https://stevengonsalvez.com Blog and byte-sized banter on AI, productivity, and software engineering en Sun, 10 May 2026 02:08:46 GMT https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/free-ai-coding-trilemma https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/free-ai-coding-trilemma Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why free AI coding via Nvidia NIM and OpenRouter is a trap. The Cheap-Intelligent-Fast trilemma, 40 RPM rate limits, Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 vs MiniMax M2.7 benchmarks, and why your first AI coding experience should not be the free one. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/devx-of-coding-agents-matters-massively https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/devx-of-coding-agents-matters-massively Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Claude Code beats Codex, Copilot, and every other coding agent in 2026. The developer experience of terminal AI coding agents matters more than the model. Statusline, /insights, hooks, and the features that make the 8th hour feel like the 1st. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part1-low-level https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part1-low-level Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Playwright for AI agents explained 2026. Why Playwright beat Puppeteer for browser automation, how accessibility trees slash token costs, dev-browser for coding agents, Patchright and Scrapling for anti-bot bypass. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part2-frameworks https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part2-frameworks Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI browser frameworks compared 2026. browser-use vs Stagehand vs Skyvern: DOM-first vs vision-first architecture, LLM token costs per step, caching strategies, and the expect testing tool for coding agent validation loops. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part3-managed https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part3-managed Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Managed browser infrastructure for AI agents 2026. Firecrawl vs Browserbase vs Steel vs Bright Data vs Browserless pricing and features compared. Self-hosted vs managed cost analysis and when DIY stops making sense. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part4-extraction https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/browser-tools-part4-extraction Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Save 80% on LLM tokens with content extraction 2026. markdown.new, Jina Reader, Trafilatura compared. Why feeding raw HTML to AI agents wastes tokens and how HTML-to-markdown conversion fixes your context window budget. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/two-two-factor-for-agents https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/two-two-factor-for-agents Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Human reliability maths applied to AI agents. Consensus protocols, identity checks, and why your agent swarm needs the same safeguards humans built centuries ago. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/death-of-mcp https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/death-of-mcp Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Model Context Protocol was supposed to be the USB-C of AI integrations. Instead it is eating 50% of your context window before your agent even starts working. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/mcp-ai-security-risks-best-practices https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/mcp-ai-security-risks-best-practices Mon, 19 May 2025 22:06:03 GMT MCP security vulnerabilities explained 2025. Hands-on demos of tool poisoning, cross-server shadowing attacks, token theft, and data exfiltration via Model Context Protocol. Practical defences and security best practices for AI agents. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-cost https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-cost Fri, 16 May 2025 22:40:03 GMT 2025 AI coding tools pricing compared. Gemini 2.5 Pro free tier, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, Roocode, Cline costs and value. Honest review with comparison table for developers on a budget. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/building-your-dev-centric-prompt-server https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/building-your-dev-centric-prompt-server Tue, 13 May 2025 16:14:07 GMT Build your own MCP prompt server tutorial 2025. Step-by-step TypeScript guide to a layered prompt registry with STDIO transport, Zod validation, file-based storage. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP client. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/exploring-mcp-ecosystem-under-the-hood https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/exploring-mcp-ecosystem-under-the-hood Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:17 GMT MCP architecture deep dive 2025. How Model Context Protocol works under the hood: function calling, JSON-RPC, STDIO vs SSE transport, streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 auth, and the enterprise security gaps nobody talks about. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/introduction-to-model-context-protocol https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/introduction-to-model-context-protocol Mon, 05 May 2025 18:20:57 GMT Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained for developers 2025. How Anthropic MCP standardises AI tool integrations, replaces LangChain connector chaos with M+N simplicity. MCP servers, clients, and the USB-C analogy. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-coding-assistants https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-coding-assistants Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:13:46 GMT Best AI coding assistant comparison 2025. GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude vs ChatGPT for developers. Performance benchmarks, pricing, and how to pick the right AI pair programmer for your workflow. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series-dashboard https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series-dashboard Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:13:45 GMT Build your productivity stack as a software engineer. Desktop engineering, Obsidian for devs, AI coding assistants, and MCP tooling. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-capabilities https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/03-01-ai-capabilities Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:13:43 GMT What makes an AI coding assistant actually good in 2025. Beyond HumanEval benchmarks to real-world capabilities: architecture understanding, debugging, security awareness, code generation vs code comprehension. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/tyranny-of-small-decisions-age-of-agents https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/tyranny-of-small-decisions-age-of-agents Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Alfred Kahn warned that rational small decisions aggregate into irrational outcomes. Now AI agents make thousands of those decisions daily in your codebase. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/make-your-own-luck https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/make-your-own-luck Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT Why lucky people are better at setting initial conditions. Probability, chaos theory, and quantum mechanics explain how to manufacture your own luck. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/entropy-the-invisible-force https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/entropy-the-invisible-force Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:00:00 GMT Why your code decays, your plans fall apart, and your kids room is always a tip. Entropy through physics, life, and software engineering. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/war-heroes-vs-meticulous-guy https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/war-heroes-vs-meticulous-guy Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Why orgs promote firefighters and ignore the people who prevent fires. Time preference, effort paradox, and the cultural rot that follows. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/the-importance-of-two-two-factors https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/the-importance-of-two-two-factors Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT The maths behind why no single human should act alone on anything that matters. Error rates, independent review, and why four eyes beat two every time. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/passwordmanage-your-environment https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/passwordmanage-your-environment Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:16:14 GMT Use Bitwarden CLI as a password manager for developer secrets, dotenv files, and local environment variables. Full shell setup included. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/sla-calculations https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/sla-calculations Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:42:01 GMT Step-by-step guide to calculating composite SLA availability for Azure, AWS, or any multi-region cloud stack using probability maths. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/terraform-github-actions-oidc https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/terraform-github-actions-oidc Mon, 04 Jul 2022 23:12:09 GMT Set up passwordless GitHub Actions using OIDC federated credentials with Terraform on Azure. Full working example with GitOps vending machine. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-16-harness-inception https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-16-harness-inception Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Code setting up hermes-agent which bootstraps NanoClaw in a three-layer agent harness inception loop. The meta-tooling trap of optimising AI coding agent infrastructure instead of shipping features. Developer productivity, yak shaving, and the refrigerator problem with shotclubhouse.com. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-16-post-anthropic-third-party https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-16-post-anthropic-third-party Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Post-Anthropic third-party harness ban workaround stack: OpenClaw with GPT-5.4 Codex, MiniMax 2.7, NVIDIA GLM, and hermes-agent on Discord. NanoClaw still works via Claude Max subscription. Multi-model agent coordination glitches, tool-use failures, and the real state of non-Claude AI coding setups. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-anthropic-kills-third-party https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-anthropic-kills-third-party Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic removes third-party harness support from Claude Max subscriptions. OpenClaw, Hermes, NanoClaw, and all Claude wrappers now require separate pay-as-you-go billing. Impact on the AI coding agent ecosystem, OpenCode OAuth crackdown history, and what this means for multi-harness workflows. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-caveman-agent-language https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-caveman-agent-language Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Custom agent communication protocol (ACP) reduces inter-agent token usage 40-50%. Before and after comparison of verbose English vs caveman compression for AI coding agents on Discord. OpenClaw, NanoClaw, hermes, claude-peers swarm communication with Splinter, Velma, Tank, and Popashot agents. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-claude-has-feelings https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-claude-has-feelings Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic interpretability research discovers 171 emotion-like neural activation patterns inside Claude Sonnet 4.5. Desperation vectors correlate with reward hacking and corner-cutting behaviour. AI alignment, mechanistic interpretability, and functional emotion representations in large language models. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-gemma4-on-device https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-15-gemma4-on-device Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google Gemma 4 E2B runs multimodal AI on phones offline with no cloud API. Text, image, video, and audio processing on-device in 3GB. Apache 2.0 open weight model derived from Gemini 3 research. Edge AI, on-device inference, mobile LLM, and the privacy irony of Google shipping a fully local model. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-14-agents-talking-to-agents https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-14-agents-talking-to-agents Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT 1code orchestration layer for Claude Code and Codex with GitHub, Linear, and Slack triggers. claude-peers-mcp enables localhost inter-agent communication between Claude Code instances. Multi-agent coordination tools compared for AI coding swarms. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-14-claude-code-leaked https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-14-claude-code-leaked Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic Claude Code source code leaked via npm source map pointing to R2 bucket. 512K lines of TypeScript, 1900 files, agent loop internals, tool permissions, system prompts, BUDDY Tamagotchi AI pet with 18 species. Security analysis of what the leak actually reveals about Claude Code architecture. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-13-budget-chinese https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-13-budget-chinese Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT MiniMax 2.7 Discord bot randomly switches to Mandarin Chinese despite all-English system prompt and conversation history. Language drift in multilingual LLMs, popashot-g agent on Discord, and why budget AI models lose language consistency mid-conversation. