llms.txt
# heatdrop.ai
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Full editorial text: https://heatdrop.ai/llms-full.txt
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## Editorial features
- [The Open-Source Pentest Agent That Admits What It Can't Do](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/vxcontrol/pentagi/2026-10-14): PentAGI packages autonomous penetration testing as a self-hosted multi-agent system — and its most interesting engineering is the supervision machinery that keeps small models from wandering off task.
- [The Best AI Video Generator Is a Coding Model](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/yihui-dev/awesome-opus5-5-videos/2026-10-14): A GitHub list of 389 viral Claude Opus 5.5 videos argues that motion graphics' future runs through code, not diffusion — and the prompts are the proof.
- [Living Off the Land: The Router That Turns Free Tiers Into One API](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi/2026-10-13): FreeLLMAPI stacks sixteen providers' free tiers behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint — and its real innovation is an honest rate-limit ledger.
- [The YC President Open-Sourced His Engineering Org](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/garrytan/gstack/2026-10-13): gstack is Garry Tan's bet that the scarce resource in AI-assisted software is no longer code — it's process, and one person running a disciplined pipeline of agents can now do the work of a team.
- [The "Open" in Open Higgsfield Is Doing a Lot of Work](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/wide-trace/open-higgsfield/2026-10-12): A free, catalog-driven studio for 32 image and video models — as long as you bring a paid key to the generation platform behind it.
- [The Input Method That Turns Typing Into Flashcards](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/qingjian-team/qingjian/2026-10-12): Qingjian is a Rust-built pinyin IME that quietly appends foreign translations to every candidate — betting that the software you use most should also be the software that teaches you the most.
- [Anthropic Open-Sourced Its Workflows, and They're Just Markdown. That's the Point.](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/2026-10-11): Eleven role-specific plugin bundles turn Claude from a chatbot into a colleague — and their most radical feature is that there's no code in them at all.
- [The Reverse-Engineering Agent That Refuses to Guess](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/morluto/rea/2026-10-11): REA hands coding agents Hopper and Ghidra and asks them to investigate binaries the way a careful human analyst would — with evidence, citations, and an honest ledger of everything they still don't know.
- [The Autonomous Pentester That's Forbidden From Pentesting](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/mhtsec/ARTEX/2026-10-10): ARTEX is a multi-agent attack system whose own terms bar it from ever touching a live target — a preserved specimen of how far agentic offense engineering has gotten.
- [125 Billion Parameters, One Gaming PC, No Server in Sight](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/Niko1221/Strata/2026-10-10): Strata tiers a huge mixture-of-experts model across GPU, RAM, and SSD so a server-class AI runs — briskly — on hardware you already own.
- [Your Agent Doesn't Need a Vector Database. It Needs grep.](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/aakarim/OpenLore/2026-10-09): OpenLore bets that the missing piece of agent infrastructure isn't smarter retrieval — it's a governed filesystem every agent can share.
- [Vibecoded in Rust, Aimed at Adobe: What ArtCraft Actually Is](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/storytold/artcraft/2026-10-09): A four-person team open-sourced an AI-native creative suite that treats text prompting as prototyping and scene-blocking as the real craft — and the press can't decide whether it's an Adobe killer or a filmmaker's IDE.
- [A C++ Engine Walks Into the Python Orchestration Party](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/rocketride-org/rocketride-server/2026-10-08): RocketRide bets that AI pipelines deserve a compiled runtime, portable JSON definitions, and a home inside your IDE rather than a browser tab.
- [Every Agent Forgets. claude-mem Made That a Business.](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/thedotmack/claude-mem/2026-10-08): A hook-driven memory layer for Claude Code has ridden the agent-hype wave to nearly 100k stars — by treating forgetting as an engineering problem, and a revenue opportunity.
- [The Browser Agent That Picks Instead of Writes](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/browser-use/jev-ultrafast/2026-10-07): Jev Ultrafast turns web automation into a multiple-choice problem — one decision model, one numbered list, one network round trip per step — and the speed follows.
- [The Cheapest Way to Make an Agent Draw](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/QingYunA/answer-me-with-html/2026-10-07): Answer me with HTML splits the labor: the model writes content, a bundled CLI does the layout — and the waiting time collapses while the bill stays the same.
- [The Rig That Wraps Your Agent Harnesses](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/mvschwarz/openrig/2026-10-06): OpenRig bets that the thing worth managing isn't any single coding agent — it's the topology they form when you run a dozen of them at once.
