Top GitHub Repos This Week: NewsJack, OpenSEO, Paperclip and the Top 10
Two hosts walk the week's fastest-growing repos: a PR agent made viable by a cheap small model, an open-source Semrush that got Y Combinator dragged, an org chart for your agents, and ten more.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
Open-source repos are steadily replacing paid SaaS seats and single-vendor agent setups, and cheap purpose-built models plus shared instruction files like agents.md are what make those replacements practical to run every day.
Who This Is For
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READ IF YOU ARE…
You run coding agents like Claude Code, Codex or Hermes and switch between them, and you want one set of instructions and tools that travels with you.
You pay for Semrush, Fireflies, Granola or a code-review SaaS and want to know which open-source repo is now good enough to swap in.
You are a solo founder or small team who wants finance, legal, marketing and HR skills bolted onto your agent without hiring for them.
You are curious why a vibe-coded wrapper got into Y Combinator and whether a simple, profitable business is still a good business.
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You want a hands-on install tutorial for any one repo. This is a survey with commentary, not a walkthrough.
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TL;DR
The full version, fast.
The week's trending GitHub repos share one pattern: open-source tools that run on the model subscription you already pay for are replacing dedicated SaaS seats, from Semrush (OpenSEO) to code review (Alibaba's Open Code Review) to call recording. Three forces make this practical now. Cheap purpose-built models like Jev turn decision-heavy agents such as NewsJack into something that costs pennies per run. Claude Code now reads the shared agents.md file, so one rulebook works across Codex, OpenCode and Claude. And skill packs (ECC, Agent Skills, Anthropic's financial and knowledge-work plugins) hand you a senior practitioner's accumulated process for free. The practical move is to pick a skill pack sized to your experience, consolidate your tools behind one MCP endpoint, and use an agent-first interface like Orca or Paperclip once you are running more than one agent.
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Three payoffs teased (fame, traffic, agent org chart) plus the top ten, sponsored by Zapier.
00:15 – 01:33
02 · NewsJack: an LLM as your PR manager
The repo finds reporters and stories to wedge into. It took off this week because its creator showed it running on Jev, which decides in pennies versus Opus on the right side of the demo.
01:33 – 02:50
03 · Jev for fast, cheap decisions
The co-host replaced slow flash models with Jev for lead, customer and talent profile evaluation, and now runs ELO-style tournaments that were too expensive on big models.
02:50 – 04:04
04 · OpenSEO: open-source Semrush rival
Pay only for the DataForSEO data, or $10 a month hosted. The founder's YC announcement drew public and private mockery: a wrapper of a wrapper, mid-tier SaaS, not a billion-dollar business.
04:04 – 05:32
05 · Why a simple profitable wrapper is fine
The co-host is a paying customer. A business that makes millions without needing more capital is a win; the host went through YC in 2016 and most of his batch is flat or dead. Let them laugh, keep building.
05:32 – 07:26
06 · Paperclip: manage agents like employees
An org chart, budgets and a task manager for agents, boosted by a sponsored half-million-view video. It corrals Hermes and OpenClaw, not consumer agents like Grokbot or Meta's Muse.
07:26 – 09:52
07 · No. 1: Anthropic Financial Services
Ten finance agents doing grunt work. The host blew it off as enterprise KYC until a lawyer showed him the legal equivalent shaving hours off his week. Same pack raises the floor for novices and supercharges pros.
09:52 – 11:57
08 · No. 2: Alibaba Open Code Review
40k stars, now with a VS Code extension. Open-source review on your existing subscription replaces paid review seats; the editor extension matters because that is where people actually work.
11:57 – 14:10
09 · No. 3: Claude Code reads agents.md
One instruction file now works across Codex, OpenCode and Claude. Symlink hacks retire; rename CLAUDE.md to agents.md and every agent sees the same rules.
14:10 – 15:06
10 · Skills and MCPs still diverge
Skills do not fully cross agents yet. A Google Calendar automation broke on agent switch because the MCP connector was installed on one side only.
15:06 – 16:26
11 · Zapier MCP and the free Zapier SDK
One MCP endpoint carries all tools to any agent with a URL and a key, with permission control. The SDK gives app builders 8,000-plus connections free while in beta.
16:26 – 18:37
12 · No. 4: ECC engineering skill pack
A hackathon winner's decade of practice: plan, test, implement, review, verify, then remember and improve. The last two steps make the agent learn instead of hitting the same blockers.
18:37 – 20:10
13 · No. 5: WeKnora knowledge management
Obsidian plus RAG plus a graph database. Point it at your files and it links receipts to projects automatically, then exposes it all through a wiki, search and an MCP server.
20:10 – 22:32
14 · No. 6: Agent Skills, and the workshop-vs-toolbox comparison
An ex-Anthropic, ex-Google engineer's 25 skills versus ECC's 292. Toolbox for beginners, full workshop for power users. Comment poll: should ECC's creator do a walkthrough?
22:32 – 23:28
15 · Sponsor: Monid AI
Two thousand-plus tools (TikTok scraping, Apollo, ElevenLabs) behind one account and one usage-based bill.
23:28 – 25:00
16 · No. 7: Anthropic Knowledge Work Plugins
Finance, HR, legal, marketing, ops. A new founder gets a marketer and a lawyer on the team; an expert studies the marketing plugin to build a custom one.
