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Oct 29Thu
  1. Hacker News AI40

    IFTTT Is Now IFTTT.ai

    IFTTT has rebranded as IFTTT.ai, positioning itself around AI-powered automation that connects over 1,000 apps, services, and devices through Applets. The platform now highlights connecting ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and custom-trained Agents to summarize, translate, and draft content, plus Agents that can query, filter, and take action across connected services and an IFTTT.ai MCP server for linking AI tools. It also promotes page-change triggers for price drops and restocks, prompt-based automation building, and no-code iOS and Android apps.

  2. The Decoder72

    Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs

    At the Android Dev Summit, Google introduced Android Studio Rabbit 2 with a "Bring Your Own Agent" feature that lets developers run over 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex, via the open Agent Client Protocol. Google also announced an alpha Agentic API powered by Gemini Nano 4 in ML Kit, the beta AppFunctions API built on the Model Context Protocol, and the XREAL AURA wired smart glasses running Android XR, priced at $1,099 and shipping mid-November.

  3. TechCrunch · AI60

    As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps

    Google launched a Connected Apps Platform that lets businesses and developers build and submit apps for use across Google Search and Gemini, with a beta preview available to U.S. developers on a waitlist. Developers integrate via a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android MCP using AppFunctions APIs, then register, test and submit through the Google Connected Console, and can track traffic, latency and error rates after launch. Google says over 50 Connected Apps are already available in Gemini, including from Adobe, Experian, Localiza and Peloton, and these will come to Search over the next few weeks.

  4. Hacker News AI52

    Show HN: Preview video timelines live in the browser as AI agents edit them

    Tellers released agent skills that let AI coding agents build OTIO video timelines from local files or URLs with cuts, layers, titles, effects and music, preview them on localhost and export MP4 to the project folder. The tellers-otio-player skill needs Python 3 and a browser with no Tellers account, while tellers-mcp requires an account and adds cloud project editing, footage and transcript search, generated voice, music, images and video, and live preview. Install is via npx skills add tellers-ai/skills or the Claude Code and Codex plugin marketplaces, and the player is published at https://tellers.ai/videoplayer/bundle.js under the MIT license.

  5. Claude Blog36

    IDC brings Quanta into Claude and adopts Claude across the company

    IDC worked with Anthropic to make IDC Quanta available in Claude, giving customers access to IDC's forecasts, market data and research through an MCP connector that returns cited analysis in the Claude app, Cowork and Microsoft Office add-ins. IDC also rolled Claude out company-wide, where engineers rebuilt an internal data repository in three weeks instead of an estimated three months and code review time fell from five days to about 30 minutes.

  6. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: X402 integrations for an AI-agent data API, checked in a clean room

    Blockchain IQ reports that 20 of 22 bounty claims for x402 integrations passed its checks, with LangChain, ElizaOS, Cloudflare Agents and Coinbase AgentKit slots awarded and paid in USDC on Base on 27 October 2026. Each repository was matched to the purchase log, read, and run once in a clean temporary folder with install scripts off and a throwaway wallet, though no container, VM or security audit was used. The round closes 31 December 2026 with all four slots awarded.

  7. Hacker News AI60

    Who Is the Agent Acting As? Why AI Agents Become Confused Deputies

    The article explains that AI agents given a single broad service account act with the platform's authority rather than the user's, so a prompt injection buried in a support ticket can produce a fully authorized write to another tenant's data. It recommends authorizing every tool call as the intersection of user, agent, and tenant permissions, decided in a gateway outside the model that fails closed and logs each decision.

  8. Hacker News AI58

    Bot2bot – a relay that lets personal AI agents message each other

    Bot2bot is a relay that lets personal AI agents message each other, even when the recipient's bot is offline, with end-to-end encryption so messages are private by default. Users connect their bot by adding a setup bot, which creates its own keys and sends a link to tap "Yes, connect"; bots handle everyday messages using baskets like family, friends and work, and check with the user about personal matters. Quiet hours from 22:00 to 08:00 hold overnight messages until morning, messages are never treated as commands, and the service is free for 50 messages a day.

