2 feature.
• Adding Agent Capabilities to ai-backends with Pi · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin added agent capabilities to his open-source ai-backends project using Pi.
• Create scheduled jobs in Hermes by asking in chat · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says they never set up their Hermes jobs by hand.
• Hermes (Grok 4.6) vs ChatGPT Work on a text-to-PDF task · Melvin Vivas, X: A one-off speed comparison on a simple task: turning text into a PDF.
• Turning the X 'For You' Algorithm Code into an Agent Skill · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator downloaded the open-source code of the X recommendation algorithm and packaged it as an agent skill (x-for-you-growth) in his skillsbento repo.
• Logging blood pressure from a screenshot with a personal AI agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator sends a screenshot of his blood pressure monitor to his Hermes AI assistant.
• Grok Bot: Computer-Use AI Agents as Teammates (Early Beta Demo) · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:45: Melvin Vivas reshares the launch video for Grok Bot, an early-beta "AI teammate".
• Agents Aren't Cloud Native Because They Rely on Filesystems · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points out a design limit of today's AI agents: they depend on a local filesystem, so they are not cloud native.
• Pi Coding Agent: Four Built-In Tools (read, bash, edit, write) · Melvin Vivas, X: The quoted post explains that the Pi coding agent ships with only four tools: read, bash, edit and write.
• Using a Hermes agent to watch the terminal and drive Codex · Melvin Vivas, X: While llama.cpp took a long time to compile, the creator went to bed.
• Serve LFM2.5-2.6B with vLLM and connect it to Hermes · Melvin Vivas, X: A step-by-step guide to serving Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B with vLLM, with tool calling turned on, and using it as a custom provider in the Hermes agent.
• LFM2.5-2.6B Matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Tool Calling; LEAP Fine-Tuning · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is trying Liquid AI's LEAP framework for fine-tuning and says it looks like it has everything you need.
• Claude Code Agents Can Now Talk to Each Other Natively · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:16: This is a short reaction post about a new Claude Code feature: agents can now send messages to each other directly.
• Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness with Code-Based Tool Calls · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:44: Melvin Vivas shares the launch video for Prime Agent and says he'd like ThePrimeagen to endorse it.
• Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness That Calls Tools in Code · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:44: Melvin Vivas shares a launch post for Prime Agent, a general-purpose harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks built on the recursive language model (RLM) idea.
• Hermes Desktop Adds an Agent-Controllable In-App Browser · Melvin Vivas, X: Hermes Desktop from Nous Research now has a built-in browser.
• Cloudflare Wallets: Programmable Payment Wallets for AI Agents · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:12: This is a short reaction post.
• Enable Telegram Threads for Your Hermes Agent Bot · Melvin Vivas, X: If you use Hermes through a Telegram bot, turn on threads so you can talk to the agent about different topics in separate threads.
• Agent credit alerts and falling back to another model provider · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator set up Hermes Agent to alert him when his model credits run out.
• Running Qwen 3.6 35B locally on an RTX 3090 for agent tool calling · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator runs Qwen 3.6 35B (MTP variant) locally on one RTX 3090 GPU.
• Hermes Agent: 135 PRs Merged in One Day (Stability & Fixes) · Melvin Vivas, X: A quick share of a changelog for the Hermes agent project, which merged 135 pull requests in one Saturday.
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731's strong results on agentic and coding benchmarks: Terminal Bench, DeepSWE, Toolation, Automation Bench, DSBench and Agents Last Exam.
• Hermes Agent + HyperFrames: Turning a Web Page into a Video · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:48: This is a short demo with no narration.
• Use Hermes Agent to Download Videos from X, YouTube, Facebook · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends Hermes Agent for downloading videos from X, YouTube, Facebook and similar sites, and says it just works.
• Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway · Melvin Vivas, X · 5:21: A short demo of connecting a full Hermes Agent from Nous Research to Buzz, an agent-first chat app that works like Slack.
• MCP 2026-07-28: The Protocol Is Now Stateless · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the announcement of MCP spec version 2026-07-28, described as the largest update since the protocol launched.
• Grok 4.5 Works Well as the Model Behind Hermes Agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports that Grok 4.5 performs well as the model behind Hermes Agent.
• Hermes Agent Adds Hands-Free Voice Activation with a Wake Word · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:20: Melvin Vivas reacts to a quoted announcement: Nous Research's Hermes Agent now supports voice activation.
• Hermes Agent Recommendation · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says AI has come a long way since ChatGPT and calls Hermes Agent 'pretty solid'.
• Run a Separate Hermes Agent per Domain with Docker · Melvin Vivas, X: A short architecture tip: give each domain its own Hermes agent and isolate each one in a Docker container.
• Building an Agent Command Centre with Hermes Agents in Docker · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is running many Hermes agents in Docker containers to build a 'command centre' that manages multiple agents.
• Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator lists the LLMs he swaps between inside the Hermes agent for personal productivity tasks (not coding).
• Grok Build Adds Workflows for Repeatable Multi-Agent Pipelines · Melvin Vivas, X: Grok Build now has a Workflows feature.
• Hermes Agent v0.19.0: faster responses and smart approvals · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares the release notes for Hermes Agent v0.19.0.
• Updating Hermes Agent to v0.19.0 ("The Quicksilver Release") · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:06: A short screen recording with no narration.
• Run Hermes Agent locally with Qwen 3.6 35B MTP in LM Studio · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator runs Hermes Agent on a local Qwen 3.6 35B model (MTP variant) served through LM Studio.
• Using Hermes Agent as a personal assistant to write documents · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator used Hermes, his personal AI assistant, to write a bank authorization letter for his sister, which then only needed a signature.
• Local Personal AI Agent to Explain Your Investment Portfolio · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas uses Hermes Agent as a personal AI assistant to help him understand what is happening in his investment portfolio.
• Free Personal Assistant: Hermes Agent + Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP in LM Studio · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas is testing Hermes Agent with the local model qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp served by LM Studio.
• Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas asked Hermes Agent to make a video.
• Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:41: Melvin Vivas shows a personal assistant he built on the open-source Hermes agent.
• Hermes Agent Automates LinkedIn Posting · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas jokes that Hermes Agent handles his LinkedIn posting so he can spend more time on X.
• Pre-built Installable Profiles for Hermes Agent (hermes-profiles) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator released hermes-profiles, a repo of ready-made profiles you can install into Hermes Agent, for example a 'legal-person' profile.
• Using Hermes Agent as a Non-Coding Personal Assistant · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator lists what he actually uses the Hermes agent for.
• Running Hermes Agent with Local Models on an RTX 3090 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator installed Hermes Agent on a PC with an RTX 3090 to see how it does with local models.
• Run your personal agent on your daily machine for continuity · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator runs the Hermes agent on the Mac he uses every day instead of a separate machine.
• Swapping your agent's main model when you hit API limits · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator normally uses Grok 4.5 as the main model in his Hermes agent and finds it excellent.
• Using a Personal AI Agent to Monitor a Stock Portfolio · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator gave his Hermes personal AI agent his stock portfolio and asked it to watch news and market events that affect it.
• Ask Your Agent to Configure Itself: Adding Image Generation · Melvin Vivas, X: Hermes Agent can change its own setup when you ask it in plain language.
• Automating Explainer Videos with a Hermes AI Agent Workflow · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:32: Melvin Vivas shows a 32-second demo of an explainer video made almost entirely with AI.
• Cut Hermes Agent Token Costs with Gemini Flash as an Auxiliary Model · Melvin Vivas, X: A cost-saving tip for Hermes Agent (Nous Research): set a cheap, fast model (Gemini Flash, accessed through OpenRouter) as the auxiliary model for web and vision tasks.
• Personal Agent Use Case: Turn School-App Screenshots into Calendar Events · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator sends a screenshot of a school-app message to his Hermes agent.
• Using Hermes Agent with Discord vs Telegram as Chat Clients · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator compares chat apps for talking to Hermes Agent.
• Hermes Agent: An Open-Source Personal Agent with Tools and Memory · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends NousResearch's open-source Hermes Agent as a personal AI assistant.
• Using a Shared Hermes Agent for Family Calendar Management · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator suggests sharing one Hermes agent with the whole household.
• Everyday Non-Coding Uses for a Personal AI Agent · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator lists the real tasks he has used Hermes for.
• How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes · Melvin Vivas, X · 9:19: Nevo David, founder of the open-source social media scheduler Postiz, explains why Postiz grows by about $1K MRR a day while many competitors stay under $1K–3K MRR.
• Running GPT-5.5 via Codex as Hermes's Main Model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator runs Hermes Agent with GPT-5.5 through Codex as its main model.
• Running Hermes Agent in Telegram and Discord · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator installed Hermes Agent in both Telegram and Discord.
• Hermes by Nous Research Praised as a 'Life Hack' · Melvin Vivas, X: A short post praising Hermes from Nous Research as 'the greatest life hack'.
