Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development
Hey HN, I am 16y/o and have been working on Sprocket for a while. It's an open-source AI agent that beats every other agent out there at both hardware and software. And here's the best part: Sprocket can (on its own) buy anything from any website when you tell it to do so. From hardware parts to SaaS subscriptions. Sprocket retrieves best-in-class context from the web for everything it does. It is therefore incredibly reliable. The agent harness's quality, performance, and UI rival that of Codex/Cursor/T3Code, and we are rapidly improving. We will be releasing benchmarks on…
Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development launched on August 2, 2026 with 124 votes, #262 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Sprocket is an open-source AI agent designed for hardware and software development. It can autonomously purchase items from websites, generate hardware schematics and bills of materials, create assembly instructions, and retrieve web context to inform its work. The tool is built for developers and engineers working on both software and hardware projects who need an agent capable of handling procurement and design tasks.
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The best and only AI agent for developing both hardware and software - spikonado/sprocket
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I am 16y/o and have been working on Sprocket for a while. It's an open-source AI agent that beats every other agent out there at both hardware and software. And here's the best part: Sprocket can (on its own) buy anything from any website when you tell it to do so. From hardware parts to SaaS…
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