25:00 – 27:50
17 · No. 8: Orca, and the post-VS-Code era
77k stars. Run five coding agents in one window with worktrees and mobile. VS Code is built around code, Orca around agents, which is what your screen shows now. Living in one agent means missing what another does better.
27:50 – 29:45
18 · No. 9: Tencent Cloud Octop
An AI crew for a team or family on one machine, but the front doors are Telegram and QQ, so it is aimed at Asia. Open room for a truly simple family agent.
29:45 – 32:20
19 · No. 10: Claude Code Templates marketplace
A browsable, sortable marketplace of skills, agents, commands and MCP connectors. GitHub is a supermarket that is bad at discovery; this could become the storefront.
32:20 – 33:30
20 · A passion-detector agent
An agent watches calls and Slack for cursing, then reports the three things the host got most fired up about as social and outreach fuel.
33:30 – 34:34
21 · Building a custom call recorder
Granola and Fireflies each get half of it right. The team is 85 to 90 percent through their own, pricier per seat but exactly what they want, to share with their fellows.
34:34 – 34:57
22 · Sign-off
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Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
A small purpose-built model that decides in pennies makes agent workflows viable that were too slow or expensive to build on frontier models.
Replacing a flash-tier model with a cheaper purpose-built one was night and day for lead and talent screening, and it unlocked tools the team had never bothered to build.
An ELO tournament for ranking candidates works with big models but is expensive; on a cheap model it is effectively free and much faster.
OpenSEO is a wrapper around a paid SEO data API, and being a wrapper of a wrapper is not a problem if customers pay for the convenience.
Raise $500 million and make $5 million a year and the business has failed; raise half a million and make $5 million and you are rolling in it.
Y Combinator funding a simple, clearly profitable tool is a stretch that many of its 2016-era startups would have benefited from.
Paperclip is a task manager and org chart for agents, and it only corrals the advanced agents like Hermes and OpenClaw, not consumer ones like Grokbot.
Anthropic's vertical skill packs look irrelevant to hobbyists until you meet a lawyer shaving hours a week off his practice with the legal version.
The same skill pack raises the floor for a novice and hands a professional a customizable superpower, and both uses are legitimate.
Open-source code reviewers let teams use their existing model subscription instead of paying a separate seat for the review-and-verify step.
A VS Code extension matters because most people run agents inside an editor with tabs, panes and buttons, not a bare terminal.
Claude Code reading agents.md means one instruction file serves every agent, and the symlink and cross-reference hacks can be retired.
Switching agents mid-project fails silently when an MCP connector is installed on one side and not the other.
One MCP endpoint that bundles all your tools makes moving between agents a matter of pasting a URL and an API key.
The remember-and-improve step is what separates a skill pack that learns from one that hits the same blockers every single run.
A 292-skill pack is a full workshop for power users; a 25-skill pack is a toolbox a beginner can understand end to end.
Agent-first interfaces like Orca are built around the agents and worktrees rather than the code, which is what most screens actually show now.
Living entirely inside one coding agent means missing what a second agent does better, like finding clips versus writing text.
GitHub is a supermarket that is bad at browsing, which leaves room for a curated marketplace of skills, plugins and MCP connectors.
Building your own call recorder will not save money per seat, but it will be exactly what your team needs.
Takeaway
Open repos are eating SaaS seats one workflow at a time.
WHAT TO LEARN
Cheap purpose-built models, a shared agents.md rulebook, and free expert skill packs are turning paid tools into repos you run on the subscription you already have.
02NewsJack: an LLM as your PR manager
A cheap purpose-built model changes what is worth building: screening, ranking and PR-fit decisions that cost too much on Opus become pennies.
03Jev for fast, cheap decisions
Replace flash-tier models with a small specialist for evaluation tasks and re-examine every idea you shelved as too expensive to run.
04OpenSEO: open-source Semrush rival
Being a wrapper is not a weakness if the wrapper makes paid data cheaper and easier for people who would not integrate it themselves.
05Why a simple profitable wrapper is fine
Judge a company by revenue against capital raised, not by whether it can reach a billion; $5M a year on $500K raised is a win.
06Paperclip: manage agents like employees
An agent org chart with budgets and a task queue only matters once you run several advanced agents; it does not yet corral consumer agents.
07No. 1: Anthropic Financial Services
Vertical skill packs look like enterprise filler until you watch a practitioner in that field shave hours off their week with them.
One pack serves two users: novices take it off the shelf for professional-grade output, experts customize it into a personal superpower.
08No. 2: Alibaba Open Code Review
Open-source code review runs on your existing model subscription, so the review-and-verify seat you pay for is now optional.
Ship an editor extension for any developer tool, because most people work inside VS Code with buttons and panes, not a bare terminal.
09No. 3: Claude Code reads agents.md
Rename your CLAUDE.md to agents.md so every agent you use reads the same instructions and the symlink hacks can go.
10Skills and MCPs still diverge
When an agent suddenly cannot do a task after you switch tools, check whether the MCP connector exists on that agent before debugging anything else.
11Zapier MCP and the free Zapier SDK
Route every tool through one MCP endpoint so moving between agents is a URL and a key, and scope permissions before trusting a new agent with mail.
12No. 4: ECC engineering skill pack
Plan, test, implement, review and verify are table stakes; the remember-and-improve steps are what make an agent get better each loop.
Have the agent write what it learned back into agents.md, memories or scripts, or you relive the same blockers every session.