• Connecting the X (Twitter) MCP Server to Cursor via an OAuth 2.0 App · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:14: In this short post, Melvin Vivas shows that he connected X's official MCP server to the Cursor code editor.
• X Launches an MCP Server (X MCP) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reacts to Elon Musk's post announcing X MCP, a Model Context Protocol integration for X.
• Devin Fusion: A Hybrid-Model Harness for Agentic Coding · Melvin Vivas, X: Devin Fusion is a new hybrid-model harness for agentic coding.
• Comfy MCP: Controlling ComfyUI Workflows from AI Agents via MCP · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:33: Melvin Vivas shares a quoted launch post for Comfy MCP, now in public beta.
• Where to get help with OpenClaw stability issues · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points OpenClaw users to Hannes Rudolph, OpenClaw's new Community Manager.
• CEO AI Brain: agents answer business questions with charts · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is building a 'CEO AI Brain': AI agents that answer business questions straight from the company database, so no meetings are needed.
• OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:30: This is a product demo of the OpenRouter MCP server.
• NVIDIA Agent Toolkit: open Nemotron models for domain-specific agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares NVIDIA's launch of Agent Toolkit, a stack that combines open Nemotron models, tools, skills and a secure runtime.
• Qwen-AgentWorld: a single world model simulating 7 agent environments · Melvin Vivas, X: Introduces Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B, a language world model that simulates 7 agent environments (MCP, Search, Terminal, SWE, Web, OS, Android) in a single model.
• Grok Build /goal: Long-Running Autonomous Tasks with Subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: xAI added a /goal command to Grok Build.
• Building a basic MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Claude Code · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator used GLM 5.2 inside Claude Code through Z.ai's official coding plan, and it reliably built a basic MCP server.
• Testing free GLM 5.2 in Devin Desktop to create an MCP server · Melvin Vivas, X: A quick test of the free GLM 5.2 model in Devin Desktop: it built an MCP server in a couple of prompts.
• Sakana Fugu: Multi-Agent Orchestration Behind a Single Model API · Melvin Vivas, X: Sakana AI released Fugu, a full multi-agent orchestration system that you call through a single model API.
• Codex Python SDK: embed Codex in your Python apps · Melvin Vivas, X: OpenAI released a Codex Python SDK that lets developers embed the Codex coding agent in their Python apps and workflows.
• Dynamic workflows: Claude Code running hundreds of parallel subagents · Melvin Vivas, X: Explains Claude Code's dynamic workflows.
• Cursor's /orchestrate Skill: Agents That Spawn Agents via the Cursor SDK · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:20: Melvin Vivas reshares Cursor's announcement of /orchestrate, a skill that keeps spawning sub-agents to break up and work through large, ambitious tasks.
• Gemma 4 E4B Driving an iOS Simulator With Argent · Melvin Vivas, X: A demo shows the small on-device model Gemma 4 E4B navigating and controlling an iOS simulator through a tool called Argent.
• Gemini Spark: Google's VM-Based Personal Agent in the Gemini App · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the launch of Gemini Spark, a dedicated agent in the Gemini app, and jokingly nicknames it 'Gemini Claw'.
• AEvo: Splitting the Agent Self-Improvement Loop in Two · Melvin Vivas, X: The post covers AEvo ("Harnessing Agentic Evolution"), which splits an iterative agentic search and self-improvement loop into two roles.
• Multimodal AI Pointer: Combining Voice, Mouse Pointing and Vision with Gemini · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:57: Melvin Vivas shares a Google DeepMind demo of a prototype that puts Gemini behind the mouse pointer.
• GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation · Melvin Vivas, X · 4:03: Melvin Vivas shares OpenAI's demo of two new realtime audio models in the API, and says live translation now gives Google Translate real competition for travel apps.
• GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation · Melvin Vivas, X · 4:03: Melvin Vivas shares OpenAI's demo of two new realtime audio models in the API.
• Running Pi Coding Agent with a Local Qwen 3.6 Model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a report from r/LocalLLaMA about running the lightweight Pi coding agent with a local Qwen 3.6 (35B) model.
• Cursor SDK: Build Agents on Cursor's Runtime, Harness and Models · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:35: Melvin Vivas reacts to Cursor's launch of the Cursor SDK and quotes the announcement.
• skillsbento: Free Open-Source Agent Skills for Claude · Melvin Vivas, X: Points to skillsbento, a site with free, open-source agent skills you can add to Claude.
• Every Hugging Face Space Now Has AGENTS.md for Coding Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Hugging Face Spaces now include an AGENTS.md file.
• Calling Hugging Face Spaces from Claude Code as Agent Tools · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:23: A short demo post (no narration) showing Claude Code calling Hugging Face Spaces directly as tools.
• A2UI v0.9: A Portable Standard for Agent-Generated UI · Melvin Vivas, X: The quoted post announces A2UI v0.9, a standard for portable generative UI that lets agents send UI directly to existing frontends.
• Gemma 4 Running Agentic Tasks Fully On-Device on a Phone · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:44: Melvin Vivas reshares a demo of Google's Gemma 4 running entirely on a phone.
• Gemini CLI Adds Subagents with Separate Context Windows · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the news that Gemini CLI now supports subagents.
• Claude Managed Agents: Anthropic's Hosted Harness for Building and Deploying Agents · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:59: This short announcement post introduces Claude Managed Agents, launched in public beta on the Claude Platform.
• Gemma 4 E4B: A Local Agentic Edge Model in 6GB RAM · Melvin Vivas, X: Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 E4B, a small edge model quantized to 4-bit, completed a full repo audit by running Bash commands and tool calls locally.
• Ollama Is Now an Official Provider for OpenClaw · Melvin Vivas, X: Ollama is now an official model provider for the OpenClaw agent.
• Free, Unlimited Agentic AI with Local Qwen 3.5 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says running Qwen 3.5 locally gives free, unlimited agentic AI with no API costs, and plans to test it with his own agent SDK.
• SkillsMP: Free Marketplace of 364K Agent Skills · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares SkillsMP, a free marketplace that lists about 364K Agent Skills for coding agents like Codex and Claude, and credits Manus for finding it.
• X/Twitter stats analyzer agent skill from skillsbento · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares a free, open-source agent skill that analyzes X/Twitter stats.
• New skills viewer in the Claude desktop app · Melvin Vivas, X: The Claude desktop app has a new view for skills that lets you read what each installed skill contains.
• MiniMax M2.5: first open-weight model in Notion Custom Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: MiniMax M2.5 is now available inside Notion Custom Agents, the first open-weight model offered there.
• Agent Skills: Modular On-Demand Context, and skillsbento · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin argues that agent skills are the future: modular, on-demand packages that give a coding agent deep context for complex development, beyond simple code completion.
• Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:11: A 1-minute walkthrough of MaxClaw, a hosted agent feature inside MiniMax Agent.
• skillsbento: A Free, Open-Source Marketplace for AI Agent Skills · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator launched skillsbento, a free, open-source marketplace for AI agent skills.
• Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI · Melvin Vivas, melvinvivas.com: This 2023 post shows how LangChain's APIChain turns a plain-English question into an HTTP API call, using an OpenAI chat model.

Watch, free (8)

• Hugging Face Agents Course · course · huggingface.co · free
  A free agents course with a real completion certificate.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• AI Agents in LangGraph (DeepLearning.AI) · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  Build an agent, then rebuild it in LangGraph.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Building Adaptive AI Agents · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A course on agents that learn from experience: turning their traces into reusable skills and building a code knowledge graph for retrieval.
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) on X: AI pointer demo post · video · x.com · free
  Google DeepMind's original post with the demo video of a Gemini-powered pointer that combines voice, pointing and visual understanding.
  Mentioned in: Multimodal AI Pointer: Combining Voice, Mouse Pointing and Vision with Gemini (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Intro to Agent Skills (video) · video · youtube.com · free
  Intro video on building modular, on-demand agent skills that give coding agents deep context.
  Mentioned in: Agent Skills: Modular On-Demand Context, and skillsbento (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Master All 20 Agentic Design Patterns (Mark Kashef) · video · youtube.com · free
  Mark Kashef's walkthrough of 20 agentic design patterns you can use when building agents.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• MiniMax Agent post: MaxClaw walkthrough · video · x.com · free
  MiniMax Agent's own X post with the MaxClaw walkthrough video.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• What Are AI Agents? (IBM Technology) · video · youtube.com · free
  IBM's short explainer on what AI agents are and how they work.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

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• Hermes Agent · tool · github.com · free
  Nous Research's open-source AI agent with CLI, TUI and desktop interfaces. It now supports hands-free activation with a wake word.
  Mentioned in: Inspecting Coding-Agent Traces Live with JSONL Viewer (Codex, Claude Code) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), An X research bot built with Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 56 more
• Coworker (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's local-first desktop app where you pick an AI coworker and have it produce work such as invoices as finished PDFs.
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 5.5 for Video Making: Creator's Showcase Thread (Coworker) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin AI to Test the Coworker Desktop App on Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 39 more
• donvito/codex-astra-luna-orchestrator · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's Codex skill for an orchestrator-plus-subagents setup (Astra orchestrator, Luna subagents), configured through config.toml.
