237 points by steveybrown 2 days ago | 138 comments | View on ycombinator
vegadw 2 days ago |
lbrito 2 days ago |
hackmack10 2 days ago |
I'd highly advise people don't do this.
demeyer1 2 days ago |
WHAT IT DOES
OSS/MIT Harness that helps agentic tasks run for up to 4 days using without performance degradation. Designed to work really well in native, conversational voice mode. Does a good job with knowledge work, managing computer use “leases” in a way that avoids conflicts across sub agents.. or deploying an entire AWS infrastructure pattern from zero and launching 100 different VM images.
HOW IT DOES IT
Uses a canonical event ledger, heartbeat (for persistence by low cost orchestration), extends foundation memory to encrypted disk storage, and manages its own scheduling system (easier to switch to another platform).
Installs as a project, so very easily. Zero config. No special app, access needed.
Accompanying repos have the skills to disable approvals inherent to the foundation models (use with caution, not advised - separate repo under parent).
BENCHMARKS
Currently top of AssistantBench Leaderboard; and, benchmarked at the top of OS World 2.0, the hardest knowledge work computer use benchmark I could find, using a model that is one generation behind. All benchmarks in repos with cryptographic seals.
Entirely free, nothing to sell - it’s been a game changer for me, so I’m just putting it out there.
Hoping to find others also working on pushing this particular dimension of harnesses forward.
CHECK IT OUT
shrikant 2 days ago |
Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made a small couple of tweaks to get a summary of my own workflow.
FWIW, this is what I modified it to:
Help me share how I work with AI with my teammates.
Use our existing conversations and relevant local tools within my permissions to discover my agents, harnesses, skills, connections and working practices. Keep secrets, raw configuration and private project details out of the draft. Explain how my tools work together and develop a concrete workflow where the evidence supports it, rather than listing installed software. Draft from what you know without a questionnaire; ask one short question only if an essential gap prevents a useful draft. If local inspection is unavailable, use our conversation without claiming otherwise. Save a private draft, show me the exact preview, and wait for my explicit approval before publishing.
OtherShrezzing 2 days ago |
skinnychef 1 day ago |
query="$*"
base="Respond like Dr. House, do not hold back the profanities; "
I also have an even shorter alias for '?' using fabric that answers right in the same terminal, that I learned from Mischa Vandenburg: echo "$*" | fabric --model gemini-2.5-flash --pattern ask_ai
that one I use my own API key so it costs some small amount per use.fenaer 2 days ago |
RIMR 2 days ago |
All of the smartest, most effective people I know don't have X accounts anymore on ethical grounds, and don't miss it. If a data source specifically excludes the kinds of people I respect most, that data source is all but useless to me.
garethsprice 2 days ago |
Interesting to see how many people are spinning up custom workflows and factory-type patterns that run alongside AI coding tools (myself included).
Would love to see this collated into a regular survey to pick out trends. And an RSS/Atom feed or API so I can have an agent watch it :D
selicos 2 days ago |
Strix HALO 128gb - Framework mainboard in a custom SFF PC. Just moved from Ubuntu to Fedora 44. Using: LM Studio (primary), Lemonade, not yet got into vLLM and llama.cpp directyly after moving to Fedora. Running Gemma e4b, Gemma 4 26b a4b IT, Qen 3.6 35b a3b, and Qwen 3.8 27B. I want to get Qwen 3.8 Next or similar large models working but have to dedicate the system to that vs running services and smaller models for them.
Subwave is all I'm actively running against the local LLMs, but I have vscode connected through a few extensions and chat tools (I've added LM Studio to Copilot Chat but it likes to use cloud models and burn tokens sometimes). I've also set up pi, Openhands, and a few other tools but haven't had a project to work on with them.
I built an app to track and move PC parts I own between systems, partially to build a better LLM server. The next hardware goal is adding a 3060 12gb for inference, or what can be run on that vs in system memory on the Strix Halo. That will need a dock or small PCIe extension cable.
My employer has us using Copilot a lot, and it works well enough if you are efficient or set up already. I do infra not development and local models are seemingly enough for most asks like automation scripting.
realjohng 2 days ago |
tha_hnrain 2 days ago |
Besides, are our brains so fr rooted that we cannot read and comprehend anymore? Not even a (sloppy) AI-generated description?
petesergeant 2 days ago |
An agent sandbox: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/byre -- a truly gigantic amount of thought and effort has gone into it. It's really focused on developer experience. I have used it all day every day for really quite a while. It's a low-magic wrapper over Docker / Podman. I would encourage you to ask your agent to code-review it!
An agent-to-agent message board: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/dogpark -- this is much less mature, but a good amount of thought has gone into the design, so if that's something you need, please check it out.
agambrahma 2 days ago |
river_otter 2 days ago |
nowittyusername 2 days ago |
For skills I make my own, but most important is the custom setup i have. Voice is how I use all of my agents. I have an extremely well optimized voice setup that i custom built so I can talk to my agents and also hear them. The voice stack itself is very low latency and high quality. asr (parakeet v3), tts (omnivoice) take no more then 400-450 ms total as far as latency budget is concerned, rest is on the agents actual decode speed. IMO this setup is crucial for all antigenic work, i can express myself a lot better with speech and also give a lot more context and nuance with voice, i rarely type. I still look at the terminal window because my agent knows to keep the technical details in text form versus barfing them at my voice channel, plus terminal gives me lots of other important data about the agents direction and what hes doing, nothing custom here though. I cant emphesise how important voice is though, it has to be practiced to really understand.
As the models got better I now trust them with longer and longer tasks though I still don't use /goal feature as it has never worked out well for me. Theres no need for micromanagement any more but you still need to be there to steer the ship somewhat. BTW, codex cli compaction is garbage so I made my own custom implementation that works a lot better and allows the thread to be used indefinitely without issues. I strongly suggest everyone makes a new thread after extensive use if you havent made your own implementation.
Theres about a billion other things I could get in to like subagents, cohort groups, orchestration layers, etc... But this is a good start imo.
sanex 2 days ago |
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niccl 2 days ago |
And if there were a dimension of day-job v personal use, I'd be even happier
Does anyone know if such a thing exists
twKrash 2 days ago |
As a fallback I have qwen3.8 27B and deepseek-flash
VCFundedGenYer 2 days ago |
I do this for a lot of things actually. If the bot can't see/read something, take the content and dump it to a file, then have the bot read that.
Gets around a lot of red tape of asking for approval for "integrations" or when companies are snippy.
johnsmith1840 2 days ago |
Only layer beyond this I want is the permission scoping, stronger sandboxing per session and centralized control. I have not seen a clean product around this though where I own the compute.
ig0r0 2 days ago |
paul7986 2 days ago |
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saadn92 2 days ago |
katspaugh 2 days ago |
Here’s my setup: https://mysetup.ai/u/katspaugh
Mostly vanilla Claude but inside a VM.
LJGNYC 2 days ago |
patabyte 2 days ago |
Thank you for putting this together!
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jmkni 2 days ago |
Cool project!
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alp82 2 days ago |
I'm a reasonably heavy AI user, and have some custom skills/MCP servers I'd share, but there is no way in hell I'm connecting to some arbitrary MCP server and connecting my Github account to it. Noppppeeeee.