13No. 5: WeKnora knowledge management
Point a graph-plus-RAG tool at your files and let it link receipts to projects automatically instead of maintaining folders by hand.
14No. 6: Agent Skills, and the workshop-vs-toolbox comparison
Pick a skill pack by your experience: a 25-skill toolbox if you are new, a 292-skill workshop if you will pick and choose.
Compare two repos by install friction and skill count before stars, since the popular one is not always the easier one to start with.
16No. 7: Anthropic Knowledge Work Plugins
Bolt finance, legal, marketing and HR plugins onto your agent and treat the output as a first draft from a team you could not afford.
If you are already an expert in one of those fields, read that plugin's structure and build a custom version for your own organization.
17No. 8: Orca, and the post-VS-Code era
Once several agents run in parallel, an agent-first interface with worktrees beats an editor that still centers the code.
Use more than one agent and let each do what it is best at, such as one finding clips and another writing text and charts.
18No. 9: Tencent Cloud Octop
Check which chat surfaces a team-agent tool supports before adopting it; Telegram and QQ front doors signal a different target market.
19No. 10: Claude Code Templates marketplace
Browse a curated marketplace before searching GitHub for skills and connectors, since download counts and stars are easier to compare there.
20A passion-detector agent
Mine your own calls and chat for moments of strong emotion, because those are the stories worth posting and pitching to guests.
21Building a custom call recorder
Build the tool you actually want when the off-the-shelf options each get half of it right, and accept it may cost more per seat.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
agents.md
A plain-text instruction file kept in a project or globally that tells an AI coding agent how to behave: deploy steps, design rules, checks to run. Several agents read it; Claude Code historically used its own CLAUDE.md instead.
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
An open standard that lets an AI agent call external tools and services through a single connector, so the same tool set can be plugged into different agents.
Skill pack
A bundle of reusable instructions, scripts and workflows that an AI agent can load to perform a specialized job, such as code review or financial analysis, without the user writing the process themselves.
Jev
A small, inexpensive purpose-built language model referenced in the video as making agent decisions far faster and cheaper than frontier models like Opus.
ELO system
A rating method borrowed from chess and tennis where pairwise matchups adjust each competitor's score, producing a ranked list after enough rounds.
Wrapper
Software that mainly repackages another service's API behind a nicer interface, adding convenience rather than new underlying capability.
KYC screening
Know Your Customer checks that financial firms run to verify client identity and risk before doing business.
Worktree
A separate checked-out copy of a git repository that lets multiple agents or people edit the same project in parallel without overwriting each other.
RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation: a system that searches your own documents first and feeds the relevant passages to the model so its answers are grounded in your files.
“If you've raised $500 million and you're making $5 million a year, your business has failed. If you've raised half a million and you're making $5 million a year, you're rolling in it.”
complete argument in two sentences, contrarian to startup culture→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
05:27
“It's also an inspiration for anyone who's listening who was vibe coding a wrapper. Let him laugh, but keep building.”
punchy encouragement with a villain baked in→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
18:15
“Maybe you've got that 10 years of experience, but you're stuck in that moment in time. You're never going to get more. Well, this is going to let your agent learn.”
“If you're using VS Code today, there's a really good chance that there's no code on your screen. It's an agent and an agent and the folder and a plug-in over here.”
observation that reframes a tool everyone uses→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
31:47
“For a lot of people, GitHub is kind of like a supermarket where they go in and they find the things they need, but it's not very user-friendly.”
one-line analogy, sets up a market gap→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
27:23
“If you're living in one, you're really missing out.”
short verdict on single-agent workflows→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
The Script
Word for word.
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you're gonna see how Jev will make you famous you're gonna see a tool that will get traffic to your website and if you have a lot of agents you're gonna see a tool that will bring them all together into an organized company all that and the top 10 repos of this week coming up presented by Zapier the AI automation company Adam before I show you the top 10 for the week I got to show you three that people are talking about and tell you why they're talking about them because this is super interesting all right number one news jack this is a github repo that will basically turn your llm into your pr manager it will find reporters that are talking about topics you should be you should be talking about it'll find stories that you need to kind of wedge yourself into and it'll help you go out and get into those reporters faces or at least in front of them and start to get you some press the reason that people are talking about it though and this is this has been out for a bit is because of jev with jev now you can make decisions so much faster
and cheaper that when the creator, Elvis, had posted this on Twitter, it just took right off. Look at this. This is Jev using the repo to make a decision about whether a new story is appropriate for one client or another to be a part of.
Check out how fast it works on the left versus on the right, which is Opus 5.
And so you can see Jev is making decisions quickly. Accurate at these things. And more importantly, it's just pennies.
It's super inexpensive. And because of that, this whole repo is getting so much more attention this week. What do you think of Jeff, by the way?
Oh, my God. I mean, it's amazing. We've been talking for a while about how these smaller, more purpose -built models are going to come around and not replace.
Opus and Fable and whatever, but they are going to create new opportunities. And this is a great one. And we use Jev for profile evaluations when we're looking for leads or customers or talent.
And we've just dropped it in and replaced all these flash models we used to use that were still kind of slow and not very good quality. And Jev is now like, yeah, I'll do that for basically free. And oh my God, it's night and day.
And suddenly we're building new tools that we wouldn't have built before because it would have been too complicated or annoying to build it out. One that I'll point out is we love the ELO system. If you play tennis or chess or whatever, it's basically this tournament model where you can pit two people against each other.