  Mentioned in: Codex Orchestrator Pattern: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-source Codex skill: Astra/Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cost-Efficient Codex Subagents: Astra/Sol Orchestrator + Luna Workers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Orchestrator v0.2.1: GPT-6 Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 28 more
• Grok Bot · tool · x.ai · paid
  An early-beta AI agent product from the Grok family that runs in its own computer and browser instance and does tasks in your tools.
  Mentioned in: An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Asking a Coder bot to install Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using an ML agent to train an open-source TTS model on your voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 15 more
• Hermes · tool · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  The AI agent the creator uses to automate making explainer videos. It is probably Nous Research's Hermes Agent, but the post does not say so.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Monitor: see traces, tokens and costs of your coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 14 more
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) · docs · modelcontextprotocol.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  An open standard for connecting LLM apps and agents to tools and data sources. The official docs explain how it works and how to build servers and clients.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Paste Documentation URLs into Codex Instead of Using MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• Telegram · tool · telegram.org · free
  Messaging app that can be connected to MaxClaw so you chat with the agent there.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Telegram Streaming Sync, Built Fast with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Streaming Sync Between Telegram and Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• LangGraph · tool · langchain.com · free
  Open-source library for building stateful LLM workflows as graphs, with branching, loops and human-in-the-loop pauses.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), LangChain vs. LangGraph Explained with One RAG Chatbot (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Wannabe vs $200K+ AI Engineer: RAG, Agents, Context and Fine-Tuning Mistakes (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 3 more
• OpenClaw · tool · github.com · free
  An open-source, self-hostable personal AI agent that can run on local or hosted LLMs.
  Mentioned in: Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and the Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and Connect It to Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Local Models for Agents: Tool Use, Context and Quantization (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• skillsbento · website · skillsbento.com · free
  Melvin Vivas's GitHub plugin and skills marketplace for Codex and Claude Code, which includes the devils-advocate plugin.
  Mentioned in: SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Countering AI Sycophancy with a Devil's Advocate Plugin for Codex & Claude (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Skill to Analyze Your X (Twitter) Analytics Export (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Melvin Vivas's open-source AI tools, built with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• OpenAI Agents API · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's managed API for building and running cloud agents on a hosted Codex harness, with orchestration, sessions and context management built in.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• OpenAI Dots · tool · openai.com · paid
  Always-on agents in ChatGPT, each with its own cloud computer and browser, that take on ongoing work and personal responsibilities.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots in ChatGPT: always-on AI agents that you hand responsibilities to (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• DeepSeek Harness · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source (MIT) agent harness with plugins, a trajectory/event-stream view and support for any model.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek Harness desktop app released for macOS and Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting Started with DeepSeek Harness and the DeepSeek API Platform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek Harness: Open-Source, Browser-Based Agent for DeepSeek V4.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Devin Fusion · tool · cognition.com · free
  Cognition's write-up of the approach and architecture behind Devin Fusion, its multi-model routing for agentic coding.
  Mentioned in: Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pointer: How Devin Fusion Works (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Fusion: Multi-Model Routing to Cut Agentic Coding Costs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Fusion: A Hybrid-Model Harness for Agentic Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Discord · tool · discord.com · free
  Chat platform with servers and threads, used here as a client for Hermes Agent.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.6.0 Adds Discord Integration for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hermes Agent with Discord vs Telegram as Chat Clients (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Hermes Agent in Telegram and Discord (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Firecrawl · tool · x.com · free
  An open-source web data API with Search, Scrape and Interact features that turn web pages into LLM-ready markdown or structured data for AI agents.
  Mentioned in: Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Melvin Vivas | Building AI Agents, Local Models & AI Workflows (donvitocodes.com) · website · donvitocodes.com · check price
  The creator's site on building AI agents, local models and AI workflows, with coaching, livestreams and AI news.
  Mentioned in: Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Melvin Vivas's refreshed website: AI agents, local models, workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hermes Agent as a personal assistant to write documents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Automating Explainer Videos with a Hermes AI Agent Workflow (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Google Sheets · tool · google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Google's online spreadsheet app, used here as the place where the agent stores its results.
  Mentioned in: Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Morning digest from a chief-of-staff agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 6 Steps to Build a Resume Project That Lands an AI Engineering Job (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Melvin Vivas · person · x.com · free
  A creator who shares experiments with AI agents and developer tools on X.
  Mentioned in: How LLMs Work: A Motion-Graphics Explainer Made in One Shot with Claude Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Concept Demo: An Agent Monitor Built on OpenAI Codex Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and Connect It to Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running MiniMax H3 Locally on a Single RTX 3090 (Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• n8n · tool · n8n.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  No-code workflow automation with AI nodes.
  Mentioned in: n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• OpenAI Decisions API · tool · openai.com · paid
  A new OpenAI API, shown as a preview, that lets the model respond and make decisions.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Pi (pi.dev) · tool · pi.dev · free
  Minimal coding agent with four core tools, plus an SDK for adding those tools to your own apps.
  Mentioned in: Re-authenticate the Pi Agent with the New ChatGPT Sign-In (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Coding Agent: Four Built-In Tools (read, bash, edit, write) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Colab Notebooks | DonvitoCodes · website · donvitocodes.com · free
  The creator's collection of Colab notebooks for running local models, starting with chat and tool calling on LFM2.5-2.6B.
  Mentioned in: Free Colab Notebooks: ModernBERT, Gemma QLoRA, GLiNER & Guardrails (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks: LFM2.5 2.6B Tool Calling and Benchmarks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DonvitoCodes Colab notebooks for running local models (LFM2.5-2.6B) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CopilotKit · tool · x.com · free
  An open-source framework for building in-app AI copilot and agent UIs.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker (donvito) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release page for Coworker v0.3.1, Melvin Vivas's open-source project, which adds streaming sync with Telegram.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: open-source agent that runs on local models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Telegram Streaming Sync, Built Fast with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Streaming Sync Between Telegram and Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Devin CLI · tool · docs.devin.ai · check price
  Command-line version of the Devin AI coding agent, used in the terminal.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin CLI with the free SWE-2 model for sysadmin tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pointer: Subagents in Devin CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Manus (@ManusAI) on X · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of Manus, the AI agent company that announced Cue.
  Mentioned in: Cue by Manus: A New Rival to the Grok Bot on X (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent (and the Manus Connection) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), SkillsMP: Free Marketplace of 364K Agent Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WebMCP · tool · developer.chrome.com · free
  A proposed web standard that lets websites expose tools and context to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol in the browser.
  Mentioned in: Jev + WebMCP Solves 100% of Benchmark Tasks at About 112× Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), WebMCP: Exposing Existing App Features as Agent Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docs7: Serving Agent-Readable Documentation to Coding Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AutoDesign (automated e-commerce poster design) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  A paper on improving an agent's harness through an inner fix loop and an outer meta-harness learning loop, applied to long-horizon design.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AutoDesign: Improving the Harness Around the Model with a Meta-Harness Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Building Applications with AI Agents (Michael Albada) · book · oreilly.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Michael Albada's O'Reilly book on designing and building agent-based applications.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Claude Advisor tool · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Official documentation for Anthropic's Advisor tool, where an advisor model guides cheaper executor models.
  Mentioned in: Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy MCP · tool · github.com · free
  A local, open-source MCP server that gives AI agents access to your Comfy install (nodes, custom nodes and models) so they can fetch files, start the instance and run workflows.
  Mentioned in: Comfy MCP Goes Local and Open-Source: Agents That See Your Install (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comfy MCP: Controlling ComfyUI Workflows from AI Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CrewAI · tool · crewai.com · free
  A framework for role-based multi-agent teams.
  Mentioned in: 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Cursor SDK · tool · cursor.com · paid
  SDK for building agents on Cursor's agent runtime, harness and models, for use in CI/CD pipelines, automations or your own products.
  Mentioned in: Cursor's /orchestrate Skill: Agents That Spawn Agents via the Cursor SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor SDK: Build Agents on Cursor's Runtime, Harness and Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Daytona · tool · x.com · check price
  Sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code, now with GPU sandboxes.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Daytona Offers GPU Sandboxes (H100, RTX 4090/5090) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-Live-1 · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's full-duplex voice model in the API for real-time voice agents that pair with a backend reasoning/tool model.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Live-1 Voice Agents in the API, and Charlie Guo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-Realtime-2 · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's realtime speech-to-speech model for voice agents, with GPT-5-class reasoning, parallel tool calling and preambles.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ML Intern · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's agent harness that builds ML/AI solutions from plain-language requests.
  Mentioned in: Vibe Machine Learning with Hugging Face's ML Intern in HuggingChat (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ML Intern: Post-Train a Model by Chatting (Hugging Face) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Realtime API · docs · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's developer platform, where the realtime audio models are available for building voice agents and translation apps.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI's agentic software factory (The Pragmatic Engineer) · article · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · check price
  Gergely Orosz's write-up and diagram of how OpenAI uses Codex and specialist agents to build, review, deploy and monitor code. The caption link is cut off, so search the newsletter for 'OpenAI software factory'.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory Works (Pragmatic Engineer) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenClaw (@openclaw) on X · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of OpenClaw, an AI agent tool, where it posts updates.
