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Products that do what Ami – A local, open-source agent that does your busywork across apps does
Hey everybody, sharing Ami on HN today. Ami is an open source, local-first agent harness that acts as your shadow worker and copilot chat. It ships with a graph memory. Here's what Ami does on its own - - connects to apps, data, repositories, tools with your personal tokens - Learns how you do tasks (execution style, decisions, anti-patterns) - Learns how you communicate (external and internal) - maintains a universal to-do list Here's how you use Ami - 1. You can execute busywork. It fetches and executes tasks autonomously in your style, asks approval before risky actions, gives…
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Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…
2024 · github.com
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Hi HF, I'm Terrell, and we built an open-source app that lets developers create their own Operator with a Next.js/React front-end and a flask back-end. The purpose is to simplify spinning up virtual desktops (Xfce, VNC) and automate desktop-based interactions using computer use models like OpenAI’s There are already various cool tools out there that allow you to build your own operator-like experience but they usually only automate web browser actions, or aren’t open sourced/cost a lot to get started. Spongecake allows you to automate desktop-based interactions, and is fully open…
2025 · github.com
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Hey HN! We've just open-sourced Agent, our framework for running computer-use workflows across multiple apps in isolated macOS/Linux sandboxes. After launching Computer a few weeks ago, we realized many of you wanted to run complex workflows that span multiple applications. Agent builds on Computer to make this possible. It works with local Ollama models (if you're privacy-minded) or cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. Why we built this: We kept hitting the same problems when building multi-app AI agents - they'd break in unpredictable ways, work inconsistently across…
2025 · github.com
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Hi HN — I’m building an interoperability layer for AI agents that lets local and remote agents run inside the same network and coordinate with each other. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/2_1U-Jr8wf4 • OpenClaw runs locally on-device • it connects to remote agents through Hybro Hub • both participate in the same workflow execution The goal is to make agent-to-agent coordination work across environments (local machines, cloud agents, MCP servers, etc). Right now most agent systems operate inside isolated runtimes. Hybro is an attempt to make them composable across boundaries.…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, I'm Mo. I've been building Paseo, an open source environment for running Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode across desktop, mobile, web, and CLI. It started last September as a push-to-talk voice interface for Claude Code. I wanted to talk to an agent while going on walks. Then I wanted to see what it was doing. Then text it when I couldn't talk. Then review diffs, run multiple agents, and manage work across machines. After a lot of iteration, it turned into a broader environment. The basic model is: - A daemon runs on your machine (MacBook, desktop, VPS, etc.). - Clients connect to it…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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