And based on their skill level and who wins or loses, both people's skill numbers adjust up and down. And if you run tournaments long enough, you figure... out the exact stack of everyone well that elo system works with these big models but it's pretty expensive to run now that we're using jeff it's again it's basically free and it's so much faster all right next thing that's getting a lot of attention this week is open seo it's an open source semrush rival that you basically pay peanuts for because you're just paying for the data source and i'll show you why people are just pissed at this and why they're talking about it it makes total sense He's taking data and he's making it accessible to you through this repo.
You don't have to pay him jack. You just get to use it if you want him to host it. It's just $10 a month.
He announced so proudly that he is now NY Combinator, 100 % open source company. And then people freaking started ripping into him, not just publicly, but I'm only going to show the tweets. Even in private, people are saying to me, Dude just vibe -coded something that takes data from data for SEO and just makes it easier to use, and now Y Combinator is backing him.
Here's this one from Nevo David, another person who I'd interviewed. I wonder what happened to Y Combinator. Don't get me wrong.
This looks like an amazing business. Definitely can make a few million dollars per year, but I find it weird today that YC is funding mid -tier SaaS. These companies can't be $1 billion businesses.
And others are just saying, look at this. This is a wrapper for a wrapper. What do you think of this?
Well, first of all, I'm a paying customer of it. We talked about this one a couple weeks ago, and I was like, oh, this seems like it would be really useful to us. I'm a little frustrated with SEMrush and others, so I'm a paying customer.
I think it's a great tool. I agree it's a wrapper of a wrapper, and I don't have any problem that it's a wrapper of a wrapper. That first point of why is Y Combinator funding this, I'm sure it'll be a great business.
It'll make millions of dollars a year, but why would they do that? They do it because it's going to make millions of dollars a year, and a business like this is so simple and clear. that it often doesn't need to raise other money.
And that's something people miss. If you've raised $500 million and you're making $5 million a year, your business has failed. If you've raised half a million or a million dollars and you're making $5 million a year, you're rolling in it.
You've built a great business that's valuable that you could sell, and you're paying yourself a couple million bucks a year. I don't know what the problem with that is. I'm happy that Y Combinator is stretching.
I went through YC in winter of 2016. And man, most of the businesses that went through with us, they're either shut down or they're struggling. They're kind of flat and they have no exit in sight.
I'm so happy that YC would stretch and try some of these other businesses that could still grow and be big. But at the very least, like, yeah, the dude's probably going to make a bunch of money. I'm excited about it.
It's also an inspiration for anyone who's listening who was Vibe coding a rapper. Let him laugh, but keep building.
All right, and finally, paperclip. This one is getting a ton of attention. I will say I believe it's because of this video that got about half a million views on YouTube where Network Chuck talked about how it connects multiple agents into this one.
This one structure that allows you to manage your agents like they're employees. And that's what it's always done. And I think the more agents come out that are good agents, the more we're going to need a tool like this that will help us manage them.
This is like the task manager for the agents. There's an org chart for the agents. I've installed this on a previous episode.
Here it is. I think this is the kind of thing that's useful. I don't know if this is the right project for it, but this is the one that people are spending a lot of time on.
This is the one that the developers spent actually a lot of time building up. And I should say also that this video I think was a paid promotion, which I'm not upset about because it means that Dota behind it is actually spending money to grow it. Is it?
Yeah, they're sponsored by Paperclip. Andrew, would I use this? in place of something like grokbot or hermes or or does this add to grokbot and hermes it corrals them into a place that your team can work with them okay so if i've got multiple agents from different providers i like them all for different reasons this gives me this one surface to manage Who's doing what and how do I assign tasks to them all?
Is that right? Yes. With one thing I want to be clear, I don't think it does work with Grokbot.
I don't think it does work with Meta's Muse. And I think that's where the opportunity is to bring them in. I've seen some of my friends in private talk about how they're creating ways to do something like this for those more consumer -grade products.
But Paperclip is doing it for Hermes, for OpenClaw, for the more advanced products. All right. Those are the top three people we're talking about.
Let's get into the number one trending repo of the week. And that is from Anthropic Financial Services. It's 10 finance agents that do the grunt work.
And it's kind of like having your own financial company sitting there and analyzing stocks for you.
Yeah. What do you think, Andrew? Is a repository like this going to be more useful for a beginner that's trying to...
do some of these financial tasks? Or is this more useful for a financial professional that wants superpowers? You know, when I see this know your customer screening, you and I and most people who are listening are not going to need this.
And this is honestly what made me blow it off last time this came up. I said, what is this? These financial companies have enough money for know your customer.
And then earlier this week, I talked with someone who's running a legal firm who Anthropic also created legal skills like this. he's using it to run his company he is shaving hours off of his week he was just showing me how he did it he's a total geek giant like watch that connects to the internet and all that stuff and he's doing all this and in the middle of the conversation he gets up he comes back and he goes i'm sorry andrew every time there's a wine order i have to go and sign for it because you know it's it's alcohol i said why all this wine order he goes i'm studying to be a sommelier i have all this extra time and he is using the anthropic skills for lawyers that i blew off a while back so i guess these are valuable and i shouldn't blow them off Heh.
Yeah, I think that makes sense. We've talked about this before. You could get some of these skills and plugins and customize them as well.
Now, in the hands of a novice, you're probably not going to customize it. You're just going to take it off the shelf and use it. But something like this, you take that KYC screener, you give it to a professional that knows how to do KYC and has very specific demands.