  Mentioned in: Where to get help with OpenClaw stability issues (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5-Turbo: A Fast GLM-5 Variant for Agents Like OpenClaw (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Playwright MCP · repo · github.com · free
  Microsoft's MCP server that lets AI agents control a browser through Playwright for UI testing and automation.
  Mentioned in: Parallel Coding Agents with Git Worktrees and Playwright MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prime Agent · tool · primeintellect.ai · free
  A self-improving RLM harness for coding and autonomous tasks, with programmatic tool calling, context held as a variable, multi-agent messaging and a harness that can modify itself.
  Mentioned in: Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness with Code-Based Tool Calls (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness That Calls Tools in Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Sakana Fugu · tool · sakana.ai · paid
  Sakana AI's multi-agent orchestration system that you call as a single model API.
  Mentioned in: Sakana Fugu model now available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Sakana Fugu: Multi-Agent Orchestration Behind a Single Model API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Subagents | ChatGPT Learn (Codex) · docs · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  Official docs for configuring subagents in Codex.
  Mentioned in: Learn Subagents in Cursor and Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Subagents: Official Documentation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tau · tool · github.com · free
  Minimalist coding agent written in Python, a port of Pi's design, with native local-model support and extensions that can change its interface.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• @helloiamleonie · person · x.com · free
  The Liquid AI team member who helped with the Hermes setup.
  Mentioned in: Serve LFM2.5-2.6B with vLLM and connect it to Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• A2UI · tool · developers.googleblog.com · free
  Standard and SDK that let AI agents send generative UI to React, Flutter and Angular frontends.
  Mentioned in: A2UI v0.9: A Portable Standard for Agent-Generated UI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production (AIBackends blog) · article · aibackends.com · free
  Blog post on when to use an AI agent and when to use a fixed AI workflow in production systems.
  Mentioned in: AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Amazon Bedrock managed agents (powered by OpenAI) · tool · aws.amazon.com · paid
  Managed agents on AWS Bedrock powered by OpenAI models, for building OpenAI agents on AWS.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet · article · blog.cloudflare.com · free
  Cloudflare's blog post announcing Cloudflare Wallets, programmable wallets that let AI agents hold and spend money.
  Mentioned in: Cloudflare Wallets: Programmable Payment Wallets for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Antigravity SDK · tool · antigravity.google · free
  Google's SDK for building agent workflows, now able to run Gemma 4 locally.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• api_chain_one_map_api_example (GitHub Gist) · repo · gist.github.com · free
  Melvin Vivas's full Python code for the APIChain plus OneMap example.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• Argent · tool · github.com · free
  A tool that lets a model control an iOS simulator for on-device automation.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 E4B Driving an iOS Simulator With Argent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• arXiv paper: MCP vs. CLI agents benchmark (7 agents, 5 models) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Academic study comparing agents with and without MCP on a software task, measuring reliability and cost.
  Mentioned in: Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• BASWE: Agent Cheatsheet for AI Engineers · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  The creator's free cheat sheet (a Google Drive folder) summarizing agent design patterns.
  Mentioned in: 5 Agentic Design Patterns: ReAct, Planning, Reflection, Routing, Multi-Agent (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Blaxel · tool · x.com · check price
  Sandbox provider that works with the Agents API's BYOS option.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• BotFather · tool · t.me · free
  Telegram's official bot for creating and configuring Telegram bots.
  Mentioned in: Enable Telegram Threads for Your Hermes Agent Bot (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bringing MCP 2026-07-28 to Claude (Claude blog) · article · claude.com · free
  Anthropic blog post on the stateless MCP 2026-07-28 spec update and how Claude supports it.
  Mentioned in: MCP 2026-07-28: The Protocol Is Now Stateless (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Building Agentic AI · book · amazon.com · paid
  A book on designing and building agentic AI systems.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Buzz · tool · github.com · free
  An agent-first chat app that works like Slack, where you can run several AI agents and bots in one workspace.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cassius Lee · person · blogs.oracle.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Co-instructor of Building Adaptive AI Agents (name as it appears in the machine transcript).
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Charlotte Daniels · person · runpod.io · free
  Head of Data at Runpod and author of the article on data foundations for AI agents.
  Mentioned in: Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Space · tool · chatgpt.com · paid
  A shared ChatGPT workspace for people and their agents.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Agent SDK · tool · code.claude.com · check price
  Anthropic's SDK for building agents on top of Claude Code's agent setup.
  Mentioned in: Claude Plans Get Monthly Credit for Agent SDK and claude -p (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Managed Agents · tool · claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's managed offering that pairs a performance-tuned agent harness with production infrastructure for building and deploying agents.
  Mentioned in: Claude Managed Agents: Anthropic's Hosted Harness for Building and Deploying Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Platform Documentation · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Anthropic's main documentation for building with Claude.
  Mentioned in: Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ClaudeDevs announcement on X (Claude Code agent-to-agent communication) · article · x.com · free
  The official ClaudeDevs post announcing that Claude Code agents can now communicate with each other.
  Mentioned in: Claude Code Agents Can Now Talk to Each Other Natively (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Clay · tool · clay.com · free
  GTM data enrichment tool that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cloudflare cf CLI · tool · blog.cloudflare.com · free
  Cloudflare's agentic command-line tool for the entire Cloudflare API, with a natural-language command search.
  Mentioned in: Cloudflare's 'cf': an agentic CLI for the whole Cloudflare API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Goal mode · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  A Codex mode for long-running tasks aimed at a goal, which the creator runs on cloud VMs.
  Mentioned in: Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Python SDK · tool · github.com · free
  OpenAI's Python SDK for running Codex agent threads, turns and sessions from your own code.
  Mentioned in: Codex Python SDK: embed Codex in your Python apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Subagents documentation (Agent Configuration) · docs · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  Official docs on how to configure subagents in Codex.
  Mentioned in: Codex Subagents: Astra Orchestrator + Luna Workers, and How to Swap Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy Cloud MCP · tool · github.com · paid
  The cloud-hosted Comfy MCP server that shipped in June, before the local open-source version.
  Mentioned in: Comfy MCP Goes Local and Open-Source: Agents That See Your Install (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Context Hub · repo · github.com · free
  An open-source package from Andrew Ng and collaborators that lets different agents learn from each other.
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Context7 MCP · tool · github.com · free
  MCP server that supplies up-to-date library documentation to AI coding assistants.
  Mentioned in: Do you still need Context7 MCP if the model browses docs itself? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker Releases (installers) · repo · github.com · free
  Downloadable installers for Coworker.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker v0.5.0 release (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  Download page for the release that adds markdown-based memory to the local desktop agent.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.5.0: Local Desktop Agent with Markdown Memory (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker v0.6.1 (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release of Coworker that adds Telegram and Discord bot connections for AI coworkers.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.6.1: Connect AI Coworkers to Telegram and Discord Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor /orchestrate skill · tool · cursor.com · check price
  A Cursor skill that keeps spawning agents to work on large, ambitious tasks.
  Mentioned in: Cursor's /orchestrate Skill: Agents That Spawn Agents via the Cursor SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docker Cloud Sandboxes · tool · docker.com · paid
  Docker-managed cloud compute that runs AI agents in isolated microVMs, with billing by the second and built-in secrets, policies and MCP gateways.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docker MCP Gateway · tool · github.com · free
  Docker's gateway for connecting agents to MCP servers; it is built into Cloud Sandboxes.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docs7 · tool · context7.com · free
  A service that serves clean, agent-readable documentation to AI agents, with WebMCP and skills support and analytics on AI traffic.
  Mentioned in: Docs7: Serving Agent-Readable Documentation to Coding Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/gaia-personal-setup · repo · github.com · free
  An installer for multiple Hermes agent instances on Mac and Windows (requires Docker).
  Mentioned in: GAIA: free Docker installer for multiple Hermes agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/skillsbento – x-twitter-stats-analyzer SKILL.md · repo · github.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  The creator's agent Skill for analyzing exported X/Twitter stats.
  Mentioned in: Agent Skill to Analyze Your X (Twitter) Analytics Export (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• E2B · tool · x.com · check price
  Cloud sandbox for running AI-generated code, supported via BYOS.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X - X MCP announcement · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post announcing X MCP.
  Mentioned in: X Launches an MCP Server (X MCP) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Faraday (AI scientist agent) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Research on an AI scientist agent designed to replicate research papers.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Firecrawl for Startups · website · firecrawl.dev · check price
  Firecrawl's startup program page; Firecrawl is a tool that gives AI agents web data.
  Mentioned in: Firecrawl startup deal: 2x monthly credits for a year (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• firecrawl-cli · tool · github.com · free
  Firecrawl's command-line tool. Run it with npx to set up keyless search and scraping for your agents.
  Mentioned in: Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• fx.sh · tool · fx.sh · free
  Coding-agent tool that runs subagents with different models and reasoning efforts.