- [Eleven Claude Skills Walk an App From Recon to Rival](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill/2026-10-06): replica-skill is a pipeline of prompt files and six small Python tools that clones what an app does — and, more interestingly, refuses to clone what it owns.
- [The Open-Source Auditor That Hands Every AI Agent an F](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/ifixai-ai/iFixAi/2026-10-05): iFixAi runs 32 fixture-driven misalignment inspections against any agent you point it at — and its first three public subjects all failed.
- [The Methodology That Outgrew Its IDE](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/2026-10-05): pstack-claude is an unofficial port of Lauren Tan's Cursor discipline system — proof that the valuable part of an agent workflow was never the IDE it ran in.
- [The Paper Translator That Throws the PDF Away](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/Edwardxlai/easyread/2026-10-04): EasyRead treats academic translation as a typesetting problem rather than an overlay problem — and keeps every note, highlight, and conversation on your own disk.
- [The Memory Layer That Refuses to Summarize](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/chunxiaoxx/nautilus-compass/2026-10-04): Built on a single wager — that compressing memory at write time bets on questions you can't know — it writes raw text, spends every cycle at read time, and ships drift detection nobody else has.
- [Four Thousand Plugins, One Warning Label](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/awesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin/2026-10-04): DeepSeek's agent harness spawned four thousand community plugins in seven weeks; this bilingual list is where they get counted, sorted, and warned about.
- [The Browser That Only Renders When You Ask](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/lexmount/moli/2026-10-04): A Rust headless browser whose bet is that agents need page structure, not a maintained visual world — so layout and paint are computed on demand, frozen, and thrown away.
- [The Double-Click On-Ramp to DeepSeek's Agent Platform](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/dsh-tauri/deepseek-harness-desktop/2026-10-04): DeepSeek Harness arrived with 243,000 GitHub stars and a Node.js-shaped front door; this Tauri shell swaps the npm ritual for a download, with a self-healing kernel underneath.
- [When the Agent Builds the App, Who Deploys It?](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/mikehasa/golive-skill/2026-09-26): GoLive is an open-source skill that lets coding agents provision real infrastructure—hosting, databases, payments—through your own accounts, with human approval at every write.
- [System 1 at 33 Milliseconds: The Non-Autoregressive Bet Against Generative AI](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/NandhaKishorM/laya/2026-09-26): Laya is a multilingual decision engine that trades text generation for typed, calibrated judgments in a single forward pass, targeting the latency and hallucination costs of routing work through large language models.
- [Inside Magpie, the Universal Remote for AI Coding Agents](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/yetone/magpie/2026-09-25): A tiny menu-bar utility surgically edits a dozen agent configs and runs a local API gateway so your Claude Code subscription can power Codex.
- [Hindsight and the Case for Agents That Learn, Not Just Remember](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/vectorize-io/hindsight/2026-09-25): Vectorize’s open-source memory system treats persistence as structured reasoning, not vector retrieval.
- [Why Google Is Building a Distributed Operating System for AI Agents](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/google/ax/2026-09-24): AX is a distributed runtime that treats agent execution as a durable, resumable event stream rather than a stateless API call.
- [Local Code, Remote AI: WebCodex Keeps Repos at Home](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/yyjeqhc/webcodex/2026-09-24): An open-source Apache 2.0 project turns your laptop into a controlled staging ground for cloud-hosted AI agents, letting them read, edit, and test code through standard protocols while the repository never leaves your machine.
- [ZCode Bets the Full IDE Is the Only Harness That Matters](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/zai-org/ZCode/2026-09-23): Zhipu AI open-sourced a complete desktop, web, and terminal environment to argue that GLM-5.3’s real value lives in the loop around the model, not just the weights.
- [The Recursive Art of Eating Your Own Dogfood](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/anthropics/claude-code/2026-09-23): Anthropic’s terminal-based agent is less a coding assistant than a directed coworker—one that already handles the bulk of its own maintenance.
- [Jev Chat: The AI Copilot That Reads Your Screen, Not Your APIs](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/jev-chat/jev-chat-jarvis/2026-09-22): An open-source Android assistant uses accessibility services and a structured judgment model to suggest replies inside WeChat, QQ, and X without ever touching an official API.
