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Dev tools · July 31, 2026

How to build and self-host a code review agent

Hey HN, I've had a side-project that I've slowly ticked away at over the last year called Tilde. Tilde is a harness SDK platform - I've tried to take the best things of OpenClaw, Hermes & other harnesses and decompose them and make them available as cloud API building blocks. You can use Tilde to create AI agents for your use case, fast and self-host the agent's yourself. The documentation (and attached blog post) leave a lot to be desired in terms of technical documentation but hopefully the attached git repo does a good job of showcasing the API.…

How to build and self-host a code review agent launched on July 31, 2026 with 29 votes, #730 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Tilde is an SDK platform for building and self-hosting AI agents for code review. It provides cloud API building blocks designed to streamline agent creation, drawing from features found in other harness platforms. Developers can use Tilde to quickly set up custom AI agents and deploy them on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external services.

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From the sources

Tilde Agent 1 is an open-source personal assistant that self-learns and updates itself at the end of everyday. It's designed for non-technical users with professional & office work in mind. Easy setup, a first-class UI (no terminal) and a focus on security. Tilde is still a work-in-progress, we'd love to hear your feedback and see what you build with it.

How to build your own code review agent in under 5 minutes

Tilde is a harness SDK for building cloud deployed AI agents, extremely fast. Over a year later into building this side project, point 1 is still true. On the other hand other frameworks, libraries and harnesses have come a long way but I still find myself reaching daily to Tilde to build agents to automate things for me. Having worked through the common pitfall most software engineers make, namely that "there's always one more feature before it's ready" - I can finally convince myself that it's ready. Everything in Tilde is cloud based & centrally managed & permissioned. I've currently built a client-side library to work with Vercel's AI SDK but expect other frameworks and languages to be…from trytilde.ai

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