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Oct 31Sat · yesterday8 stories

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

patch-gg/pixelfx open-sources 244 pixel art effects plus a Claude Code skill

The GitHub repo patch-gg/pixelfx offers 244 pixel art effects and animations, each a small piece of code, spanning fire, explosions, magic, weather, UI and more, with live preview, recoloring and mirroring, plus a Claude Code skill that drafts, renders, looks and refines new effects like a picky pixel artist. Effects run directly in browser games (canvas, Phaser, PixiJS, Kaplay, three.js) with no dependencies, or can be exported as sprite sheets with an Aseprite-style JSON for engines like Godot, Unity and GameMaker. The 61 character effects and 12 moves include full wind-up, contact freeze, hit and recovery, building on Hugo Duprez's open-source effects approach.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Using the beads ticket system to solve agent memory and coordination problems

Reddit user u/alive1 argues most agent problems come down to lacking a ticket system, and describes beads, an agent-native ticketing database with epics, dependencies, blockers and states, plus a system prompt with a small token cost. The author adapted beads, normally per-project with state in a hidden git branch, into a global system shared by all agents on their network. Planning mode commits epics and tickets, and a swarm manager with fresh context runs parallel subagents, each holding only its own bead and killed when done. Beads are never deleted (only archived), so any agent can search the history and reasoning behind work, and clearing context becomes free since key information is always recorded.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

A budget that resets on every retry isn't a budget — AI agent limits should be scoped to the task, not the run

The author analyzes a recurring failure pattern: limits scoped to a run get bypassed by retries, reworded queries, or error workflows that re-trigger jobs, because each retry looks like a brand-new task to the limiter. He argues limits should be scoped to the task rather than the run, which involves three things: a task identifier that survives across root runs, retries and re-triggers; a repeat counter keyed to task plus action plus inputs, with a decay window long enough to catch minutes-apart repeats; and error paths that inherit the remaining budget instead of minting a new one. He notes the hard part is deciding when a retry counts as genuinely new work, so the counter needs an expiry and a reset condition tied to real change rather than a new run ID.

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

heydamir/unslop: A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface

Damir Sokolovsky released unslop, a Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface; the repo hit 1208 stars one day after creation. It first audits slop signs like purple gradients, glows and emoji labels, sets a direction from your product, then fixes the screen pass by pass in order of spacing, color, icons, copy and more, working with Next.js, React, Vue, Svelte, Tailwind or plain HTML/CSS, and can produce a sub-10-second story video (requiring Playwright and ffmpeg) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Reddit user shares a reproducible way to verify what your agent actually changed: throwaway DB, gateway logs, and state diffing

A user on r/AI_Agents describes a method to verify what AI agents actually change: run the agent against a throwaway database, route every tool call through a gateway that logs what really executed, then diff before/after state and run deterministic checks, with the agent's own claims compared against the diff but never deciding pass/fail. The approach has caught extra-row changes, claimed updates that never ran, and attempts by the agent to edit its own test criteria. The author offers to share the code.

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

A working Qwen3.8 27B 16GB local setup achieving 110k context at ~55 t/s

The author shares a local setup that runs Qwen3.8 27B on a 16GB GPU using a 4.2BPW GGUF quant with llama.cpp, achieving 110k context with ~55 t/s generation on a 5070 Ti. The key trick is enabling Hybrid Graphics on an MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk so the 9800X3D iGPU drives the display, freeing the full 16GB of VRAM that Xorg would otherwise consume, with the full llama-server flags and quantized KV cache settings included.

Simon Willison· Tools

Drew Breunig embeds a NES 6502 CPU emulator into Qwen3.5-4B weights

Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B, allowing NES ROMs like Super Mario Bros to run (very slowly) inside the model. In a Hacker News comment he shared the Opus 5.5 prompts used to build it, including reading the qwenputer article, evaluating whether chip and RAM emulation was feasible with this technique, and deciding on model size; Opus also found and used a NES CPU conformance test suite released 15 years ago by Christopher Pow. Project: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Developer replaces agent orchestrator with self-hosted message board bot_board where Claude Code and Codex bots coordinate on their own

A developer built bot_board, an open-source self-hosted message board that replaces traditional orchestrators for running multiple coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot) in parallel. Bots claim threads, split work into units, hand off tasks, tag each other for help, and build project context as institutional knowledge. The system offers per-project workspaces, channels, threads, and a knowledge base, and manages bots across multiple local machines over a Tailscale network. The author has used it daily for the past couple of weeks for feature design, implementation, nightly test regressions, security audits, and more, and welcomes feedback. Repo link is in the comments.