- [Why Cloudflare Open-Sourced the Seed of Its AI Vulnerability Harness](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/cloudflare/security-audit-skill/2026-09-22): A coding-agent skill that orchestrates parallel LLM auditors through adversarial validation to find exploitable bugs, not checklist deviations.
- [The Infrastructure Layer AI Agents Did Not Know They Needed](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/trycua/cua/2026-09-21): CUA is an open-source stack that provides the virtual machines, drivers, and benchmarks that let autonomous agents safely interact with desktop operating systems—so agent builders do not have to reinvent the computer.
- [The Open-Source Job Hunt That Runs Inside Your AI Coding CLI](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/career-ops-hq/career-ops/2026-09-19): Career-ops treats job searching as a local, agentic workflow inside Claude Code and Gemini CLI, filtering hundreds of listings rather than spamming them.
- [An Open-Source Sales OS Built for WhatsApp and AI Agents](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/melgarafael/DeskcommCRM/2026-09-17): It treats large language models as first-class sales reps with tenant-isolated memory, skills, and audit trails—self-hosted for the price of a VPS.
- [WeKnora: Tencent’s Bid to Make Enterprise RAG Boring](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/Tencent/WeKnora/2026-09-17): Tencent’s open-source knowledge framework wants to turn scattered documents into a self-updating, permissioned corporate wiki, and the GitHub stars suggest enterprises are paying attention.
- [Why Tencent is betting on git to tame your team’s AI chaos](https://heatdrop.ai/editorial/Tencent/teamai-cli/2026-09-16): TeamAI CLI treats prompts, skills, and model context as version-controlled team infrastructure rather than private IDE settings.
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## Top repositories
- [openclaw/openclaw](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/openclaw/openclaw): The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
- [obra/superpowers](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/obra/superpowers): An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
- [mattpocock/skills](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/mattpocock/skills): Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
- [affaan-m/ECC](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/affaan-m/ECC): The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
- [NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/NousResearch/hermes-agent): The agent that grows with you
- [deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness): DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
- [multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills): A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.
- [anomalyco/opencode](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/anomalyco/opencode): The open source coding agent.
- [morluto/rea](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/morluto/rea): Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
- [n8n-io/n8n](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/n8n-io/n8n): Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
- [tensorflow/tensorflow](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/tensorflow/tensorflow): An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
- [ultraworkers/claw-code](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/ultraworkers/claw-code): An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.
- [firecrawl/firecrawl](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/firecrawl/firecrawl): Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥
- [microsoft/markitdown](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/microsoft/markitdown): Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
- [Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT): AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.
- [ollama/ollama](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/ollama/ollama): Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
- [anthropics/skills](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/anthropics/skills): Public repository for Agent Skills
- [huggingface/transformers](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/huggingface/transformers): 🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.
- [AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui): Stable Diffusion web UI
- [DietrichGebert/ponytail](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/DietrichGebert/ponytail): Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
- [msitarzewski/agency-agents](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/msitarzewski/agency-agents): A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.
- [langgenius/dify](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/langgenius/dify): Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.
- [langflow-ai/langflow](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/langflow-ai/langflow): Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
- [open-webui/open-webui](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/open-webui/open-webui): User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
- [anthropics/claude-code](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/anthropics/claude-code): Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
- [langchain-ai/langchain](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/langchain-ai/langchain): The agent engineering platform.
- [x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools): FULL Augment Code, Claude Code, Cluely, CodeBuddy, Comet, Cursor, Devin AI, Junie, Kiro, Leap.new, Lovable, Manus, NotionAI, Orchids.app, Perplexity, Poke, Qoder, Replit, Same.dev, Trae, Traycer AI, VSCode Agent, Warp.dev, Windsurf, Xcode, Z.ai Code, Dia & v0. (And other Open Sourced) System Prompts, Internal Tools & AI Models
- [farion1231/cc-switch](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/farion1231/cc-switch): A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io
- [Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps): 100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.
- [github/spec-kit](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/github/spec-kit): 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with SDD or any other process!
- [Comfy-Org/ComfyUI](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI): The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.
- [garrytan/gstack](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/garrytan/gstack): Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
- [nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill): An AI skill that provides design intelligence for building professional UI/UX across multiple platforms.
- [ggml-org/llama.cpp](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/ggml-org/llama.cpp): LLM inference in C/C++
- [harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo): 利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流，根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.
- [openai/codex](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/openai/codex): Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
- [Graphify-Labs/graphify](https://heatdrop.ai/repo/Graphify-Labs/graphify): Turn any cod
