Tools

Software I installed, ran, and formed an opinion about. Every verdict is dated, so you can see how stale it is.

agent systems7

  • Paperclipusingas of 2026-08-17details for Paperclip

    Agent org control plane. Verified working on the overnight bench — boots clean, embedded Postgres, telemetry off.

  • Hermesusingas of 2026-08-26details for Hermes

    Telegram-gateway agent runtime I run 24/7 (v0.20.5 + lifecycle manager). Inbound queue has a known interruption quirk.

  • Headlongwatchingas of 2026-08-26details for Headlong

    Persistent agent harness. Installed on a Factory droid backend; first real run still pending.

  • Buzzon-holdas of 2026-08-17details for Buzz

    Block's agent workspace. Cloned, never judged — the source build wants multi-GB toolchain and disk ran out mid-bench. Prebuilt release is the easy path.

  • Cabineton-holdas of 2026-08-17details for Cabinet

    Won my head-to-head demo comparison against two alternatives; full re-scaffold pending. Promising.

  • cloudflare-osskippedas of 2026-08-17details for cloudflare-os

    Lost the same head-to-head to Cabinet on my use case.

  • WUPHFskippedas of 2026-08-17details for WUPHF

    Weaker take on what Buzz does, with a restrictive license on top.

web tools3

  • agent-browserusingas of 2026-08-26details for agent-browser

    Browser automation CLI for agents — accessibility-tree snapshots at a fraction of screenshot token cost. Daily driver.

  • Firecrawlusingas of 2026-08-26details for Firecrawl

    Scrape/crawl/extract API for pages that fight plain fetch. Its X postprocessor is the only reliable way I read tweets programmatically.

  • pxpipeskippedas of 2026-08-17details for pxpipe

    Token-saving MITM proxy with documented silent string corruption. Unusable anywhere fidelity matters.

claude skills3

  • improve (shadcn skill)usingas of 2026-08-17details for improve (shadcn skill)

    Plan-cheap-execute optimization loop as a Claude skill. Cherry-picked from the bench.

  • davidondrej skill packusingas of 2026-08-17details for davidondrej skill pack

    Three skills kept after a security read: risky-changes (adapted), folder-specific-claude-md, effective-agent-skills.

  • lazyweb skillskippedas of 2026-08-17details for lazyweb skill

    Design-research skill pack with a curl|bash installer; paid tier can decrypt browser cookies. Only ever deliberately.

apps5

  • Synarawatchingas of 2026-08-19details for Synara

    Desktop app builds and boots clean end-to-end (Bun + Electron). Works; not yet part of the daily stack.

  • Dinkyskippedas of 2026-08-17details for Dinky

    Unsigned app from a personal tap — not worth the trust exception.

  • hubble.mdskippedas of 2026-08-17details for hubble.md

    Duplicates my existing markdown vault workflow.

  • Macroskippedas of 2026-08-17details for Macro

    The workspace product turned out to be a Notion replacement, not the PDF tool I wanted.

  • Papercutsskippedas of 2026-08-17details for Papercuts

    Fine tool, but requires a Rust toolchain I don't want to carry right now.

sandboxes1

  • Evewatchingas of 2026-08-17details for Eve

    Vercel's agent sandbox. Scaffolded and ready to test — needs Node 24.

unsorted1