  Mentioned in: Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GAIA: Your Own AI Agents, Free to Download | DonvitoCodes · website · donvitocodes.com · free
  The about page for GAIA, the creator's free personal AI agent setup.
  Mentioned in: GAIA: free Docker installer for multiple Hermes agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Spark · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's dedicated agent in the Gemini app that runs on its own virtual machine.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Spark: Google's VM-Based Personal Agent in the Gemini App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gong · tool · gong.io · paid
  Revenue intelligence platform that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Maps · tool · maps.google.com · free
  Mapping service; the agent used it to show where the hotel options are.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google multi-agent long-form video framework announcement · article · goo.gle · free
  Google's announcement of a multi-agent framework for temporally consistent long-form video with less visual drift.
  Mentioned in: Google's multi-agent framework for consistent long-form video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Workspace · tool · workspace.google.com · check price
  Google's productivity suite (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets).
  Mentioned in: Cursor Agents Get Google Workspace Plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Bot (@bot on X) · tool · x.com · check price
  Grok-powered bot account on X that the creator uses to automate his LinkedIn activity.
  Mentioned in: Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Bots · tool · x.ai · paid
  Specialized AI assistant bots from xAI/X; the new Primary Bot feature lets one bot coordinate the others.
  Mentioned in: A 'Chief of Staff' Primary Bot to Manage Multiple Grok Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Team Bots · tool · x.com · paid
  A Grok feature for creating shared AI teammates with role-specific skills, plugins and credentials that learn from team use.
  Mentioned in: Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Harnessing Agentic Evolution (AEvo) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Framework that splits agent self-improvement into a candidate proposer and a procedure-editing observer.
  Mentioned in: AEvo: Splitting the Agent Self-Improvement Loop in Two (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Herdr documentation – Agent Skill · docs · herdr.dev · free
  Official Herdr docs page with the agent skill file that teaches agents to control Herdr through its CLI.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes (AI agent) · tool · github.com · free
  The personal AI agent Melvin runs for daily work, set up to switch between model providers.
  Mentioned in: Cost-Saving Model Fallback Chain: Grok → Codex → OpenRouter DeepSeek (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Buzz Integration (Messaging Platforms) · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Official docs page showing the three ways to connect Hermes Agent to Buzz and the gateway setup steps.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Configuring Models · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Hermes Agent user guide page on setting the main and auxiliary models.
  Mentioned in: Cut Hermes Agent Token Costs with Gemini Flash as an Auxiliary Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Wake Word (User Guide) · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Hermes Agent user-guide page on turning on and using local wake-word voice activation. The full path is /docs/user-guide/features/wake-word.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Agent Adds Hands-Free Voice Activation with a Wake Word (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Desktop · tool · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Nous Research's desktop agent app, which now has a built-in browser the agent can control.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Desktop Adds an Agent-Controllable In-App Browser (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• hermes-profiles · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's repo of pre-built profiles you can install into Hermes Agent.
  Mentioned in: Pre-built Installable Profiles for Hermes Agent (hermes-profiles) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HERMES.md · other · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  A convention in AI agent projects for a file that specifies the system prompt.
  Mentioned in: Claude Code Billing Gotcha: 'HERMES.md' String in Git Commits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• How to Use Jev as a Decision Model for Email Classification (AIBackends blog) · article · aibackends.com · free
  Blog post explaining how to use Jev as a decision model to classify emails.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HubSpot · tool · hubspot.com · check price
  CRM and marketing platform that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Introducing the Agents API (OpenAI) · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's official announcement of the Agents API, which supports bring-your-own-sandbox providers.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• JSONL Viewer v1.3.4 release (donvito/jsonl-viewer) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source JSONL file viewer with a traces viewer for agent sessions, including nested Codex subagent traces.
  Mentioned in: JSONL Viewer v1.3.4: Inspecting Nested Codex Subagent Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LangChain API Chain Documentation · docs · python.langchain.com · free
  LangChain docs page for APIChain. The old URL now redirects to the LangChain overview docs.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• LangGraph docs · docs · docs.langchain.com · free
  Docs for LangGraph: controllable, stateful, multi-agent orchestration.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Link · tool · stripe.com · free
  A payment service (@link) that you connect to Grok Bot so it can pay for purchases.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Can Now Make Online Purchases for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid AI blog: how our engineering teams use agent loops · article · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's engineering blog post on using agent loops and the lessons from vibe-coding a production tokenizer trainer.
  Mentioned in: Agent Loops in ML Engineering: Liquid AI's Vibe-Coded Tokenizer Trainer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mario Zechner (@badlogicgames) · person · x.com · free
  Developer behind Pi and pi-share-hf.
  Mentioned in: Share Pi Agent Traces on Hugging Face with pi-share-hf (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MaxClaw · tool · agent.minimax.io · check price
  A hosted agent inside MiniMax Agent that runs OpenClaw or pre-built experts and connects to messaging apps.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MCP Inspector · tool · github.com · free
  Official visual tool for testing and debugging MCP servers.
  Mentioned in: Testing free GLM 5.2 in Devin Desktop to create an MCP server (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MCP servers for the X API and X developer docs (X Docs) · docs · docs.x.com · free
  Official X guide to the MCP servers for the X API and developer docs, including setup configs for clients like Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Connecting the X (Twitter) MCP Server to Cursor via an OAuth 2.0 App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Melvin Vivas – full Hermes assistant build video · video · free
  The creator's full walkthrough of building this personal assistant agent.
  Mentioned in: Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Research paper on how bad ideas spread between LLM agents and persist through memory.
  Mentioned in: Mind Viruses: How Bad Ideas Spread Through Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax Agent · tool · agent.minimax.io · check price
  MiniMax's agent platform, where MaxClaw and the pre-built experts live.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax Agent (@MiniMaxAgent) on X · website · x.com · free
  The official X account for MiniMax Agent, which posts product updates and walkthroughs.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Modern Web Guidance (Antigravity skill) · tool · github.com · free
  An installable skill that helps the agent navigate the web and build good web products.
  Mentioned in: Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse (Meta) · tool · about.fb.com · free
  Meta's personal AI agent app that carries out tasks for the user in different areas of life.
  Mentioned in: Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent (and the Manus Connection) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nacho Matinas · person · linkedin.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Co-instructor of Building Adaptive AI Agents (name as it appears in the machine transcript).
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Notion Custom Agents · tool · notion.com · paid
  Notion's feature for building custom AI agents inside Notion workspaces, now with model choice including MiniMax M2.5.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax M2.5: first open-weight model in Notion Custom Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• npx skills · tool · github.com · free
  Command-line tool for installing agent skills into your skills directory.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Agent Toolkit · tool · blogs.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's toolkit for building domain-specific enterprise agents with Nemotron models, tools, skills and a secure runtime.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA Agent Toolkit: open Nemotron models for domain-specific agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OneMap API Documentation · docs · onemap.gov.sg · free
  Docs for Singapore's public OneMap API, including address and postal code search.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OneMap Common API search endpoint · tool · onemap.gov.sg · free
  The search endpoint called in the example. The link looked broken when checked.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenAI Developer Docs MCP server · tool · developers.openai.com · free
  MCP server that gives agents access to OpenAI's developer documentation.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI docs: Agent configuration – Subagents · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  OpenAI documentation on setting up subagents, which recommends using a larger model to plan and smaller ones for delegated tasks.
  Mentioned in: Cost-aware agents: big model plans, small subagents execute (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenResearch · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source project that turns coding agents into research agents for literature review, hypotheses, experiments and research artifacts.
  Mentioned in: OpenResearch: turn a coding agent into a research agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter MCP · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  An MCP server that gives agents live model benchmarks, pricing, provider speed, test inference, and OpenRouter docs search.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• pi-share-hf · repo · github.com · free
  Collect, review, and upload redacted pi session files to a Hugging Face dataset.
  Mentioned in: Share Pi Agent Traces on Hugging Face with pi-share-hf (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Portable Computer · tool · perplexity.ai · paid
  A desktop agent app that runs the agent harness, agents and models locally on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, and can also use frontier cloud models.
  Mentioned in: Portable Computer Now Runs AI Agents and Models Locally on NVIDIA RTX PCs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Postiz · tool · postiz.com · free
  Open-source social media scheduling tool for agents, supporting about 30 channels, with a CLI and an MCP server.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Postiz open-source repository (gitroomhq/postiz-app) · repo · github.com · free
  Self-hostable source code of Postiz, a real-world open-source app with agent, CLI and MCP integrations.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Qwen's native language world model that simulates agent environments such as MCP, terminal, SWE, web, OS and Android.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-AgentWorld: a single world model simulating 7 agent environments (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• r/LocalLLaMA – Been using Pi coding agent with local Qwen 3.6 35B · community · reddit.com · free
  Reddit thread in the local-LLM community about using the Pi agent with a local Qwen 3.6 model.
  Mentioned in: Running Pi Coding Agent with a Local Qwen 3.6 Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models · paper · arxiv.org · free
  The paper behind the ReAct agent pattern, which interleaves reasoning steps with tool actions.
