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book-to-skill feeds your agent one chapter, not the book

Turn a book into an agent skill with book-to-skill: it compiles a PDF into chapter files your agent loads on demand, using a fraction of the tokens.

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Best AI image tools 2026

Best AI image tools 2026 ranked on text rendering, vector output, and commercial rights. Which free tiers export a clean file, and which watermark it.

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Palmier Pro lets your AI agent cut video on your Mac

Palmier Pro is an open source video editor for Mac that opens an MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can cut and arrange your timeline for you.

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DeepTutor is the AI tutor that remembers every lesson

DeepTutor is an open source AI tutor with inspectable memory, versioned knowledge bases, and a command line another agent can drive with JSON output.

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Voicebox clones your voice and gives it to Claude Code

Voicebox is an open source voice cloning app that runs on your own machine, adds system-wide dictation, and gives coding agents a voice over MCP.

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OfficeCLI turns 50 lines of Python into a single command

OfficeCLI lets AI agents edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from one binary, and renders them to HTML or PNG so the agent can check its own work.

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Compare the best local image generation models on text-in-image accuracy, prompt adherence, VRAM, speed, and license to find your sweet spot.

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Opus 5.5 is the Claude comeback Reddit was waiting for

Opus 5.5 Reddit threads call it the Claude comeback. It finally talks like a person, limits stretch further, and Fable 5.1 still wins some coding tests.

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