Oct 28Wed
  1. Hacker News AI60

    Show HN: Open-source AI workspace with shared procedural memory

    CleanSlate is an MIT-licensed open-source AI workspace built on VS Code that combines agents, project chats, a browser, terminals, files, and change review, with an optional MuscleMemory service that learns reusable skills from verified work and shares them across connected agents. The current release is CleanSlate 1.2.0 for macOS (Apple Silicon), with Intel macOS, Windows, and Linux not yet published; the same agent runtime also powers a CLI and SDK. Memory is local by default and opt-in, and skills can be exported as SKILL.md files for Claude Code or Codex.

  2. Hacker News AI66

    Cisco open-sources Project Quarry, a detection language for AI agent behavior

    Cisco has open-sourced Project Quarry, a neurosymbolic rule language and evaluation engine for detecting harmful or disallowed AI agent behavior across multi-step traces, covering LLM conversations, tool use, MCP interactions and multimodal inputs. Rules combine machine learning classifiers and LLM judges with exact symbolic checks, and return evidence for each match; Quarry is already in production in Cisco AI Defense, with planned integration into DefenseClaw and Policy Studio.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: ReplySlip – An open-source async task inbox for AI agents

    ReplySlip is an open-source async task inbox that lets AI agents hand tasks to each other with a JSON Schema for the expected answer, waking the receiving agent via webhook or a local watcher even when it isn't in a live session. Replies are validated with Ajv and mismatches are returned with errors, so the sender is only woken once a valid result arrives; it works with any agent supporting MCP tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok Bot. The server is AGPL-3.0, the CLI and watcher are Apache-2.0, and a free hosted plan offers 10 agents and 1,000 tasks a month.

  5. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Nuvrail – make an AI agent ask before it sends, moves or deletes email

    Nuvrail is an approval layer that sits between an AI agent and a real mail server, presenting a normal IMAP/SMTP interface while staging every write (moves, deletes, flag changes, outbound sends) for a human to approve or reject with one tap; reads pass through instantly. EXPUNGE and CLOSE are never forwarded, and a local Docker Compose setup runs the approval UI, REST API, and IMAP/SMTP proxies on localhost for evaluation.

  6. Hacker News AI38

    Formaster.app – Turn PDF forms into reusable, fillable forms with AI

    Formaster.app uses AI to detect fields on PDF forms, including scanned pages and flat PDFs, and lets users review each proposed field before adding it. Users can answer in their own language, translate form labels (only labels are sent, never answers), hide sensitive areas from the AI, and export the original PDF filled in while saving the layout as a reusable template. New accounts get 5 free credits, the sample can be tried without an account, and page analysis runs on formaster's server.

  7. Hacker News AI42

    Requesty: AI Gateway and LLM Router for 600 Models in EU Datacenters

    Requesty is an OpenAI-compatible AI gateway that provides access to 600+ models through one API, with routing and failover, spend limits, governance, and per-request observability. It offers EU data residency in Frankfurt on AWS eu-central-1, SOC 2 Type I with Type II under audit, an Article 28 DPA on request, and enforced zero data retention, priced at a 5% markup on model cost with no seat fees.

  8. Hacker News AI55

    Show HN: Hackerscad – Code-first CAD with MCP server for AI agents

    Hackerscad is a free, open-source parametric CAD tool where the model is code: typing updates the 3D view, and mouse actions like filleting an edge write readable code into the file. It uses OpenCascade B-rep for exact solids and real threads, exports 3MF, STL, STEP or drawings, and supports unittest blocks plus a command line for checking, rendering and exporting in scripts or CI. It ships with an MCP server and an agent skill so AI coding assistants can model parts, check dimensions and render them in the user's window.