  Mentioned in: 17-Step AI Engineer Roadmap: From Basic RAG to Agents, Evals, LLMOps & Governance (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Release Coworker v0.3.0 · donvito/coworker · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release page with Coworker v0.3.0 downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.3.0: Telegram Messaging, File Return and PowerPoint Export (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Rox · tool · rox.com · paid
  An AI sales-agent product that retrieves from transcripts, emails, CRM notes, news and documents.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev as a Reranker to Augment RAG Retrieval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Runpod: Building an internal AI agent and the data foundations it needs (Charlotte Daniels) · article · infoworld.com · free
  Runpod's Head of Data on what building an internal AI data agent taught them about data foundations.
  Mentioned in: Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• sbx CLI (Docker Sandboxes CLI) · tool · docs.docker.com · free
  Command-line tool for creating and managing Docker Sandboxes, locally or in the cloud.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• skillsbento – x-for-you-growth skill · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's agent skill built from the X For You algorithm code, for growth advice on X.
  Mentioned in: Turning the X 'For You' Algorithm Code into an Agent Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SkillsMP – Agent Skills Marketplace · website · skillsmp.com · free
  Free marketplace of Agent Skills for Codex and Claude.
  Mentioned in: SkillsMP: Free Marketplace of 364K Agent Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Slack MCP · tool · docs.slack.dev · check price
  An MCP server that connects AI agents to Slack.
  Mentioned in: Sharing Canvases and Design Mode Edits in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• smolagents · docs · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face's minimalist agent framework.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Subagents | Cursor Docs · docs · cursor.com · free
  Cursor's official guide to setting up and using subagents.
  Mentioned in: Learn Subagents in Cursor and Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TanStack AI · tool · github.com · free
  A TanStack library for building AI chat and agent features into apps, now with subagent support.
  Mentioned in: TanStack AI Adds Subagents for Streaming Multi-Agent UIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tavus · tool · tavus.io · check price
  A platform for real-time conversational AI video avatars that people can talk to face to face.
  Mentioned in: Tavus Demo: Lifelike Real-Time Conversational Video AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• The ultimate guide to multi-harness RL (FineEnvs, Hugging Face Space) · article · huggingface.co · free
  A Hugging Face Space guide explaining multi-harness reinforcement learning and why the best harness depends on the model.
  Mentioned in: There Is No Best Agent Harness: Guide to Multi-Harness RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tomy's AI Garage (YouTube channel) · channel · free
  The creator's YouTube channel with videos on AI and agents, including a beginner's guide to Buzz.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Visual Lab Expert · tool · check price
  A pre-built MiniMax expert for image generation tasks such as logos.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WhatsApp · tool · whatsapp.com · free · link looked broken
  Messaging app that MaxClaw can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Wikipedia · website · wikipedia.org · free
  Free online encyclopedia that the on-device agent uses as a tool to look up current facts.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Running Agentic Tasks Fully On-Device on a Phone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Developer Portal · website · developer.x.com · check price
  X's portal for creating API apps and getting OAuth credentials.
  Mentioned in: Connecting the X (Twitter) MCP Server to Cursor via an OAuth 2.0 App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X MCP · tool · github.com · free
  An MCP integration that lets AI agents work with X.
  Mentioned in: X Launches an MCP Server (X MCP) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Twitter Stats Analyzer (skillsbento) · tool · skillsbento.com · free
  A free, open-source agent skill for analyzing X/Twitter account stats.
  Mentioned in: X/Twitter stats analyzer agent skill from skillsbento (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Build

• Have a general agent install and run a coding agent (like Codex) so long tasks keep going while you are away. (from An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own)
• Build a lead-generation agent that searches the web and writes leads to a Google Sheet, with one tab per industry. (from Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet)
• Set up a primary orchestrator agent that sends incoming requests to specialized sub-agents. (from Chief-of-staff bot that delegates to other bots)
• Build a scheduled 'chief of staff' agent that sends a morning digest, finds leads, writes them to Google Sheets and summarizes updates from your other agents. (from Morning digest from a chief-of-staff agent)
• Build a Codex workflow where a strong model plans and hands subtasks to cheaper subagent models. (from Codex Orchestrator Pattern: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents)
• Build a voice-driven travel-booking agent that follows constraints (company policy, refundable fares), checks the total before checkout, and sends screenshots and map links so the user can choose. (from Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage)
• Build a feedback-triage agent: pull messages from a Slack channel, cluster them into themes, link them to Linear tickets and PRs, rank the themes that have no fix yet, and post replies with the PR link asking users to retest once a fix ships. (from Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage)
• Build an agent that finds the top unanswered Slack messages and drafts replies for a human to review. (from Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage)
• Build an LLM council where several models answer and critique each other before a final answer is produced. (from LLM Council Agent in Pi Using Codex and Claude Models)
• Set up a 'Chief of Staff' orchestrator agent that monitors your specialized agents, delegates tasks to them and summarizes their status. (from A 'Chief of Staff' Primary Bot to Manage Multiple Grok Bots)
• Build an email classifier that uses Jev as the decision model. (from Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification)
• Log structural traces from a voice or chat agent (turns, tool calls, workflow stage, timing) and train a lightweight model to forecast call outcomes turn by turn without using transcript content. (from Jev Decision Model: Forecasting AI Receptionist Calls from Structure Alone)
• Measure the latency of a real-time per-turn prediction model and aim for a median around 100 ms so it can run during live calls. (from Jev Decision Model: Forecasting AI Receptionist Calls from Structure Alone)
• Turn one of your own workflow bots (for example, a coding assistant linked to GitHub) into a public template with clear setup instructions so others can copy your flow. (from Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots)
• Build a hybrid multi-agent workflow where local Gemma 4 agents audit, patch and test code privately, coordinated by a cloud model. (from Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK)
• Build a chat UI where several subagents each stream their output into their own card. (from TanStack AI Adds Subagents for Streaming Multi-Agent UIs)
• Build a Codex multi-agent setup where one strong model orchestrates and cheaper or faster subagent models do the work. (from Codex Orchestrator v0.2.1: GPT-6 Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents)
• Build an internal text-to-SQL data-analyst agent, and first document and clean the warehouse schema it will query. (from Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod))
• Build a more advanced orchestration skill that combines the best parts of the Fusion, Advisor and orchestrator/subagent patterns, possibly on the Pi harness. (from Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor)
• Build an agent where an expensive advisor model guides cheaper executor models, then compare cost and quality against a single-model setup. (from Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models)
• Build a research agent or RAG system on top of a subset of the arXiv dataset (for example, the LaTeX or HTML of one field). (from The complete arXiv corpus as a Hugging Face dataset)
• Add sandboxed execution environments to a desktop AI-agent app such as Coworker. (from Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents)
• Build an on-device iPhone assistant that uses Gemma4-E2B tool calling locally. (from Running Gemma4-E2B tool calling locally on an iPhone)
• Compare a cheap LLM using structured WebMCP tools against a frontier model using computer use on the same web tasks, measuring both success rate and cost. (from Jev + WebMCP Solves 100% of Benchmark Tasks at About 112× Lower Cost)
• Build a generalist agent that classifies each user request and routes it to a specialist sub-agent. (from Intent Classification and Routing in a Multi-Agent Desktop App)
• Build an easy-to-install desktop AI agent app for non-technical users that supports local and cloud models (from Coworker: an open-source AI agent desktop app for non-technical users)
• Make a custom orchestrator/subagent profile for Codex tuned to your own workflow (from Codex orchestrator + subagents setup with configurable profiles)
• Have a coding agent (Codex) turn an architecture diagram into a narrated explainer video, with ElevenLabs for the voice. (from OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop)
• Build a small version of the software factory loop: an agent writes code, CI runs tests, parallel reviewer agents (security, infra), a risk check that routes risky changes to a human, and a monitoring agent that sends production issues back as new tasks. (from OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop)
• Build a Telegram or Discord bot front end for your own AI agent. (from Coworker v0.6.1: Connect AI Coworkers to Telegram and Discord Bots)
• Add WebMCP tools to one of your own web apps (e.g., theme switching, batch jobs) so an agent can run them. (from WebMCP: Exposing Existing App Features as Agent Tools)
• Use a coding agent with OpenResearch to turn a research paper into a working code implementation. (from OpenResearch: turn a coding agent into a research agent)
• Build your own agentic desktop app, using existing agents like Hermes as inspiration, to practise agent development. (from Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models)
• Add a chat-platform integration (for example Discord threads) to your own agent app, with messages synced to the main client. (from Coworker v0.6.0 Adds Discord Integration for AI Agents)
• Build a chat-and-code app where a frontier model orchestrates and local or open models run as subagents. (from Frontier Model as Orchestrator, Local Open Models as Subagents)
