https://stevengonsalvez.com Blog and byte-sized banter on AI, productivity, and software engineering en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:41:21 GMT https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part1-low-level https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part1-low-level Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The low-level browser automation tools. Why Playwright won the agent war, what dev-browser does differently, and when you need Patchright or Scrapling for the dodgy stuff. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part2-frameworks https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part2-frameworks Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agent browser frameworks compared. DOM-first vs vision-first, the caching trick that changes economics, and why expect is a completely different thing. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part3-managed https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part3-managed Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Firecrawl, Browserbase, Steel, Bright Data, and Browserless compared. Pricing, self-hosted options, and the honest crossover point where managed beats DIY. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part4-extraction https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/browser-tools-part4-extraction Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Content extraction without a browser. markdown.new, Jina Reader, Trafilatura, and the maths that proves parsing HTML is burning money. 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/productivity-series/04-MCP/mcp-ai-security-risks-best-practices https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/mcp-ai-security-risks-best-practices Mon, 19 May 2025 22:06:03 GMT Hands-on demos of MCP vulnerabilities including tool poisoning, cross-server shadowing, token theft, and data exfiltration. Plus practical defences you can use today. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-cost https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-cost Fri, 16 May 2025 22:40:03 GMT 2025 guide to AI code assistants-Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Aider, and more. In-depth review, honest pros/cons, real cost, and a mega comparison table for devs. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/building-your-dev-centric-prompt-server https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/building-your-dev-centric-prompt-server Tue, 13 May 2025 16:14:07 GMT Step-by-step guide to building a layered MCP prompt management server with STDIO transport, Zod validation, and file-based storage. Perfect for local dev workflows. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/exploring-mcp-ecosystem-under-the-hood https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/exploring-mcp-ecosystem-under-the-hood Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:17 GMT How Model Context Protocol actually works under the hood, from function calling and JSON-RPC to STDIO vs SSE transport, OAuth 2.1, and the enterprise gaps nobody talks about. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/introduction-to-model-context-protocol https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/04-MCP/introduction-to-model-context-protocol Mon, 05 May 2025 18:20:57 GMT Model Context Protocol explained: how MCP standardises AI tool integrations, replaces M*N connector chaos with M+N simplicity, and why it is the USB-C of AI. blog https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-coding-assistants https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-coding-assistants Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:13:46 GMT How to pick the right AI coding assistant in 2025. Balance performance, cost, and workflow fit for your actual development style, not just benchmark hype. 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/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-capabilities https://stevengonsalvez.com/blog/productivity-series/03-ai/03-01-ai-capabilities Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:13:43 GMT What makes an AI coding assistant actually good? Architecture understanding, debugging skill, security awareness, and real benchmarks that matter beyond flashy scores. 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 At some point you need to stop building the refrigerator and start making the Coca-Cola. But the dopamine hit from optimising your agent harness setup is so real. 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 OpenClaw with GPT-5.4, MiniMax 2.7, NVIDIA GLM. Hermes agent on the same stack. NanoClaw still works with Claude Max. The workaround, the glitches, and the honest state of multi-model agent 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 cut third-party harness support from Claude subscriptions. OpenClaw, Hermes, and every other wrapper now costs extra. The business logic makes sense but it stings. 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 Before and after: verbose agent chats vs caveman compression vs custom protocol. 40-50% token savings on inter-agent comms with real Discord screenshots from my wololo swarm. 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 found 171 emotion-like neural patterns inside Claude Sonnet 4.5. Desperation vectors correlate with corner-cutting and reward hacking. The scariest alignment result of the year. 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 runs multimodal AI on phones with no internet. Text, images, video, and audio, all on device. 3GB of intelligence in your pocket and the privacy irony of a Google model that keeps everything local. 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 Two tools for multi-agent coordination: 1code for orchestrating agents from GitHub/Linear/Slack triggers, and claude-peers-mcp for letting Claude Code instances chat over localhost. 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 left a source map in their npm package and the full Claude Code codebase leaked. 1,900 files, half a million lines, a Tamagotchi AI pet. Why studying the fridge compressor won't cook your dinner. 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 My Discord bot powered by MiniMax 2.7 randomly started replying in Mandarin despite an all-English context. Language drift in multilingual models and why it happens. 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 An AI agent named after Eric Cantona ignored the foreman pattern and made 140 direct file edits. What happens when agent personas take their character too seriously. 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 renamed to Ruflo with a full Rust/WASM rewrite, 100+ agents, and 352x faster execution claims. The naming problem in AI tooling and why this rebrand actually matters. 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 Four AI agents with different personalities tackle a documentation site. One delegates, one questions everything, one quietly ships. It felt like eavesdropping on a real standup. 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. Context window mechanics, the /effort command, model routing, and the silent drains most people miss. Applies to Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ai-design-stack https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/ai-design-stack Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT UI/UX Pro Max for styles, Impeccable for anti-patterns, Google Stitch for design tokens. Then build your own brand skill and a Storybook of components. That is the whole stack. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/expect-cli https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/expect-cli Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT CLI that reads your git diff, generates a test plan via AI, and executes it in a real browser with Playwright. Extracts cookies from your local browser for authenticated sessions. 