They're probably going to customize that and make it even more amazing for them. So that is kind of that superpower version versus raising the... raising the floor i think both are good i don't think there's anything wrong with with either one of those and we did last time that this came up show a video of somebody who was using it to analyze a stock and he was a total novice and he got really quality analysis for it all right this has been on there for a long time i don't i don't know why it suddenly picked up this week but it really took off it's from anthropic so you know you can trust it um and we got a link to this so you can Go and check it out for yourself.
All right, another one that's a returning one because it keeps growing. 40 ,000 stars this week. Alibaba's code reviewer now leaves the terminal.
It helps you. This is basically meant for them internally, but now it's for vibe coders to ensure that their code is solid and that there aren't bugs and problems. And we've seen people actually sneak bugs into their software to see if it catches it and has caught it.
Yeah, I think the biggest news with packages like this are like, yeah, we at GatewayX and our portfolio companies, we use tools like this. And we have been paying for tools like this. But more and more of these open source versions are coming out that just let us use our existing cloud subscriptions or tokens or whatever.
And yeah, I don't know that it's good news for the people running businesses in this space, but I'm glad to see a lot of open source competition for the review, pull request, deploy and verify step of code production. Okay, the thing that happened this week, and I think this is what helped it take off, is that now there's like a VS Code extension.
Why would I need a VS Code extension, Adam? Can't I just do what we showed last week, which is just copy the URL of the repo, give it to my agent and say, do it?
Yeah, you know you could do everything code in a terminal if you wanted. People choose VS Code because it gives you a lot of buttons to work with.
There's tabs, there's panes, there's the buttons down the side, buttons at the bottom, automations, there's settings. It's just a customizable and comfortable interface to work in. And so an extension that is in VS Code is going to bring some automation and some buttons that make it even easier to interact with a package like this.
Take Cloud Code, for example. You could open Cloud Code in your terminal. But a lot of people that are listening are probably using Cloud Code as a plug -in inside VS Code.
And Cursor is the same kind of setup. It brings those agents and all the other surfaces like file editing and file managing all in one spot. I see.
And so now I get the pain and more of the features that I like about Cloud Code. Okay. It's from Alibaba.
Which we get so much. Every time I feature a Chinese repo, I get so much flack. All right, next.
Anthropix Clawed Code. Still not open source, but on GitHub so that they could get feature requests, so that they could get bugs. And the reason that it took off is now it reads agents .md.
Why does this matter? It feels like a little win, Andrew. It feels like a dumb, insignificant change, but...
A lot of us really appreciate it. When you're using something like Codex or OpenCode or any of these other agents, typically they're looking at an agents .md file that's in your... project folder, or you probably have one that's global on your whole computer.
And that's where the instructions for the agent are. These are the instructions like, I always want you to check the files before you load this, or here's how we deploy code, or here's my design guidelines. It's the instructions.
It's the background instructions for the agent. And Claude has their own. Claude .md.
And it's always been really annoying that if you're switching back and forth between multiple agents, they need different sets of instructions. And you'll remember, you'll say, oh, I just updated agents .md with a new process. And you'll forget to update Claude .md.
I see. And now when you're talking to Opus. It's not going to take those same instructions because it just doesn't look at agents .md.
And there have been hacks for this before. People have tried symlinks. People have tried referencing the files.
It's just been a mess. And now the fact that they're going to use the same file that everyone else is using means that the mess just goes away. And everyone can rename their clod .md files to agents .md.
And all the agents that you're using are going to see those same instructions now. So I don't need clod .md anymore? Yeah.
But you need agents .md. Okay. All right, fair.
But now when you open up Codex and talk to that same project, you're going to get all those same instructions baked into Codex. It's just a little easier for people that are switching between agents. And a lot of us are switching between multiple accounts on multiple agents to try and use our token budgets as effectively as we can.
And this would be especially frustrating for those people. And they should all be high -fiving right now. What about skills?
Claude uses skills. Doesn't Codex use something else? I forget.
I still call them skills in Codex. Yeah, some of those things cross over and some of them don't. So that is still frustrating.
Hopefully we'll find some. some path there that can make them consistent. Just yesterday, I was really frustrated.
I was in a project and I was trying to add, you know, do some automation on a Google Calendar and it was working and I switched agents and I didn't think about it. And suddenly the agent was like, no, none of this works. I can't do any of this.
It's like, why? And I was back and forth, back and forth. And it was Codex.
And I was talking to Astra and it couldn't figure out that it just didn't have the MCP connector installed in Codex. It was installed on the cloud side, but not on the Codex side. And it took me a minute to figure that out.
Once I told it, it was like, oh, yeah, let's just install it. And then this whole problem goes away. Come on, man.
I thought you were supposed to be a good model. That kind of brings me over to Zapier MCP. If you use Zapier MCP, you could connect all your MCPs, all your tools into one toolbox, and then take that toolbox to all the different agents that you're working with.
I switched from Hermes to Grokbot one week, and all I had to do was move the MCP information from one to the other. It was like a URL and an API key, I think it was. It was just two things.
I copied and pasted them in. I had access to it all. And more importantly, especially in the beginning when I'm using a new agent, I don't want it to have the...
to send mail on my behalf, to do all kinds of funky stuff, and so Zapier lets me control that. You know what? Let me also talk about Zapier SDK for a minute because this is free.