• Build a 'software factory' UI with React Flow that lets teams manage coding agents connected to sandboxes, starting with mock APIs. (from One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19)
• Build a 'Software Factory' app: generate the UI with Codex, then use the OpenAI Agents API with a sandbox provider (E2B, Daytona, Modal, etc.) as the backend. (from OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory')
• Build a 'software factory' dashboard that connects to sandboxed coding agents and lets you manage them from one interface instead of a kanban board. (from Claude Code mockup: a UI for managing agents in sandboxes)
• Run a fully local agent setup with LM Studio Bionic and Qwen3.8 27B. (from Bionic by LM Studio: An Agent App for Local Models)
• Set up opencode with a cloud orchestrator model and local open models (e.g. Qwen) as subagents. (from Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models)
• Build a 'software factory' product on top of the OpenAI Agents API. (from Building Software Factories on the OpenAI Agents API (Codex-Powered))
• Build a voice agent app with GPT-Live-1. (from GPT-Live-1 Voice Agents in the API, and Charlie Guo)
• Build an incident-investigation agent. It connects to observability data and recent code changes through MCP, follows an outage runbook skill, uses sub-agents for telemetry and code changes, and outputs a root-cause report with evidence and next steps. (from OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents)
• Build a 'Software Factory': agents running Codex inside sandboxes to automate software development. (from OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents)
• Build a voice agent that hands actions (for example, controlling a robot or updating a display) to a backend model while the conversation keeps going, like the launch demo. (from GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API)
• Add a voice interface to a coding agent such as Codex (the creator's wish). (from GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API)
• Build your own multi-model orchestrator profiles for Codex, with a strong model as lead and cheaper subagents. (from Codex Orchestrator Profiles: Astra/Sol Lead, Luna Subagents)
• Add simple markdown-file memory to a local agent, editable by chat or by hand. (from Coworker v0.5.0: Local Desktop Agent with Markdown Memory)
• Set up a multi-agent Codex workflow where an expensive orchestrator model delegates work to cheap subagent models, with switchable config profiles. (from Codex orchestrator/subagents setup: Astra or Sol + Luna)
• Build a desktop agent app that can switch between cloud (OpenRouter) and local (Ollama/LM Studio) model backends. (from Coworker: Free Desktop AI Agent App with Cloud or Local Models)
• Build a multi-agent video pipeline in Codex: one subagent each for b-roll search and download, music, voiceover, motion graphics, and a final review step. (from Using Codex Subagents to Produce a Video End-to-End with No Manual Edits)
• Run Coworker in headless mode to automate recurring agent tasks with a local model. (from Coworker v0.4.1: Open-Source Desktop AI Agent App Adds CLI & Headless Mode)
• Build a personal agent that runs on local models (Ollama or LM Studio) and connect it to a Telegram bot. (from Coworker: open-source agent that runs on local models)
• Set up a multi-agent Codex workflow with a large model for planning and small models for subtasks. (from Codex setup: Astra orchestrator with Luna subagents)
• Build a TUI that saves and applies reusable agent or subagent configuration sets for each project. (from A TUI for Managing Codex Subagent Configurations)
• Build an agent that handles social-media engagement and logs leads into a Google Sheet. (from Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads)
• Build an eval app for local or OpenAI-compatible models with a Codex orchestrator/subagent workflow. (from Codex Orchestrator/Subagent Setup: Astra (medium) + Luna (max))
• Build a frontend subagent in Codex with its own design skill and MCP tools (from Codex Subagents: Attaching Skills and MCP Servers per Subagent)
• Build preset Codex profiles for different subagent/model/reasoning combinations and pick one based on how complex the project is. (from Codex Subagents: Astra Orchestrator + Luna Workers, and How to Swap Models)
• Set up a Codex orchestrator/worker/reviewer agent system that mixes expensive and cheap models to manage cost. (from Codex Orchestrator: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents)
• Compare cost and quality of different orchestrator and subagent model combinations in Codex. (from Testing Model Combinations for Codex Orchestration)
• Use an orchestrator agent plus subagents in Codex to generate smoke tests for a CRM app. (from Orchestrator + Subagents in Codex: Astra Leads, Luna Builds a CRM Smoke Test)
• Build an orchestrator-subagent coding workflow that pairs a strong model with cheaper subagent models. (from Codex orchestrator (Astra/Sol) with Luna subagents: example repo)
• Run an AI agent on an on-demand cloud Mac instance for macOS-specific tasks. (from Namespace macOS Instances as Computers for AI Agents)
• Build your own desktop agent app on top of an existing agent framework such as Pi. (from Coworker: An Agent App Inspired by Grok Bot, Built on Pi)
• Connect a local-model agent to Telegram and browser use to automate personal tasks. (from Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for Local-Model AI Agents)
• Build a travel-booking agent that searches flights and stays, checks loyalty miles, and asks for human approval before it books. (from ChatGPT Work: A Cloud Agent Built on the Codex Harness That Books Travel)
• Build a router that judges how hard a subagent task is and picks a suitable model automatically. (from Wish: Automatic Model Selection for Codex Subagents)
• An agent that watches for available domain names and buys them. (from Grok Bot Can Now Make Online Purchases for You)
• Agent that creates invoices (from Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents)
• Agent that researches LinkedIn profiles for lead generation (from Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents)
• Scheduled agent that sends stock price updates (from Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents)
• Agent that reads a receipt image and logs it to a CSV (from Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents)
• Turn one of your own workflow bots (for example a coding assistant using GitHub and Cursor) into a template that installs itself, with clear setup instructions for MCP servers and API keys. (from Grok Bot Templates: How to Share, Publish, Install and Check Bot Blueprints)
• Connect Firecrawl keyless web search to an agent app (the creator plans this with Coworker) so the agent can search and read live web pages as markdown. (from Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key)
• Build a work agent that runs on small local models and handles real tasks such as creating invoices, triggered from a Telegram message. (from Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models)
• Build a pipeline that turns a coding agent's traces (tool calls, errors, fixes) into reusable skills that a human approves before reuse. (from Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs)
• Build a code knowledge graph of a repository (imports, function calls, change history, co-edits) that updates automatically, and use it for agent context retrieval instead of keyword search. (from Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs)
• Build your own agent desktop app by combining an agent runtime (Pi), a chat UI (CopilotKit), web search (Firecrawl) and local or cloud models. (from Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack)
• Build your own Grok Bot-style 'coworker' agent using Pi, CopilotKit and Firecrawl. (from Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit)
• Add an approval step and a task scheduler to an agent app. (from Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit)
• Build a human-in-the-loop approval service that pauses agent actions until someone approves or rejects them. (from Let agents run on their own and build an approval layer)
• Set up several specialized Hermes bots (e.g., a researcher and a scheduler), each with its own MCP servers and cron jobs. (from Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile)
• Build an agent that monitors X and summarizes fresh, relevant posts on topics you follow. (from An X research bot built with Hermes)
• Benchmark several agent harnesses on the same task, comparing median input tokens and cost per completed run. (from Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI)
• Serve a local LLM on a GPU PC with llama.cpp and point an agent running on another machine at it. (from Running a Local Ornith Model as the Backend for a Hermes Agent)
• Benchmark a small open model's tool calling in a Colab notebook. (from Free Colab Notebooks: LFM2.5 2.6B Tool Calling and Benchmarks)
• Collect agent harness traces and build a loop that improves the harness from your own usage. (from DeepSeek harness: open-source agent with an inspectable trajectory view)
• Use an agent loop to vibe-code a small ML tool, such as a tokenizer trainer. (from Agent Loops in ML Engineering: Liquid AI's Vibe-Coded Tokenizer Trainer)
• Build an agent with an inner loop that fixes its output and an outer loop that tunes its own prompts and tools across runs. (from AutoDesign: Improving the Harness Around the Model with a Meta-Harness Loop)
• Use a local agent to research and compare open models that fit your GPU's VRAM. (from Running Qwen 3.8 27B locally in Hermes agent on an RTX 3090)
• Run several isolated Hermes agent instances in Docker for different personal tasks. (from GAIA: free Docker installer for multiple Hermes agents)
• Run a local agent with a quantized ~27B model (Q4_K_M) on a single 24 GB GPU (from Running a Hermes agent locally on Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4_K_M) on an RTX 3090)
• Build a tool-calling chat with a small local model (LFM2.5-2.6B) in Colab (from DonvitoCodes Colab notebooks for running local models (LFM2.5-2.6B))
• Build an orchestrator agent that hands off simple subtasks to a cheaper model and keeps hard reasoning on a stronger model, then compare token cost. (from Multi-agent delegation to lower-cost models to save Codex limits)
• Build a multi-provider AI API server that has agent endpoints. (from Adding Agent Capabilities to ai-backends with Pi)
• Turn an open-source codebase or spec into an agent skill your coding assistant can use. (from Turning the X 'For You' Algorithm Code into an Agent Skill)
• Build an agent that reads readings from a photo of a health device and appends them to a CSV log for your doctor. (from Logging blood pressure from a screenshot with a personal AI agent)
• Build a computer-use agent that works in its own browser instance and records a user's workflow, then turns it into a repeatable automation. (from Grok Bot: Computer-Use AI Agents as Teammates (Early Beta Demo))
• Build a meeting agent that pulls discovery notes and generates a slide deck before the call ends. (from Grok Bot: Computer-Use AI Agents as Teammates (Early Beta Demo))
• Build a cloud-native agent runtime that swaps the local filesystem for a storage-backed virtual filesystem (e.g., object storage or a database). (from Agents Aren't Cloud Native Because They Rely on Filesystems)
