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Open Source Radar — August 15: agents get browsers & control planes

The coding-agent parade paused today — none of this week's workspace bets repeat, so the board is fresh. The signal is the layer around agents: a browser built to share with yours, a control plane for work that runs for days, and DeepSeek's official playbook for wiring its models into every agent tool. Three projects worth your attention. ego-lite (JavaScript, ~10.6k stars) — A macOS browser built from the ground up for agent automation: your agents run browser tasks in their own Spaces while y

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AI 101 — What is RAG?

RAG — retrieval-augmented generation — is a technique that lets an AI model look things up in a document store before it answers, by pulling the most relevant passages into the conversation. Instead of relying only on what it memorized during training, the model gets the right pages placed in front of it and writes its answer with those pages open. It is the standard way companies connect chatbots and agents to their own data. Why it's in the news RAG rarely makes headlines on its own — it's

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DeepSeek open-sources Harness — everything is a plugin

DeepSeek is moving up the stack from models to the software developers actually use, and Uber is scaling robotaxis across Europe. Two open-source and mobility moves to start your Friday. DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source agent harness under the MIT license in developer preview, built on an architecture where "every capability is a plugin" — from the model adapter and tool registry to the session log and the agent loop itself. It's the lab's first serious product beyond th

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Open Source Radar — August 14: agents get an operating system

Coding agents still own the trending board, but today's freshest signal is the layer around them: two all-in-one agent workspaces, an NVIDIA router that points closed-agent tools at open models, and the leading open-source RAG engine holding its daily spot. Four projects worth your attention. holaOS (TypeScript, ~6.9k stars) — An all-in-one agent workspace that calls itself "the computer for you and your agent": Claude Code, Codex, or its built-in agent run side by side over the same tools, fil

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Open Source Radar — August 13: decks, video & a 14MB agent

The coding-agent parade paused and the daily board filled with makers instead: a deck generator that ships real PowerPoint files, a financial-market foundation model, Lightricks' one-model audio-video release, and a tool-calling agent small enough to live on a thermostat. Four projects worth your attention. PPT Master (Python, ~46k stars) — An AI workflow that turns PDFs, documents, or topics into native PowerPoint decks: real slide masters, native shapes with working adjustment handles, transi

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Open Source Radar — August 12: skills standard & parallel agents

The skills pattern just got its official reference implementation, and the freshest signal on today's board is scale: whole fleets of coding agents running in parallel instead of one in a terminal. Three projects worth your attention. anthropics/skills (Python, ~168k stars) — Anthropic's official Agent Skills repository and the reference implementation behind the open Agent Skills standard. Skills are self-contained folders of instructions and scripts that Claude loads on demand for specialized

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Mojo 1.0 ships — Modular's AI-native language goes stable

Modular today released Mojo 1.0, the first stable version of Chris Lattner's AI-native programming language, three years after its debut. The release caps a roadmap laid out last December and turns a language long viewed as promising-but-moving into one the company says developers can build on for years. Mojo 1.0 is here: Modular shipped the stable version of its AI-native language on August 11 as part of the Modular 26.5 release. Mojo was launched in 2023 by Lattner — creator of LLVM and Swift

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Open Source Radar: August 10 — beyond the coding agent

Coding agents owned the trending board for two days straight. Today's signal is different: the hottest open-source repos are specialized — a legal-agent benchmark from Harvey, a 61.6k-star stock-analysis system, and ComfyUI still shipping weekly at the top of the image-gen stack. ComfyUI (Python, ~126k stars) — The most-starred AI repo on GitHub, and it isn't coasting: v0.31.0 landed on August 8, the latest stop in a weekly release train whose newest commits add Qwen-Image 3.0 generation and ed

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Claude Code makes auto mode the default for paid plans

Two stories this evening, both about who gets to decide what an AI coding agent is allowed to do — Anthropic is handing that decision to a classifier, and Meta is finally entering the arena. Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14, replacing the per-command approval flow with a classifier that decides when a human actually needs to be asked. Auto mode routes every action through a guard that blocks anything irreversible, destructi

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Open Source Radar: August 8 — skills wars & self-improving agents

Yesterday's watchlist is today's trending board: Google shipped its official agent-skills repo, PrimeIntellect's self-improving coding agent keeps climbing, and a 96k-star multi-agent trading framework retook the top spot. Three open-source projects worth your attention. TradingAgents (Python, ~96k stars) — A multi-agent framework that mirrors a real trading firm: fundamental, sentiment, news, and technical analysts feed bullish and bearish researchers who debate, then a trader and risk team tu

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The CPU is back — Red Hat's case for CPU-first inference

Red Hat's engineers argue the agentic era is rewriting the compute economics of AI — and the data from Intel, Arm, and NVIDIA backs them up. Red Hat is making a forceful case that the CPU is back in AI infrastructure, and it's hard to argue with the numbers it marshals. In a post from its developer advocates that hit the top of Hacker News, the company argues that agentic AI — tool calls, multistep reasoning, and orchestration across many small specialized models — fundamentally changes where i

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Open Source Radar: August 7 — agent skills & coding agents heat up

Skills went from niche to default this week: Addy Osmani's engineering pack passed 80k stars, and the trending board filled out with terminal coding agents and agent-infrastructure tooling. Four open-source projects worth running, plus a watchlist. DeepSeek-Reasonix (Go, ~33k stars) — A DeepSeek-native coding agent for the terminal, engineered around prefix-cache stability: repeated context hits the cache instead of the bill, so long-running sessions stay cheap. That's the differentiator — most

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