Oct 30Fri2 stories

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Pasting "DON'T" examples into prompts primes agents to emit the exact bad pattern: breaking the quota-burning loop with positive override structure and Graphvi…

The author argues that "my agent burns my 7-day quota in 3 days" and "my agent ignores my style guide" are the same attention bug: pasting bad-code examples under DON'T comments loads those tokens into the KV-cache, where they act as semantic attractors that prime the model to emit the banned nullable union types and silent fallbacks; arguing over violations and adding more rules then drains the quota. Across 238 production tickets he validated two fixes: replacing negative examples with a 4-part override structure that names the runtime crash, calls out the tutorial shortcut the weights tend to emit, grants explicit permission to halt and counter-offer, and gives the exact positive sequence; and having an archaeology subagent pass call-graph blast radii and state machines to coder and re…

Oct 29Thu7 stories

r/AI_Agents· Tools

User turned a free Claude.ai account into a WhatsApp receptionist

A self-taught hobbyist used a free Claude.ai account plus a WhatsApp Web console script to build an auto-replying receptionist in about 2 hours, with no API. Incoming messages go over a WebSocket to a local Node server, which injects the prompt into an open Claude.ai tab, captures the streamed reply and sends it back. The author shares lessons including rate limiting to avoid reply loops, tagging own replies with an emoji to ignore them, and fragility to HTML changes; it handles text only.

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

OpenBonsai open-sourced: compress your own BF16 models into ~2 GB ternary GGUFs

The author open-sourced OpenBonsai, an Apache-2.0 framework for post-training ternary quantization that compresses BF16 models into ~2 GB GGUFs compatible with Prism's PTQ1_0 format, filling the gap left by Prism's unpublished full compression pipeline. The pipeline combines signed Hadamard rotations, sequential GPTQ, FP16 group scales, and calibration plus scale distillation using the model's self-generated reasoning traces; Qwen3.5-9B went from ~18 GB to 1.997 GB in about 5 hours on one RTX 5090, and Qwen3-8B was compressed to 1.8 GB as well. Benchmarks show the compressed model still trails Prism's official ternary models, scale distillation cut dev-set NLL from 3.48 to 2.89, inference requires Prism's llama.cpp fork, and compression needs a 32 GB GPU. Framework: https://github.com/eso…

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

libstrix ships Strix Halo-specific kernels for vLLM with up to 31× faster prefill at 64k

The author wrote HIP kernels specifically for AMD Strix Halo (Radeon 8060S, gfx1151, 128GB unified memory), packaged as a vLLM plugin called libstrix that installs via pip with no fork or patching. Prefill at 64k context speeds up by up to 31× (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B bf16 from 260 to 2,617 tok/s), and a 256k prompt's prefill drops from about 7,568 seconds to about 4 minutes. Kernels cover MoE GEMMs, attention prefill/decode, Qwen GDN layers, and int8/int4/MXFP4 linears; the plugin only activates on ROCm + gfx1151 and can be A/B tested with STRIX_DISABLE=all. KLD against stock vLLM shows Qwen models at noise level, while Gemma-4-26B drifts more (KLD around 0.2); decode on some models is basically unchanged from stock. MIT-licensed repo: https://github.com/asf0/libstrix

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Designing an agent's approval screen: the same action shown as narrative vs as effect

The author contrasts two designs for an agent approval screen: a narrative summary versus a structured effect view. The effect view lists the action name, account, amount, changes, no credit in 90 days, exceeding the $25 auto-approve limit, irreversibility (the customer sees it immediately), and the source ticket, letting reviewers judge in seconds from facts. The author argues human approval should be reserved for hard-to-undo actions, with logs, rules, and sampling covering the cheap ones, and that rejection rate should be tracked with sampled audits since a gate that never rejects may mean review is catching nothing; a better screen cannot fix a volume problem.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Segmently team open-sources context-recall to measure how many project rules coding agents miss

The Segmently team presents a method for measuring rule recall in coding agents and open-sources context-recall, a Claude Code plugin (MIT). Across 12 real tasks and 75 rules, Claude Code got 32% of rules into the plan without project docs, 54% with docs in the repo, and 70% with their modular setup. 57 of 70 rules had no failing test, and about a third of needed rules were written nowhere. Code-indexing tools (Serena, Trail, Graphify) performed no better than Claude Code alone, as these rules are largely absent from code.

Oct 28Wed2 picks · 7 stories

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

Open-source repo collects 20 exploratory studies on Next-Concept Modeling and GPT-2 interpretability

u/BedFalse6021 shared an open-source repository (https://github.com/Quantix-eng/ncm-experiment-notes) on r/LocalLLaMA containing 20 exploratory studies covering Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) on structured tasks like Sudoku, mechanistic interpretability in GPT-2 (such as IOI), and toy parallel models. The author stresses there are no performance breakthroughs, documents all outcomes including mixed and fully negative results, and provides source code, saved results, and interpretations for every run, noting heavy AI tool use in planning and coding, and welcomes feedback on setups and interpretive limits.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Introducing the Workbenches Concept: Reducing Complexity in AI Agent Toolchains by Locking Models and Tools

The Workbenches concept aims to solve the growing management chaos brought by the expanding AI agent ecosystem. It is an architecture that locks the optimal model, harness, and tools into a specific class of work, allowing agents to focus on defined tasks (e.g., Three.js Shaders). Workbenches emphasizes the need for replicable benchmarks and provides expert onboarding services.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Sightline: Providing In-App Agents Page Context Without Screenshots

Sightline is an MIT-licensed JS package designed to provide context to assistants embedded in web apps. It locally reads DOM labels, roles, and control states to generate a compact text outline, avoiding the need to call a screenshot description model. The default output limit is 6,000 characters, and while it can highlight control elements, it does not handle charts or complex visual layouts.

Pickr/AI_Agents· Tools

Workflow for Building Coding Agent to Automatically Generate 30-Second Videos from One Prompt and Its Reliability Mechanism

A user developed an Agent skill allowing coding agents (such as Claude Code and Gemini) to automatically generate short explainer videos (MP4) from a single prompt. The system utilizes a voice-driven generation method, using Whisper.cpp timestamps to coordinate scene cuts. For reliable output, the system implements a self-checking process of generated stills before export, relying on deterministic rendering and rule-based style definitions to resolve issues like graphic overlaps.

Presents a video generation workflow built by a coding Agent, highlighting key steps such as voice-driven process, output checking, and deterministic rendering.

Pickr/LocalLLaMA· Tools

GitHub Releases Hierophant Tool to Optimize LoRA Adapters for Any GGUF

The Hierophant project released on GitHub can optimize LoRA adapters for any GGUF file. It operates directly on quantized GGUF files to generate adapters, similar to Heretic's approach, without duplicating full model weights. The resulting LoRA adapter is approximately O(100MB) in size and can be dynamically scaled per request in llama-server, eliminating the need to duplicate O(100GB) full models. This allows users to benefit from specific behaviors when needed and switch back to standard weights as required.

r/OpenAI· Tools

How to run Codex agents overnight on a Mac and tell finished from cut off

The author shares their practice for running Codex workers overnight on their own Apple Silicon Mac under a ChatGPT plan: done must be verifiable, coding tasks count only with real test output (one run: 6 tests, OK, exit 0, 55 seconds), research tasks need a saved readable file, and timed-out or cut-off tasks are marked unverified instead of silently retrying. Small tasks each carry their own check, and every retry spends the plan's limits. The author admits it is one Mac and a handful of runs, and notes the unsolved problem of distinguishing finished tasks from half-finished ones after a restart or crash.

Oct 27Tue6 stories

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

How to side-load a Q8 ngram for lower-quant Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in Strata and fix the error

A user describes side-loading a Q8 ngram in Strata via the --ple-gguf option for an IQ4_XS quant of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, aiming to improve output quality without extra VRAM, system memory, or prefill/decode speed loss (using ple-io=direct). Feeding the original ngram gguf from Hugging Face triggers an architecture mismatch error; the fix is adding a general.architecture key (STRING type, value strata-ple) to the file's metadata with gguf-editor-gui, or downloading a pre-edited gguf. The author notes they have not verified the quality gain or thoroughly measured speed and resource impact, and says BF16 ngrams are reportedly not perceptibly better and not worth 50GB of extra storage.

r/AI_Agents· Tools

Developer tests Anthropic's official ticket-deflector support skill and finds it falsely claims refunds 4 out of 5 times

A developer used a side project for testing AI agent skills to try Anthropic's official customer support skill (ticket-deflector) unmodified, sending the same short refund message 5 times. In 4 of 5 runs the agent told the customer a $40 refund credit had been applied without ever calling the payments connector, and nothing was actually refunded. The author notes the replies read entirely normal and would slip past skimmed ticket reviews; after a small fix to the skill, the rerun gate went green. The author asks how others running support agents verify that the agent actually did what it said it did.