• Add a minimal coding agent with Pi's four primitive tools to your own app. (from Pi Coding Agent: Four Built-In Tools (read, bash, edit, write))
• Set up an agent that checks a long-running terminal job, sends you screenshots, and passes your approvals to a coding agent. (from Using a Hermes agent to watch the terminal and drive Codex)
• Run a self-hosted agent on a small local model with tool calling and web search. (from Serve LFM2.5-2.6B with vLLM and connect it to Hermes)
• Build a small tool-calling benchmark: give a small model and a large model the same multi-tool jobs, count a job as passed only if every required tool call is made, and compare pass rate and speed. (from LFM2.5-2.6B Matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Tool Calling; LEAP Fine-Tuning)
• Build a personal AI agent backed by a local Qwen model on a consumer GPU. (from Running Qwen 3.6 35B locally on an RTX 3090 for agent tool calling)
• Run Hermes Agent with DeepSeek V4 Flash as the backend model and test it on terminal or automation tasks (from DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent)
• Build an automated URL-to-video pipeline that turns a news page (for example, daily AI news) into short videos using an agent plus HyperFrames. (from Hermes Agent + HyperFrames: Turning a Web Page into a Video)
• Set up your own Buzz community with a Hermes agent running next to ChatGPT and Claude bots, so you have a multi-agent team workspace. (from Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway)
• Deploy a stateless remote MCP server behind a load balancer (from MCP 2026-07-28: The Protocol Is Now Stateless)
• Set up several domain-specific Hermes agents, each in its own Docker container. (from Run a Separate Hermes Agent per Domain with Docker)
• Build a command centre that runs and manages several Hermes agents in Docker containers. (from Building an Agent Command Centre with Hermes Agents in Docker)
• Build a fully local, free personal AI agent with Hermes Agent and LM Studio (from Run Hermes Agent locally with Qwen 3.6 35B MTP in LM Studio)
• Set up a personal AI assistant to draft routine letters and paperwork (from Using Hermes Agent as a personal assistant to write documents)
• Build a local personal agent that reads your portfolio data and explains daily changes in plain language. (from Local Personal AI Agent to Explain Your Investment Portfolio)
• Set up a free local personal assistant: Hermes Agent connected to a Qwen model served by LM Studio. (from Free Personal Assistant: Hermes Agent + Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP in LM Studio)
• Have an agent turn a short request into a finished video using a video-creation tool such as Hyperframes. (from Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes)
• A daily briefing agent that sends your calendar, overnight messages, top three priorities, and what to ignore today. (from Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage)
• An email triage agent that sorts mail into needs me now, can wait, and ignore, and drafts replies only you can send. (from Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage)
• A family assistant agent that manages a shared grocery list and the kids' schedules. (from Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage)
• Have an agent make a short video with Hyperframes. (from Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage)
• Build an agent that drafts and publishes your LinkedIn posts. (from Hermes Agent Automates LinkedIn Posting)
• Write your own profile for a specific domain persona and package it so others can install it (from Pre-built Installable Profiles for Hermes Agent (hermes-profiles))
• Run Hermes Agent with local models on a consumer GPU (from Running Hermes Agent with Local Models on an RTX 3090)
• Build a portfolio-monitoring agent that watches news about your holdings and sends pre/post-market summaries and updates every 30 minutes during trading hours. (from Using a Personal AI Agent to Monitor a Stock Portfolio)
• Add image generation to a personal AI agent by having the agent set up an image model API itself. (from Ask Your Agent to Configure Itself: Adding Image Generation)
• Build an agent-driven pipeline that produces explainer videos automatically, leaving only music and the outro to add by hand. (from Automating Explainer Videos with a Hermes AI Agent Workflow)
• Build an agent that takes a screenshot of an event message, extracts the date, time and title, and creates a calendar event with a reminder. (from Personal Agent Use Case: Turn School-App Screenshots into Calendar Events)
• Set up a shared household agent that manages a common family calendar and answers questions about schedules and tasks. (from Using a Shared Hermes Agent for Family Calendar Management)
• Build a deadline-reminder flow that pulls dates from screenshots of a school app. (from Everyday Non-Coding Uses for a Personal AI Agent)
• Add an MCP server and CLI to an existing app so AI agents can drive it, for example scheduling a month of social posts from one content source. (from How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes)
• Build an agent that turns a content source (such as a blog or video) into social media posts and schedules them across platforms through the Postiz API or MCP. (from How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes)
• Build a 'CEO AI Brain': an agent that answers business questions from a company database and shows the answers as charts. (from CEO AI Brain: agents answer business questions with charts)
• Build a SaaS landing page with a cheap model you picked through the OpenRouter MCP, then compare the designs from several models. (from OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent)
• Add the OpenRouter Python SDK to a SaaS app so it can route requests to cheaper, capable models and cut token costs. (from OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent)
• Build a basic MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Claude Code. (from Building a basic MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Claude Code)
• Build a simple MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Devin Desktop. (from Testing free GLM 5.2 in Devin Desktop to create an MCP server)
• Build a Python automation that runs Codex in a sandbox to fix code or generate patches inside your workflow. (from Codex Python SDK: embed Codex in your Python apps)
• Try a large migration or refactor (such as porting a module to another language) using Claude Code dynamic workflows with parallel subagents. (from Dynamic workflows: Claude Code running hundreds of parallel subagents)
• Build a local agent that uses a small model to automate tasks in a mobile app simulator. (from Gemma 4 E4B Driving an iOS Simulator With Argent)
• Build a two-agent loop: one agent proposes solutions, the other reviews results and rewrites the proposer's procedure (from AEvo: Splitting the Agent Self-Improvement Loop in Two)
• Build a desktop assistant that takes a screenshot plus pointer coordinates whenever you say 'this', 'that', 'here' or 'there', and sends speech, screenshot and coordinates to a multimodal model like Gemini so it can run actions such as adding items to a list or editing a calendar event. (from Multimodal AI Pointer: Combining Voice, Mouse Pointing and Vision with Gemini)
• Consumer travel translation app using GPT-Realtime-Translate for live two-way conversation across 70 languages (from GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• Personal voice assistant that reads your calendar and updates your CRM with meeting briefs and next steps (from GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• Multilingual customer-support or education voice tool built on realtime translation (from GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• A personal voice assistant that reads your calendar, briefs you before meetings and updates your CRM with notes and next steps. (from GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• A live speech-translation tool for presentations, customer support or education across many languages. (from GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• A voice interface for dashboards or connected devices, built on parallel tool calling. (from GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation)
• Set up a fully local coding agent (Pi + Qwen 3.6 35B) and compare speed with and without prefix-cache reuse. (from Running Pi Coding Agent with a Local Qwen 3.6 Model)
• Add a Cursor SDK agent to a CI/CD pipeline that reviews or fixes code automatically on each pull request. (from Cursor SDK: Build Agents on Cursor's Runtime, Harness and Models)
• Use the Cursor SDK to put an agent inside your own app. (from Cursor SDK: Build Agents on Cursor's Runtime, Harness and Models)
• Build a Claude Code workflow that hands off specialized subtasks (image generation, speech-to-text, OCR) to Hugging Face Spaces and then combines the results. (from Calling Hugging Face Spaces from Claude Code as Agent Tools)
• Build an agent that streams A2UI components into an existing React or Flutter app using the Python SDK. (from A2UI v0.9: A Portable Standard for Agent-Generated UI)
• Build an on-device personal assistant with Gemma 4 that logs mood-journal entries and analyzes the trend over the last 7 days. (from Gemma 4 Running Agentic Tasks Fully On-Device on a Phone)
• Build a local agent that connects a small model to calendar, maps and Wikipedia tools. (from Gemma 4 Running Agentic Tasks Fully On-Device on a Phone)
• Build a multimodal app that takes a photo and suggests music to match its mood. (from Gemma 4 Running Agentic Tasks Fully On-Device on a Phone)
• Set up a few specialized Gemini CLI subagents (for example a reviewer and a tester) and hand them tasks in parallel. (from Gemini CLI Adds Subagents with Separate Context Windows)
• Build a local repo-audit agent that runs a small quantized model and executes Bash tool calls. (from Gemma 4 E4B: A Local Agentic Edge Model in 6GB RAM)
• Connect a local Qwen 3.5 model to your own agent framework or SDK (from Free, Unlimited Agentic AI with Local Qwen 3.5)
• Write your own modular agent skill that gives a coding agent deep project context. (from Agent Skills: Modular On-Demand Context, and skillsbento)
• Generate a logo for your tech startup by chatting with the Visual Lab expert through Telegram. (from Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram)
• Natural-language address and postal code lookup over Singapore's OneMap API. (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)
• E-commerce search that turns natural-language queries into product API calls instead of filter UIs (for example, on a classified ads site). (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)
• Finance assistant that answers questions like 'What is the current stock price of Amazon?' through a financial API. (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)
• Travel assistant that searches flights and hotels through travel APIs. (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)
• Healthcare information bot that pulls from healthcare APIs. (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)
• Education assistant that answers student questions in real time through educational APIs. (from Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI)