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DSH Desktop is an open‑source Thin‑Electron client that treats desktop capabilities—window, tray, terminal, updates, and configuration—as first‑class DSH plugins via the Cordis host, offering installation rollback, startup recovery, and safeguards against accidental plugin disabling.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open‑source agent framework that implements a complete plugin architecture, eliminating a privileged core, providing event‑sourced session logs, and allowing all capabilities to be swapped via configuration, positioning it as the new benchmark for open‑source agent runtimes.
triproxy is a lightweight Go‑based HTTP gateway that translates between OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages protocols, supporting full request/response bodies, SSE streaming, and encrypted reasoning, enabling any client—OpenAI SDK, Codex CLI, Claude Code—to access any LLM model without modification.
Octop is a self‑hosted AI assistant platform that supports multiple users and agents in a single process, integrating a web console, CLI, IM channels, scheduled tasks, browser automation, and ACP integration while keeping all data and credentials on the local machine.
Orchard is Microsoft’s open‑source, Kubernetes‑native agent modeling platform that isolates execution in lightweight sandboxes, separates control‑plane operations, supports arbitrary base images and multiple built‑in harnesses, and—according to official benchmarks—delivers an average command latency of 0.28 seconds when running 1,000 concurrent sandboxes.
The open‑source Rust CLI surface scans a local machine, detects up to 18 AI tools, extracts browser‑history AI domains, measures token usage per model, calculates costs with three pricing states, offers a TUI dashboard, JSON output, and privacy‑first design without any network or privileged access.
The Karpathy‑LLM‑Coding‑Rules repository offers ten executable, bilingual rules that constrain AI coding agents like Claude and Codex, providing clear validation criteria and anti‑pattern names to prevent over‑refactoring, hidden bugs, and unbounded dependencies, and can be dropped into a project with a single file copy.
Open‑AI‑Canvas is an open‑source infinite‑canvas workbench that integrates multimodal AI generation, a structured storyboard workflow, and a three‑layer architecture to let creators turn a piece of text into a complete short‑film entirely within a browser.
Claude‑of‑Duty is a fully browser‑based first‑person shooter generated by a single AI prompt, featuring 70 000 lines of code, 11 modular subsystems and zero external art assets, showcasing how multi‑agent AI collaboration can tackle complex graphics engineering tasks.
wigolo is an open‑source, local‑first web search platform for AI coding agents that removes API keys and query costs, caches results in a SQLite + vector store, supports 18 parallel search engines, offers intelligent crawling, research pipelines, and compares favorably against cloud‑based alternatives like Firecrawl, Exa and Tavily.
