Tools
Software I installed, ran, and formed an opinion about. Every verdict is dated, so you can see how stale it is.
agent infra5
Paperclipusing
Agent org control plane. Verified working on the overnight bench — boots clean, embedded Postgres, telemetry off.
Hermesusing
Telegram-gateway agent runtime. My daily driver.
Headlongwatching
Persistent agent harness. Installed on a Factory droid backend; first real run still pending.
Cabineton-hold
Won my head-to-head demo comparison against two alternatives; full re-scaffold pending. Promising.
cloudflare-osskipped
Lost the same head-to-head to Cabinet on my use case.
agent workspaces3
Synarawatching
Desktop app builds and boots clean end-to-end (Bun + Electron). Works; not yet part of the daily stack.
Buzzon-hold
Block's agent workspace. Cloned, never judged — the source build wants multi-GB toolchain and disk ran out mid-bench. Prebuilt release is the easy path.
WUPHFskipped
Weaker take on what Buzz does, with a restrictive license on top.
claude skills3
improve (shadcn skill)using
Plan-cheap-execute optimization loop as a Claude skill. Cherry-picked from the bench.
davidondrej skill packusing
Three skills kept after a security read: risky-changes (adapted), folder-specific-claude-md, effective-agent-skills.
lazyweb skillskipped
Design-research skill pack with a curl|bash installer; paid tier can decrypt browser cookies. Only ever deliberately, with the cookie-decryption caveat in mind.
web utility4
agent-browserusing
Browser automation CLI for agents — accessibility-tree snapshots at a fraction of screenshot token cost. Daily driver.
Firecrawlusing
Scrape/crawl/extract API for pages that fight plain fetch. Its X postprocessor is the only reliable way I read tweets programmatically.
Is Agenticwatching
Score how ready a website is for AI agents, then get evidence and recommendations to improve it.
pxpipeskipped
Token-saving MITM proxy with documented silent string corruption. Unusable anywhere fidelity matters.
desktop utility4
Dinkyskipped
Unsigned app from a personal tap — not worth the trust exception.
hubble.mdskipped
Duplicates my existing markdown vault workflow.
Macroskipped
The workspace product turned out to be a Notion replacement, not the PDF tool I wanted.
Papercutsskipped
Fine tool, but requires a Rust toolchain I don't want to carry right now.
sandboxes1
Evewatching
Vercel's agent sandbox. Scaffolded and ready to test — needs Node 24.