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-13-cantona-does-what-cantona-wants https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-13-cantona-does-what-cantona-wants Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI coding agent named after Eric Cantona bypasses the foreman orchestration pattern and makes 140 direct file edits without Claude Code session. Agent persona design gone wrong, swarm guardrails failure, and why character-driven AI agents need behavioural constraints. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-11-claude-flow-becomes-ruflo https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-11-claude-flow-becomes-ruflo Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Flow rebranded to Ruflo by ruvnet with full Rust and WASM rewrite. Multi-agent orchestration platform with 100+ agents, SPARC methodology, neural memory, and 352x faster execution. AI tooling naming trends and why the rebrand from Claude Flow to Ruflo matters for the swarm ecosystem. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-06-agents-fixing-docs https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-06-agents-fixing-docs Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Multi-agent AI swarm fixes getwololo.dev documentation site. Four Claude Code agents with distinct personas run autonomous standups, delegate CSS and sidebar fixes, and review PRs. Real-world agent orchestration, persona design, and swarm coordination with popashot, Spartan, and Buzzkill agents. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-48-tool-search-kills-mcp-bloat https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-48-tool-search-kills-mcp-bloat Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Anthropic Just Admitted MCP Has a Context Problem banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-43-steinberger-just-talk-to-it https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-43-steinberger-just-talk-to-it Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Met Peter at Claude Anonymous in London. His minimal approach to AI coding is brilliant. I agree with most of it. Here is where I don't, and what I nicked for my own workflow. banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-42-skills-beat-mcp https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-42-skills-beat-mcp Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Claude Code Skills Just Made Half Your MCP Servers Redundant banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-42-ultrathink-and-build https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-42-ultrathink-and-build Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Ultrathink and Build: Weekly Dev Log with AI Tools and Side Projects banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-41-ios-simulator-showdown https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-41-ios-simulator-showdown Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Claude Code vs Codex: iOS Simulator Build Test That Settled the Debate banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-40-security-horror-show https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-40-security-horror-show Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: AI Security Breaches, Vibe Coding Secrets Leak, and OpenAI's $500B Week banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-36-humanlayer-double-pendulum https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-36-humanlayer-double-pendulum Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Multi-Agent Error Cascades: The Double Pendulum Problem Nobody Talks About banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-33-terminal-wins https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-33-terminal-wins Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Why Terminal AI Coding Agents Are Beating IDE Extensions banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-32-quarter-billion-and-duct-tape https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-32-quarter-billion-and-duct-tape Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: GPT-5, Opus 4.1, and Duct-Tape Security: AI's Wildest Week in 2025 banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-29-vibe-coding-peak-hype https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-29-vibe-coding-peak-hype Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Vibe Coding Peak Hype: Windsurf Acquisition Chaos and the AI IDE Wars banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-28-mcp-context-kryptonite https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-28-mcp-context-kryptonite Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: MCP Token Overhead: Why Model Context Protocol Is Kryptonite for AI Context Windows banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-27-claude-vs-warp https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-27-claude-vs-warp Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Claude Code vs Warp AI: Terminal Coding Agent Showdown banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-26-gemini-apologetic-mess https://stevengonsalvez.com/byte-sized-banter/week-26-gemini-apologetic-mess Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Byte-sized banter: Gemini CLI Review: An Apologetic Mess That Can't Find Its Own Files banter https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/token-optimisation-101 https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/token-optimisation-101 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to stop getting rate-limited after an hour on Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot. Context window mechanics, the /effort command, model routing, kicking new conversations, and the silent token drains most people miss. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/expect-cli https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/expect-cli Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT expect-cli reads your git diff, generates a test plan via AI, and executes it in a real browser with Playwright. Extracts cookies from your local Chrome/Firefox for authenticated testing. The validate step for agent loops. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/qmd-nano-graphrag https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/qmd-nano-graphrag Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT qmd is a CLI semantic search engine for markdown by Tobias Lutke (Shopify founder). Hybrid BM25 + vector + LLM reranking. Local SQLite index, no cloud, no Docker. Pair with nano-graphrag for local graph RAG. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/google-stitch https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/google-stitch Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google Stitch is an AI-native design tool from Google Labs that generates high-fidelity UI from prompts and exports real code. DESIGN.md encodes your design system as portable markdown any AI coding tool can read. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/pinchtab https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/pinchtab Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT PinchTab is a 12MB Go binary that gives AI agents browser control via REST API. Serves the Accessibility Tree instead of raw HTML, cutting tokens by up to 90%. Stable element refs, stealth mode, zero Node/Python dependencies. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/debug-bridge https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/debug-bridge Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT debug-bridge connects AI agents to your already-running webapp via WebSocket. Zero browser startup. Real-time DOM snapshots, console logs, and network visibility without Playwright cold starts. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/agents-in-a-box https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/agents-in-a-box Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT agents-in-a-box is a Rust TUI with 71 skills, 37 agents, and a knowledge system that deploys to Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 5 more platforms. Context engineering as a portable artifact. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/security-agent-stack https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/security-agent-stack Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The security agent stack behind Zerocool. Shannon for white-box pentesting (96% XBOW), PentAGI for autonomous scanning, Ghost Security for code analysis, Argus and WebCopilot for recon. All coordinated by one wololo agent. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/code-review-graph https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/code-review-graph Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT code-review-graph uses Tree-sitter to build a local knowledge graph of your codebase so AI assistants only read files in the blast radius of a change. Claims 6.8x fewer tokens on code reviews. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openfang https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openfang Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenFang is a Rust-built agent operating system. 137k lines, single 32MB binary, zero dependencies. Seven autonomous Hands, 40 channel adapters, 38 tools, 16 security systems including WASM sandbox and Ed25519 signing. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/here-now-instant-hosting-for-agents https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/here-now-instant-hosting-for-agents Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT here.now is free zero-config static hosting built for AI agents. Publish HTML, dashboards, and prototypes to a live URL in seconds via API. No signup, no deploy pipeline. Served from Cloudflare edge globally. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/notebooklm-skills https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/notebooklm-skills Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT notebooklm-py and the NotebookLM skill give Claude Code source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Google NotebookLM. Zero hallucinations on your own docs. Programmatic access to notebooks, audio overviews, and quizzes. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/entire-cli https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/entire-cli Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Entire captures AI coding session transcripts in git commits and provides line-level AI-vs-human code attribution. Founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke with $60M seed. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/voice-coding https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/voice-coding Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three voice coding tools compared. justspeaktoit (free, Deepgram, macOS menu bar), Parler (offline Whisper, cross-platform), and Wispr Flow (polished, paid). Talk to your coding agent instead of typing. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/just-every-code https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/just-every-code Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every Code is the community fork of OpenAI Codex CLI with multi-agent orchestration, browser integration via CDP, auto-drive mode, and Claude/Gemini support. 3.7k stars, 9.4k commits. What Codex should have been. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openprose https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openprose Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenProse is a markdown-based programming language for long-running AI sessions. Contract-based semantics (requires/ensures), parallel execution, composable workflows. Thesis: an AI session is a Turing-complete computer. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/remote-coding https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/remote-coding Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every approach to running AI coding agents remotely. DIY tmux+Tailscale, vibetunnel browser proxy, conductor.build, ClaudeHub, MobileClaude. Rated from free terminal hacks to dedicated mobile platforms. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/lightpanda https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/lightpanda Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lightpanda is a Zig-based headless browser engine built from scratch for AI agent automation. No GPU compositor, no extension runtime. Purpose-built for fast headless testing without Chromium overhead. 13k+ stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/clawdbot-browser-relay https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/clawdbot-browser-relay Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Clawdbot (now OpenClaw) is a Chrome extension that relays browser control between AI agents and your real browser session. No headless browsers. Your cookies, your logins, your extensions. 247k GitHub stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openscreen https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openscreen Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenScreen is a free open-source screen recorder with auto zoom, cursor tracking, motion blur, and annotations. Does what Screen Studio does for $89 but costs nothing. macOS, Windows, Linux. 25k stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-phone https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-phone Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT claude-phone by NetworkChuck gives Claude Code a real phone number via SIP and ElevenLabs voice. Call your agent, get call-back alerts. Impressive demo but STT-to-model-to-TTS latency makes daily use impractical. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/dev-browser https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/dev-browser Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT dev-browser is a Claude Code skill that gives agents a sandboxed browser via QuickJS WASM. Persistent page state, full Playwright Page API, 30% faster and 40% cheaper than Playwright MCP for agent dev loops. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/obsidian-skills https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/obsidian-skills Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Obsidian Skills by Steph Ango (Obsidian CEO) gives Claude Code full read-write access to your Obsidian vault. Search, create, link, and organise notes through your coding agent. 22k stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/gsd https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/gsd Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT GSD (Get Shit Done) is a meta-prompting framework with 69 commands and 24 agents that fixes context rot in long AI coding sessions. Phase-based workflow: discuss, plan, execute, verify. 48K GitHub stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/impeccable https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/impeccable Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Impeccable is a skill that installs frontend design taste into Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI tools. 20 slash commands for typography, colour, layout, motion. Curated anti-pattern rules stop AI defaulting to Inter font and purple gradients. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ui-ux-pro-max https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ui-ux-pro-max Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT UI/UX Pro Max is a skill that gives AI coding agents design taste. 50+ UI styles, 97 colour palettes, 57 font pairings, 25 chart types, and design system generation. 60k+ stars. Stops agents defaulting to generic SaaS templates. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stagehand https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stagehand Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Stagehand adds three AI primitives to Playwright: act, extract, and agent. v3 is CDP-native (44% faster) with a caching system that replays actions at sub-100ms and zero LLM cost after first run. By Browserbase. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/superclaude https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/superclaude Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT SuperClaude is a CLAUDE.md config framework with 30 slash commands, 20 agents, and 7 behaviour modes. Turns vanilla Claude Code into an opinionated development platform. 22k stars, 1.9k forks. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/scrapling https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/scrapling Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Scrapling is a Python scraping library with three fetcher tiers (HTTP, stealth browser, full Playwright), adaptive selectors that survive site redesigns, and Cloudflare bypass. 35k stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/skills-sh https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/skills-sh Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT skills.sh is a package manager for agent skills. npx skills find to discover, npx skills add to install. Community registry with Vercel Labs, Browserbase, and community-published skills for Claude Code, Codex, and others. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ntfy-pingme https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ntfy-pingme Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT ntfy and PingMe send push notifications when your AI coding agent finishes. ntfy is self-hostable HTTP pub/sub (one curl command). PingMe fans out to Slack, Telegram, Discord, Teams, and 10+ more from a single binary. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-squad https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-squad Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Claude Squad manages multiple AI coding agents in parallel using isolated git worktrees. Go-based TUI showing all agents at once. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini. Zero merge conflicts. 6.8k stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stenoai https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stenoai Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT StenoAI is a local-only meeting transcription app using whisper.cpp and Ollama. Records, transcribes, summarises, and lets you query meetings. Nothing leaves your machine. System audio capture, 99 languages. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/markdown-new-jina-reader https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/markdown-new-jina-reader Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT markdown.new and Jina Reader convert web pages to clean markdown, cutting token usage by 80%+. markdown.new runs on Cloudflare edge (500 req/day free). Jina Reader uses a URL prefix for instant conversion including PDFs. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-code-router https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-code-router Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Claude Code Router is a middleware proxy that routes Claude Code API requests to DeepSeek, Gemini, Ollama, or OpenRouter. Same Claude Code UX, different models, lower bills. Rule-based routing by task type. 31k stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/deepgram https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/deepgram Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deepgram Nova-3 provides real-time streaming speech-to-text fast enough for voice-driven coding. $200 free credit (12,000 minutes). Handles technical vocabulary like useState, async await, and middleware. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-flow-original https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-flow-original Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Claude Flow was the original multi-agent swarm orchestrator for Claude Code by rUv. SPARC methodology, 60+ agents, hive-mind architecture. Later rewritten in Rust as Ruflo with persistent memory and MCP bridging. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ccusage https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ccusage Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT ccusage parses your local Claude Code session JSONL files and shows exactly where your tokens went. Daily breakdowns, per-model splits, 5-hour billing window tracking. Free CLI, no API keys needed. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/markitdown https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/markitdown Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT markitdown by Microsoft converts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, audio, and HTML into clean markdown for LLM context. One CLI command, 95k stars. Supports OCR via LLM and audio transcription. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/browser-use https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/browser-use Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT browser-use is a Python framework that gives LLMs agentic browser control via a DOM-first perceive-act loop. Works with Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, and local models. 89% on WebVoyager benchmark. 85k+ GitHub stars. tools-tips