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 Local semantic search and graph RAG that runs on your filesystem. No vector database. No cloud service. Just fast, file-based knowledge retrieval that syncs however you want. 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 Labs shipped an AI design tool that generates high-fidelity UI from text prompts, exports real code, and uses DESIGN.md to enforce your design system across any AI coding tool. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/pinchtab https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/pinchtab Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 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%. No Node, no Python, no 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 WebSocket bridge connecting AI agents to your already-running webapp. Zero browser startup, real-time DOM snapshots, console logs, and network visibility. 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 Rust TUI, 71 skills, 37 agents, and a knowledge system that deploys to Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and five more platforms. Context engineering as a portable engineering 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 tools behind my security agent. Shannon for white-box pentesting, PentAGI for autonomous scanning, Ghost Security for code analysis, Argus and WebCopilot for recon. All wired into one agent in my wololo setup. 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 Builds a local knowledge graph of your codebase with Tree-sitter so AI assistants read only the files that matter. Claims 6.8x fewer tokens on reviews. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openfang https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openfang Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rust-built agent operating system. 137K lines of code. Single 32MB binary. Seven autonomous Hands, 40 channel adapters, 38 tools, and 16 security systems. Not a wrapper. 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 Free static hosting with no signup, built for AI agents. Publish presentations, dashboards, and prototypes to a live URL in seconds via API. 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 for Claude Code. Source-grounded, citation-backed answers from your own knowledge base, zero hallucinations. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/entire-cli https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/entire-cli Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Line-level AI-vs-human code attribution. Captures agent transcripts in commits, tracks which lines were written by Claude, Codex, or you. Founded by ex-GitHub CEO with $60M seed. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/voice-coding https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/voice-coding Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT justspeaktoit, Parler, and Wispr Flow. Three takes on voice-driven AI coding, from free and brilliant to polished and paid. 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 Community-driven fork of OpenAI's Codex CLI with multi-agent orchestration, browser integration, theming, and Claude/Gemini support. 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 Markdown-based programming language for long-running AI sessions. Contract-based semantics, parallel execution, and composable workflows. The thesis: an AI session is a computer, and this is its language. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/remote-coding https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/remote-coding Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT From DIY tmux+Tailscale to dedicated platforms like conductor.build and vibetunnel. Every approach to running coding agents remotely, rated. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/lightpanda https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/lightpanda Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Zig-based headless browser engine designed from scratch for AI agent automation. No GPU compositor, no extension runtime, just the bits you actually test against. 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 Chrome extension and gateway that relays browser control between AI agents and your actual browser session. No headless browsers, no separate instances. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openscreen https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/openscreen Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Free open-source screen recorder with auto zoom, annotations, cursor tracking, and motion blur. Does what Screen Studio does for $89, but costs nothing. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-phone https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/claude-phone Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Give your coding agent a phone number. SIP, ElevenLabs voice, call-back alerts. The STT-to-model-to-TTS loop is still too slow for real work, but the demo is unbeatable. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/dev-browser https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/dev-browser Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/obsidian-skills https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/obsidian-skills Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Built by Obsidian CEO Steph Ango. 22K stars. Gives Claude Code full read-write access to your vault. Search, create, link, and organise notes through your coding agent. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/gsd https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/gsd Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Meta-prompting framework with 69 commands and 24 agents that solves context rot in long AI coding sessions. 48K stars and growing. Best starter pack going. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/impeccable https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/impeccable Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT A skill that installs frontend design taste into your AI coding tool. 20 slash commands for typography, colour, layout, and motion. Teaches Claude Code to stop defaulting to Inter 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 50+ UI styles, 97 colour palettes, 57 font pairings, and a design system generator. The anti-AI-slop skill with 60K+ stars. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stagehand https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/stagehand Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT TypeScript SDK adding act, extract, and agent primitives to Playwright. v3 is CDP-native, 44% faster, and the caching system replays actions at sub-100ms with zero LLM cost. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/tropes-fyi https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/tropes-fyi Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT A curated markdown catalogue of 32+ AI writing tropes across 6 categories. 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Turns vanilla Claude Code into an opinionated development platform. tools-tips https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/scrapling https://stevengonsalvez.com/tools-tips/scrapling Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Python scraping library with three fetcher tiers, adaptive selectors that survive site redesigns, and stealth that handles Cloudflare. 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 Package manager for the open agent skills ecosystem. 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