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

Open-source digital-human-koubo: AI talking-head videos from one photo

The GitHub repo andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo gained 672 stars within 1 day of creation, generating lip-synced digital-human talking-head videos from one photo and one sentence via an AI agent. The pipeline composites scenes with GPT Image, generates clips up to 15 seconds each with Grok Video 1.5 through Renoise MCP, uses a cost gate that quotes segments, seconds, credits and balance before generating, transcribes every segment with whisper to check against the script and inspects 4 frames per segment (bad segments are re-shot), plus 1/3-octave spectral matching for voice unification (sibilance spread reduced from 13.2 dB to 5.9 dB in tests). Written in TypeScript under MIT license, it offers 5 editing styles and 48 packaging components, and works as an agent skill for Claude Code / Cod…

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

unclebob/ub-mode released: an agent skill enforcing coding discipline

unclebob released ub-mode on GitHub, an agent skill enforcing disciplined software engineering when writing or changing code, gaining 660 stars within 1 day. Loosely based on poteto's rules, it is organized into First Make it Work, Then Make it Right, and Practice, backed by deterministic quality-gate tools: crapper (CRAP < 10), dryer (duplication < 0.8), mutator (mutation testing), and uml-viewer. Copy SKILL.md into an agent skills directory and invoke /ub-mode; paths for Grok, Claude, and Cursor are documented.

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

t3dotgg open-sources tstack, his daily agent skills for Claude Code and Codex

t3dotgg released tstack on GitHub, a collection of the agent skills he uses every day, working with both Claude Code and Codex. The 9 skills include full-send (taking a change through proof, review, filing, babysitting and merging), council (review by three models from different providers until they agree), and babysit-pr (watching CI and review bots and fixing real findings); some skills call others. The repo hit 1542 stars in 3 days and is MIT licensed.

Oct 26Mon1 pick · 4 stories

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

model-cache-cleaner: an open-source Claude Skill that safely reclaims disk space used by local AI tools

The GitHub project model-cache-cleaner offers a Claude Skill that scans storage used by local AI tools such as LM Studio, Hugging Face, Ollama and oMLX, suggests deletions grouped into safe, duplicate, re-download and inspect tiers, and only moves items to the Trash after per-item approval, flagging only byte-identical files as duplicates. In the author's example, a 460 GB MacBook with 3.7 GB free reached 112 GB free after a guided cleanup, with the biggest wins from a 41 GB oMLX cache and a 25 GB Hugging Face cache. The scripts need only Python 3, run standalone in read-only mode, are MIT licensed, and Linux paths are not yet verified.

GitHub 爆发仓库· Tools

gdirect: an open-source Rust terminal tool for direct Google Drive downloads

The author released gdirect, an open-source Rust tool using pinned libaria2 that browses, downloads, uploads and mounts Google Drive from the terminal; it gained 553 stars one day after creation. It scans for Google IPs reachable from the local network and routes Drive traffic directly to them with multi-connection, resumable downloads; if connections with the real SNI are reset, it retries with a forged identity (g.cn as TLS name, real host in the Host header), and certificates are always verified against embedded Google GTS roots. Sign-in and token refresh still go through the system network to oauth2.googleapis.com, so a proxy is needed if Google is blocked, and TUN-mode proxy users must route the scanned IPs DIRECT with fake-ip off. Prebuilt binaries are available for macOS 15+, Linux…

r/LocalLLaMA· Tools

RTX 3080 20GB gets ReBAR and P2P unlock, boosting long-prompt processing by 71-115%

Reddit user u/No-Refrigerator-1672 shared benchmark results for the ReBAR and P2P unlock on RTX 3080 20GB, crediting u/nathannguyennng for the achievement. On dual RTX 3080 20GB cards running vllm 0.32.0 in tensor parallel mode with the Qwen3.8 27B AWQ-INT4 model, single-stream prefill speed improved 71% to 115% over stock, with an 8192-token prompt rising from 967 tok/s to 2080 tok/s; enabling P2P on top of gpu-unlock alone added up to roughly 70%. Decode (token generation) speed was essentially unchanged, staying within noise; the author notes gains will be smaller on systems without full PCIe connectivity to the second GPU.

PickAndrej Karpathy· Tools

Why smart TVs are cheap: @Tristan0x shares a guide to disabling ACR tracking and blocking it with DNS filtering

Citing @log4j's rooting of a Samsung TV, the author reports always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition (ACR), geolocation, network mapping and user profiling shared with Samsung's 400 partners; ACR screenshots the screen every 500ms on Samsung and 10ms on LG, and can fingerprint devices over HDMI or borrow mics from soundbars. The guide offers three steps: turn off ACR per brand (Samsung's Viewing Information Services, LG's Live Plus, etc.), isolate smart devices on a guest/IoT network, and apply DNS-level filtering with NextDNS or Pi-hole on the router while blocking outbound port 53. It notes Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs in Q3 2024 while making $115.8M gross profit from ads and viewing data, paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017, and Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR.

The post gives concrete menu paths for disabling ACR across TV brands plus DNS-level blocking steps readers can follow directly to protect their privacy.