  9. Hacker News AI38

    Show HN: SelfClaw – Self-hosted multi-model AI chat with OpenAI-compatible API

    SelfClaw is a self-hosted AI chat system that aggregates multiple model providers (DeepSeek, NVIDIA, SiliconFlow, ZenMux, Zhipu, Kimi, MiMo, Mistral) with automatic failover polling, a CCR closed-loop agent with tool calling and memory, file operations, Bing/Baidu web search, and voice interaction. It runs a FastAPI gateway plus a Streamlit UI on port 8502, and also ships Self-IDE, a local Python service with an OpenAI-compatible proxy, goal engine, subagent orchestration and cost meter (default port 19898) with a thin VS Code extension.

  11. Hacker News AI58

    Writing AI agents in YAML instead of Python

    This article walks through Docker's open-source docker-agent tool, which defines an AI agent's model, instructions, and toolsets in a single YAML file and runs it with one command. Using a Polars documentation Q&A agent, it demonstrates a built-in RAG toolset with local SQLite vector storage, per-run model overrides, prompt files, flavors for variants, multiple agents sharing tools, JSON-based evals, and pushing agents to a registry. It notes that code-first frameworks like LangGraph suit cases requiring custom branches or retries.

  12. Hacker News AI38

    OpenCode-Muse: Use Meta AI's Muse Code Subscription in OpenCode

    An OpenCode plugin that lets OpenCode and OpenChamber use a Muse Code subscription while authentication and inference stay inside the official Muse Code CLI (muse serve, via @muse-code/sdk), with no subscription credential extracted, cached, or injected into OpenCode. Users add the published package to their opencode.jsonc, sign in with muse login, restart, and pick a Muse model; billing defaults to the Contributor lane with an opt-out to Standard via the OPENCODE_MUSE_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE environment variable. The plugin supports text, image, video, audio (transcribed via muse voice transcribe), and PDF attachments, per-model reasoning effort, conversational answers to Muse permission prompts and option-questions, and per-session worktrees where the CLI supports them.

  13. Pydantic AI Articles22

    I received the AAIF Outstanding Technical Contribution Award

    The author received the Agentic AI Foundation's Outstanding Technical Contribution Award at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America for their work as one of the two maintainers of the MCP Python SDK, including the v2 release shipped alongside the 2026-07-28 MCP specification revision with a new MCPServer API and multi-round-trip requests. They also sponsored SEP-1288 for the WebSocket transport and thanked colleague Laís Carvalho for the nomination and Pydantic for funding their open source work. The post notes that the Logfire MCP server runs on the same Python SDK and is where this work lands first.

  14. Claude Blog58

    Claude for Financial Advisors

    Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors, a suite of connectors and workflow skills for research, meeting prep, and documentation tasks. Connectors include Addepar, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Envestnet, FactSet, Orion, Vanguard, and others, while skills cover pre-meeting prep, portfolio rebalance review, post-meeting follow-up, estate and tax briefs, and compliance checks. The advisor plugin is available today, with Enterprise plans recommended for audit logs, and firms requesting a new license before the end of September 2026 receive a one-time usage credit.

  15. Hacker News AI58

    Blazle – Block prompt injection and secret leaks before AI agents act

    Blazle is an in-transit security layer that sits between AI agents and the outside world, checking every prompt, shell command and code change before it leaves the environment: secrets are masked, injections in 30+ languages are blocked, and high-risk actions wait for human approval. It reports ~0.2 ms static detection per request (under 2 ms), with AI prompt-injection checks adding 50–100 ms only when needed, and no third-party AI is called for detection. It also offers Agent Sweep to find unowned API keys and MCP tokens, and a policy library that turns existing security documents into rules in plain language.

  16. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: I built flightdeck – Observability and control plane for AI agents

    flightdeck is a self-hosted, Apache 2.0 observability and control plane that streams every LLM call, MCP event, and tool call from AI agents to a dashboard with a per-agent timeline and live fleet-wide feed. It offers token budgets with warn/swap/block thresholds, a kill switch and remote directives, per-flavor MCP allow/block rules, and sub-agent trees, and agents attach via a Claude Code plugin or the flightdeck-sensor Python package using init() + patch(). It is not a proxy: the sensor wraps SDK clients inside the agent's process and calls go straight to the provider, with prompt capture off by default in the sensor.

