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Dev Tools

opencodex puts any model behind Codex and Claude Code

lidge-jun/opencodex

A local proxy that translates the Codex Responses API into whatever your provider speaks — streaming, tool calls, reasoning tokens and images, both ways.

★ 10.1K · TypeScript · August 16, 2026
AI & ML

QM is an agent with a per-employee sandbox, in Slack

yc-software/qm

A multiplayer agent harness where every person and every room gets its own memory, files, keychain, crons and durable sandbox — on a harness you choose.

★ 13.6K · TypeScript · August 16, 2026
Apps & Self-Hosted

driftwm drops your Wayland windows onto an infinite canvas

malbiruk/driftwm

A trackpad-first compositor on smithay: windows keep their native size on a 2D canvas, snap into clusters, and the screen is a camera that pans and zooms.

★ 1.6K · Rust · August 15, 2026
Apps & Self-Hosted

Vorssaint puts a dozen paid Mac utilities in one menu bar

vorssaint/vorssaint-utils

Per-app volume, system monitor, window switcher, clipboard history and more, in a Swift app where each feature installs and uninstalls separately.

★ 5.3K · Swift · August 12, 2026
Dev Tools

Ponytail makes your coding agent stop over-building

DietrichGebert/ponytail

An agent skill that enforces YAGNI and reaches for native platform features first. Its own benchmark walked back its earlier, more flattering numbers.

★ 103.2K · JavaScript · August 11, 2026
Infrastructure

OpenConnector keeps SaaS credentials out of the agent

oomol-lab/open-connector

An open-source auth gateway fronting 1,000+ providers for AI agents, with inspectable action contracts and a self-host path off the hosted runtime.

★ 4.7K · TypeScript · August 10, 2026
Dev Tools

Open Code Review: Alibaba's internal review bot, opened up

alibaba/open-code-review

A Go CLI that reviews git diffs with a hybrid of deterministic pipelines and an LLM agent, and claims a ninth of the tokens a general agent spends.

★ 20.5K · Go · August 9, 2026
Hardware & Robotics

OOMWOO is a robot vacuum you print, wire and own

makerspet/oomwoo

A LiDAR-mapping vacuum built from a Raspberry Pi, an ESP32 and 3D-printed parts, running ROS2 and Home Assistant with no cloud in the loop.

★ 8.5K · Python · August 8, 2026
Languages

Nub: Bun's ergonomics without leaving Node

nubjs/nub

A Rust toolkit that runs TypeScript, installs packages and manages Node versions — by extending stock Node rather than replacing the runtime.

★ 4K · Rust · August 7, 2026
Dev Tools

Epic open-sourced Lore, a version control system for artists

EpicGames/lore

A Rust VCS from Epic Games built for repositories where the code is the small part: large binary assets, huge teams, free branching, tamper-evident history.

★ 8.4K · Rust · August 6, 2026
Graphics & Games

img2threejs turns one photo into Three.js source, not a mesh

img2threejs/img2threejs

An agent pipeline that rebuilds the object in a reference image as procedural Three.js code, gated on a checklist of details it must account for.

★ 11.8K · Python · August 5, 2026
Data

GeoLibre runs 1,000+ GIS tools in the browser, offline

opengeos/GeoLibre

A cloud-native GIS built on Tauri, MapLibre and DuckDB-WASM that ships the WhiteboxTools toolbox to WebAssembly — desktop, mobile, browser and Jupyter.

★ 6.1K · TypeScript · August 4, 2026
AI & ML

DeepSeek Harness: an agent runner where everything is a plugin

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

DeepSeek published its own agent harness, dsh, and it collected six figures of stars in two days. It is also a developer preview that promises to break.

★ 111.9K · TypeScript · August 3, 2026
Security

OpenAI ships a security scanner you point at any model

openai/codex-security

Codex Security is a CLI and SDK that finds, validates and fixes vulnerabilities — and it will run the scan through OpenRouter, Bedrock or Fireworks instead.

★ 9.9K · TypeScript · August 2, 2026
Web

Bento is a slide deck that carries its own editor

nyblnet/bento

A PowerPoint alternative shipped as one 560 KB HTML file: the viewer, presenter and editor live inside the document, and it rewrites itself on save.

★ 4.1K · TypeScript · August 1, 2026