I wasn't even going to because they don't want me to talk about it anymore, but I've got to talk about it. Dude, this is free. They will let you, in the code you build, connect all the different apps that your users want.
I said... Are you charging for it? They said, no.
You're bringing in years of experience, years of connections. You're not charging. Why not?
They said, Andrew, it's in beta. We're playing with this. We also like to learn and see how people use it.
I said, okay, and if one day you decide to charge me a million dollars a day for using it, how easy is it to switch? The developer behind it said, Andrew, it's so easy. At that point, then what you do is you tell your agent you know what apps people are using.
Write me a connection just for that. This is incredible that they're still offering it. I don't expect them to make this available to new people forever.
It's basically the heart and soul of their business. If you're building, use Zapier SDK. That's zapier .com slash SDK.
I'm really beating myself up for saying it because literally they told me yesterday, stop, it's not even worth it. But it's so useful for our people. All right, I got to move on.
Next, ECC. We've talked about this before because it continues to grow. This is a skill pack that basically takes this guy's, what is it, 10 years?
Here, actually, I like this.
Here it is, winner of Anthropics Hackathon. The most useful parts of these skill packs are you're taking someone's deep experience. They've got years and years of experience building.
And they say, well, here's all the pieces. And this one is like someone that has more than a decade of experience. They built out all of this over more than a year in Cloud and said, well, now I'm going to share.
Here's all the tools I use. Here's all the tools that I use to make the changes, to deploy code, to test the code, to build plans, to design. And you can kind of just get that for free.
You get all that experience baked into your Cloud for free. Yeah, I really admire that he's been doing it, that he's been keeping it up, that he's staying on top of people who are using it. And one of the things that you like about this is the remember and improve part of the build process that he goes through.
Why is that so important? The first piece of this, plan, test, implement, review, verify, that's very standard. You're going to see that in a lot of similar skill packs.
Remember and improve. are very interesting additions here because they're going to help train whatever agent you're using by making edits to the agents .md file or by recording other memories or saving scripts so that the next time you go through this loop from plan to verify It should go easier.
The agent should be better at it. It should make better recommendations, and it should be easier for you to interact with it because it's actually learning. A lot of these skip this learning step, and it means every single time you're going to hit the same blockers, you're going to hit the same problems.
Maybe you've got that 10 years of experience, but you're stuck in that moment in time. You're never going to get more. Well, this is going to let your agent learn.
All right. And I've been passing through a lot of the videos that I find in here. If you want it, we'll have a link to this below.
Next is Nora. This is a way of organizing your files, and you have a good analogy for this, and you also like that we scroll down to show the actual images. How would you describe this?
Yeah, Nora, you know, maybe it's like Obsidian plus RAG plus a graph database plus some extra integrations. And the idea is that instead of having to put everything in yourself and manage the structure and organization of it yourself, which is something I have never been. never had enough patience to do, you could just point this at your computer and all your files, and it will build those relationships automatically.
It's going to look at the files, look at the content, and say, oh, these two relate. Oh, here's a receipt that's in your downloads folder that relates to this project over here. Well, now in the graph database, those are going to be connected.
So when you open up the wiki or when you search, you're going to see all of the relevant context for whatever it is, the project, for your finances, for really anything, anything that you have in files on your computer. You know, speaking of Jev, I've got a video coming out I think on Saturday where someone showed how he has his personal memory system in folders.
And now because of Jev, it will make better decisions and find things in that system faster because he had structured it well and now he's got a system in place that will find it. And it's incredible. I can't wait to show that video.
All right. So there it is. This will organize your files and make them easier to...
easier to access next another set of agent skills a senior engineer this guy i think used to work for anthropic yeah there it is anthropic engineer ex -googler spent 40 years at google 14 years at google actually and he put down everything that he knew into a uh into a collection of folders you know what we actually asked the ai let me see if i could if i got it we asked claude to compare it there it is to ecc let's look at it for the very first time versus ECC.
Come on, there it is. So let's see. ECC obviously has a lot more stars.
Both have license that are reasonable. Agent skills has only 25 skills versus 292 skills, but that's okay. Both work with all models.
This really didn't give us anything that's super helpful, did it? I think the biggest changes I'm seeing here is that The one on the left, the agent skills, is probably a little easier to install.
The one on the right has hundreds of skills versus 25 on the left. And so with ECC, you're going to have to do a little bit more work to pick and choose exactly the components you got. Maybe the analogy here is that ECC is like a full workshop.
with all the tools quality tools everything you could imagine and you step in there if you're if you're an advanced user you'd say awesome this is the setup i want if you're if you're a new user it's a little overwhelming and the agent skills on the left with only 25 skills it's like a toolbox right it's like look andrew there's one of every basic tool you have everything you need there's nothing in here that you're not going to understand and it's easy to get going with it So maybe agent skills is easier if you're just getting into this, and ECC is more for the power user who's going to be a little bit more discriminated on which tool they'll pick and why.
You know I read the comments obsessively, so I'm going to ask you all in the comments, do you want me to have Mustafa, Afan Mustafa, who created ECC, which has over a quarter million stars, do you want me to do a full walkthrough of his skills here? He and I have been talking and I've been trying to think of what to do. Do you want me to have Mon to do that, and what would you want to know from him?
Let's hear about it in the comments. Moded API, second sponsor. I'm going to do this one quickly because, honestly, they're not paying for this.