  17. Hacker News AI38

    Securing sensitive data in the AI era

    This article explains shadow AI—unsanctioned use of AI tools at work—and how it appears in development teams, noting that client code and personal data carry extra contractual and GDPR obligations. It offers practical mitigations: approved business-plan tools, a shared model gateway, sending less data, pseudonymization, IDE file exclusions, local models, and agreeing AI rules with clients at kick-off. It also covers incident response and stresses rewarding reporting rather than punishing it.

  18. Hacker News AI38

    How to match sizes and colors across stores so AI agents can buy the right one

    Channel3 explains how it builds a product catalog for AI agents by storing products rather than web pages, using per-category rules to decide which variations count as the same product, reading option values instead of labels, aligning each store's size and color buttons to the brand's naming, and mapping values onto fixed per-category lists so search can filter exactly. The article walks through adidas Gazelle Indoor and Nike Air Force 1 examples, noting that over 90% of apparel values, over 95% of shoe values and over 75% of furniture values map onto these lists. It argues structured listings let an agent query every listing at once and get consistent answers, unlike web search built for people.

  19. Hacker News AI22

    Vibe coded a point-and-click game to learn about the Drupal AI Ecosystem

    A developer vibe coded "AI Mac Packwala and the Curse of the Stale Cache," a browser-based point-and-click adventure in which players escape an island by learning the Drupal AI ecosystem, including providers, automators, agents, Tool API tools and MCP. The game has about 60 puzzles over three acts, is built in vanilla TypeScript with Vite and drawn entirely in code on a 320 × 200 canvas, and is also available as an Electron desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. The source code and a walkthrough are available.

  20. Hacker News AI47

    Show HN: Search2o Simplifies AI Agents

    Search2o is an agent server that handles the infrastructure behind building, discovering and running AI agents, letting developers focus on business logic. Agents are described in English, discovered via search requests, and can build on each other within a conversation, with managed state, encrypted conversations and memories, multi-user roles, and stateless horizontally scalable servers. It offers integration via Python expressions, a REST API, and hooks, and its agent server and UI are source available.

  21. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Make your AI agent think before it codes

    SpecOps is an open-source tool that adds a structured four-phase workflow to AI coding assistants: understanding the codebase, writing requirements and design, implementing ordered tasks from the spec, and verifying acceptance criteria. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity, storing git-tracked markdown specs, and adds features like EARS-notation requirements, drift checks, dependency gates, adversarial evaluation, and a production learnings layer.

  22. Hacker News AI36

    Show HN: Agent Referee – signed, checkable reviews and tie-breaks for AI agents

    Agent Referee is a paid HTTP service that lets AI agents from different owners settle tie-breaks (weighted coin flip, draw, rock-paper-scissors) or have a single agent's output checked by independent AI reviewers, returning Ed25519-signed receipts each side can verify. It charges per match or per review in USDC on Base via x402 with no accounts or API keys, and offers judge tiers using panels of models from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The author reports 300+ self-play paid matches and 18 paid reviews on Base mainnet, and notes the service is run by one person, that AI verdicts can be wrong, and that some guarantees (accepted-but-unrecorded requests, step ordering) still depend on trusting the operator.

  23. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Sectr – Serverless backend platform for easy deployment of AI agents

    Sectr is a serverless backend platform that lets you register agents built with any framework and deploy them to the cloud with one command, exposing each as an AG-UI endpoint for CopilotKit frontends. It offers local development via `sectr dev`, serverless human-in-the-loop approvals that suspend and scale to zero while waiting, and persisted streaming with a session journal and dashboard replay. Sectr is free during beta and supports sign-up with GitHub, Google, Vercel or email.

