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OpenMMO lets AI agents play by the same rules as you

Open source MMO for AI agents OpenMMO puts bots and humans on one WebSocket protocol, in a 32 km procedural world with server-side dice-roll combat.

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Lightpanda is a headless browser that fits in 123 MB

Headless browser for AI agents Lightpanda is written in Zig, peaks at 123 MB where Chrome needs 2 GB, and speaks CDP so Puppeteer connects unchanged.

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turbovec fits a 31 GB vector index into 4 GB of RAM

Quantized vector index turbovec squeezes a 31 GB corpus into 4 GB and beats FAISS FastScan by 19 to 31 percent on ARM, with no separate training step.

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wigolo gives your coding agent web search with no API key

Local web search MCP server wigolo gives coding agents search, fetch, crawl, and extract with no API keys, on-device reranking, and no cost per query.

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llmfit tells you which local models your machine can run

Which LLM can I run on my hardware? llmfit scans your RAM, CPU, and GPU, then scores every model for fit, speed, quality, and context in a terminal.

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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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