I just love it, and I don't think I communicated how great it was last time. We have all these different tools that we want to give our agents, everything from TikTok scraping to Apollo for finding email addresses to what else is in here? Voices from 11 Labs.
Do we go and create a bunch of different accounts and then send our agent to go and take care of all those accounts and then we have minimum payments with each one of these accounts and then we have different API keys for each of them? Or do we just come to Monad? And if we do with Monad, we have over 2 ,000 of these tools all in one place, one bill, and you only pay for what you use.
That's the beauty of this. It's an easy sell. If you want it, I've got a link for you to use it down below.
All right. Next, another set of plugins from Anthropic. You and I talked about these skills before.
This is for knowledge workers. It's a collection of skills like how to do finance, human resources, legal, marketing, operations. What were we saying about this before?
Yeah, you know, I think this is a good example. There's so many different skills in this one, so many different plugins that this is probably a great spot. for for the everyman to level up let's say you're starting a new business You say, well, I'm selling this and I'm really good at these things, but I'm not as good at finance.
I'm not at, you know, I need help on the legal side. I don't really know how to run marketing or sales. You would go to a package like this and really bake in like, awesome.
Now I have a marketer on my team and that marketer is going to run through this marketing plugin. And I have a legal person. And when, you know, my investor sends me a doc, I actually have somebody I could talk to and I don't have to pay them to talk to them.
So that's how I think most people will use this. And if you're a marketing expert, I would trust that Anthropic has really done a good job at curating these and designing these. I'd say, well, I want to go and look at the marketing plugin and learn what did they build and why and what was the structure and what would I build that's custom for me and my organization that's really going to get the power out of these agents.
You know what? I'm going to give this to our hyper agent and I'm going to say, based on how our team has been using agents and what you've seen us do on Slack, Which of these skills can we use to level up and then see what it comes back with?
All right, it's from Anthropic, great source. Number eight, most popular repo of the week, the one that's trending, is Orca. Run five coding agents at once.
Keep the best. It's got 77 ,000 stars. I think their one screenshot, and you're really big on including screenshots in the readme files.
I think this says so much. Here it is. What you're looking at is, and they actually have, I think, a few different ones here, is...
You basically can have all these different agents in a single window that you can chat with. So here you can see Cloud Code. You can also then have Codex like you have right there.
And you can then chat with all of them in a single interface that also has a mobile connection.
What else do we need to know? This is awesome. I'll tell you why.
We've talked a lot about VS Code. A lot of people are using VS Code or derivatives of it. And VS Code is good because it brings a nice interface to the code and the terminal and everything else.
But it's designed around the code. And if you're using VS Code today, there's a really good chance that there's no code on your screen. It's an agent and an agent and the folder and a plug -in over here.
And VS Code really is still designed around the code. So Orca seems to be a similar type of interface. but designed around the agents.
You could see the code if you want, but really the thing that it's trying to show you is all of the different agents that are working, the files that are there, the different work trees, which we've talked about before. It's a great way to let agents work on one project in parallel without butting heads with each other. And this tool brings all of that into a nice interface.
So I think maybe I would call this the new era of VS Code and the new era of IDEs, tools like this will replace IntelliJ and these other tools that we've been using for two decades. I've been doing a lot of interviews, Adam, and I'm surprised by how many people live in just Cloud Code, in the Cloud Code app that Cloud created, including I was having a private conversation with someone from NVIDIA.
And I said, show me how you build this. Show me how I use this thing that you made. And he just does it in cloud code.
And the amazing thing for me is that they're missing out on like... astra when it's amazing and the ability to have them both work together it's phenomenal like i will even on these pages i will sometimes have astra come in and find the videos because i get really annoyed at the clips that i end up finding from uh from fable but then i have fable create the the text and find the charts and all that and having them work together is phenomenal if you're living in one you're really missing out and and that's not even to say go beyond that to some of the cheaper models and just have it go crazy without thinking about payment.
It's just amazing altogether. All right, number nine for the week. This is from Tencent, so those of you who are upset with me for featuring so many Chinese, this is the time to go into the comments and let me know.
This one has only 4 ,900 stars, so it's fairly small compared to the others. It's an AI crew for your whole team on one machine. Here it is.
It's basically their... This is their open source version of Grokbot, I would guess, is the way to say it. For a team of people to use it.
Now, is this meant for families? Let me just see. Family...
Yeah, look at this. So for teams, for families. And when we looked at it and we said, how do you connect into this?
It's like still using Telegram. Families are not going to get into Telegram. It's missing a lot of human understanding.
Yeah, it's a collection of apps that are more popular in Asia than they are in America. So this tool has an audience, and it's most likely not people in the United States. It's QQ.
I don't know. There's a list somewhere on here. Telegram is on there.
But I don't think like WhatsApp. Yeah, there you go. Fair point.
So those are – it's just not – it's nothing saying that they won't also build those integrations that would be more popular in North America. But right now, this looks like it's targeted more for Asia. All right.
There's me bringing my U .S. worldview. You're 100 % right.
The fact that I don't use it here and I just need iMessage doesn't mean other places they – That they're looking like that, too I will say this there is really good room for somebody to create a Hermes agent for families and it might end up being Muse from for meta but boy I would love to get my my wife onto it and it has to be super simple for her to use it I'd love to even get my kids into it.
We're not there yet. Okay, Claude code templates This is a collection of Claude code add -ons. I actually don't even think it's necessarily just for Claude code.
