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SlopTV Streams AI-Generated Content Using Local Compute Power

Developers explore local-first AI agents with SlopTV, leveraging local hardware over cloud solutions.

Why it mattersThe shift to local-first AI agents challenges cloud dependence by focusing on data control and privacy. For developers, this means grappling with high upfront costs and the technical demands of running sophisticated models locally.

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DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

github | stars 118,186

zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base S…

github | stars 33,038

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Research

Logos: An Agent Harness on a Cross-Process Bus

Modern agent systems assemble capabilities at runtime, and this dynamic composition has recently received a complete formal treat ment in the spatiotemporal-composability calculus, in which a capability is a component c…

arxiv

Playbooks

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them) through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for…

devblogs.microsoft

Selecting The Right AI Evals Tool

Over the past year, I’ve focused heavily on AI Evals , both in my consulting work and teaching. A question I get constantly is, “What’s the best tool for evals?”. I’ve always resisted answering directly for two reasons.…

hamel

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