It's a i think that you and i as we went through it we said this is the best way to show off what this is even though you can just connect it in to your agent how would you describe this yeah you know we've looked at a lot of skills a lot of plugins a lot of copy and pasteable commands and when you're looking at them on github you really had to have had a link to look at it there.
GitHub is not a good place to browse and discover these things. And so when I look at tools like this, I really appreciate that they can create a marketplace to bring skills, agents, commands, plugins, MCP connectors together all in one spot. And look, you can see which ones are downloaded most often.
You can see which ones have the most stars. You can compare. You can search.
You can see the code if you want. But it's just a really nice interface to explore tools that might be relevant to you. So this would be worthy of a bookmark.
And when I'm looking for something to help with design or I'm looking for something to help with how to review pull requests or whatever, this would be your one -stop shop to say, well, is it an MCP tool that I need? Is it a plugin that I need? How many stars do they have?
Which one should I download and why? And this tool just brings it all into one spot. Andrew, I'd point out there's not too many here yet.
There's only 800, 900 skills. There's 34 plugins. But I kind of like that they're curated a little bit because it makes it easier to wade through the ones that are maybe not quite so reputable.
And I would trust tools from a platform like this a little bit more.
And there's ECC right at the top, right? Yeah, there it is. You know, for a lot of people, GitHub is kind of like a supermarket where they go in and they find the things they need, but it's not very user -friendly.
I wonder if there's room for this to end up creating the user -friendly version of that, the marketplace. And maybe start off by scraping everything off of GitHub and linking into GitHub, but eventually becoming a place where people will host their own tools for normies to come in and start adding what they need. But it's pretty popular.
31 ,000 stars already. All right. There it is for the week.
Obviously, like and follow. Let me just say one fun thing that I've been doing this week, Adam. And if there's anything that you've been doing or building that's fun this week, I'd love to hear from you.
My most fun thing that I did this week is... I work with this agent in Grokbot that will see when I get passionate on calls like this, through Granola, or in our Slack. If I curse, if there's an F -bomb in there, it means I'm super passionate.
It catches those, and it comes back to me the next day and it says, here are the three things that you are most passionate about. You might want to share them on social media, or maybe you might want to email people who you want to have on as guests. send that over to them and i've just been seeing that there's so many things that i'm doing that i'm excited about that i've done that i should be sharing that it helps me get other guests by saying look at how amazing this video did helps me post publicly but also every day i get this congratulations of look at three things that you got super fired up about and sometimes super pissed about that's pretty cool i i appreciate that i uh you know i've spent most of my week i use I use T3 code.
It's kind of an Orca competitor, paperclip competitor. They're all different. But I've been spending so much time in it.
I've got a Mac mini sitting over here. And I've kept that thing hot this week because we are rebuilding. a call recorder you know we love some elements of granola it runs on the on your computer but it doesn't record the audio it doesn't identify the speakers we love fireflies because that you know it joins meetings automatically you don't have to worry about it it tags the speakers but it but if you're sharing it in a conference room it just labels all those you know speak all those words as from one person the person that joined on zoom and so that's frustrating and it's hard to share so we're just building our own And man, we're probably 85, 90 % of the way through building our own now that just takes all the best features from both of those.
And it's kind of beautiful because we're not going to save any money. It's probably going to be a little more expensive for us to run this per seat every month than to have Fireflies and Granola. But it's going to be exactly what we want.
It's going to be very custom to us. It's going to work really well for us. And then we're also going to give it out to all the fellows that we have in our program, the people that are in our residency to say, hey, this is kind of the best way to.
record calls and get all that juicy context into your AI with as little friction as possible. Man, I so miss being in your office in St. Louis and just seeing like all these little things that are being built.
I had no idea you were doing this. Yeah. I totally get what you're saying.
Yeah. All right, everybody. If you like this, we've got another 10 that you think, we think you're going to love.
It's right there and we'll see you in that one. Bye everyone.
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Frameworks
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ECC build loop
Plan
Test
Implement
Review
Verify
Remember
Improve
The first five steps are standard in skill packs. Remember and Improve write back to agents.md, memories or scripts so the next loop is easier and the agent stops repeating the same mistakes.
Steal forany agent workflow that keeps hitting the same blockers
21:15concept
Workshop vs toolbox
A 292-skill pack is a full workshop: great for an advanced user who will pick and choose, overwhelming for a beginner. A 25-skill pack is a toolbox with one of every basic tool, nothing you will not understand.
Steal forchoosing between two competing tools or deciding how much to ship in a starter kit
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Raise the floor vs superpowers
The same skill pack serves two users: a novice takes it off the shelf and gets professional-grade output, a professional customizes it to their exact demands and gets a superpower.
Steal forpositioning a tool for both beginners and experts
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Raised vs earned test
Judge a business by revenue against capital raised. $500M raised on $5M a year is a failure; $500K raised on $5M a year is a great, sellable business paying its founder millions.
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Andrew Warner and Adam Brakhane run through 13 GitHub repos — three hidden gems plus the week's top 10 — covering a free CapCut alternative, AI agent security, marketing skills, token compression, and a leaked Claude Fable 5 system prompt.
Alibaba ships an automated code reviewer, a hobbyist wires public cameras and flight data into one live map, and a comment-section fight over AI 'skills' files splits 3-to-1 in their favor.
Two hosts run through ten GitHub repos and skills that fix one narrow AI-coding annoyance each, then argue about whether skills are already becoming obsolete.
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