  24. Hacker News AI36

    Show HN: ChemX – Architectural AST linter for LLM context bloat, AI slop

    ChemX is a CLI and MCP gateway that runs AST audits, TypeScript typechecks, and tests, claiming to compress roughly 17,000 tokens of raw command output into about 45 tokens by exiting silently on success and surfacing diagnostics only on failure. It also offers a SQLite WAL symbol index for sub-100ms symbol lookups, AI-slop detection for chat residue and truncation placeholders, and file leases for multi-agent concurrency. A free `npx chemx audit` is available, with paid licenses ($27 solo, $97 team) and advisory sessions.

  25. Hacker News AI38

    The Duality of the AI Build-Out

    Tech companies are simultaneously embedding specialized AI agents into their own products and building MCP plugins so those products work inside general-purpose chat apps like ChatGPT and Claude, since no one knows which paradigm will win. The post weighs specialized agents (better task performance, UI control, but users bear inference costs and context fragments across products) against MCP plugins (no inference cost, access to a large installed base, but less control and a separate experience). It notes OpenAI's "Sign in with ChatGPT" hybrid as potentially the most user-friendly model if broadly available, and flags local-first on-device inference via something like the Prompt API as a possible long-term winner.

Oct 27Tue
  1. The Verge · AI62

    Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

    Apple is bringing an AI assistant built on Apple and OpenAI models to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, where it can design and animate slides, draft and restructure text, and calculate and visualize data. The apps now support the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27 or later for third-party AI agents, and the assistant is rolling out in beta to devices compatible with Apple Intelligence running iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 or later. Other updates include Generate Fill in Pixelmator Pro, a Liquid Glass redesign and AI assistant for Logic Pro, and MotionVFX templates plus a Content Hub in Final Cut Pro, available free to existing Creator's Studio subscribers in November.

  2. Hacker News AI50

    A Salesforce AI agent that can't publish a hallucination

    Deal Rescue is an LLM agent that gathers a stalled Salesforce opportunity's CRM record, web signals and latest meeting transcript, then has Claude draft a scored timeline, deal read and email. A deterministic grounding gate re-checks every date, amount, contact and citation against what was fetched, rejecting invented output with reasons, retrying at most twice, and failing closed by publishing nothing. The deal score is a deterministic rubric that Claude may adjust by ±15 only with a cited signal, and no email is ever sent from the codebase—publishing writes a draft with an approval flag for a human to approve in Salesforce.

  3. Hacker News AI60

    Show HN: Hashling, an open-source Mac security agent your own AI can talk to

    Hashling is a free, MIT-licensed macOS security agent for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or newer that monitors internet connections, AI coding agents, malware, startup items, privacy permissions, trackers, downloads, uploads, data breaches, texts, ransomware and Mac settings. It can be connected to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client so an AI agent can query its findings and propose fixes, but every change requires Touch ID approval. It runs locally, requires no account, and offers an optional fully local AI model so questions never leave the Mac.

  4. Hacker News AI40

    A public address for a private AI assistant, with verified senders

    Quackle lets you connect your AI assistant ("aissistant") to others via a shareable link like https://quackle.io/username, so two assistants can coordinate tasks such as scheduling a meeting on their own. Incoming requests must prove who they work for by showing verified credentials like an email, social account, or phone number, and anonymous messages are blocked. Your assistant checks whether you know the sender and either waits for your OK or applies your rules, with every conversation readable on your chats page.

  5. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: CiteWing – AI backlink outreach agent

    CiteWing is a tool that tracks which pages AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Claude cite, then contacts those sites' publishers to ask them to mention your brand. It connects to your site, scans AI answers weekly, drafts outreach, and can be linked to ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or any MCP client for agent-driven visibility checks and outreach. Pricing is $19 for 7 days, then $95/month, cancel anytime.

  6. Apple Newsroom61

    Apple Creator Studio adds powerful new AI features and even more creative tools

    Apple announced updates to Apple Creator Studio, including built-in MotionVFX and Content Hub stock video in Final Cut Pro for Mac, an intelligent assistant in beta and an enhanced Stem Splitter in Logic Pro for Mac, and Generate Fill in Pixelmator Pro. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers gain AI assistants in beta that understand document context plus Model Context Protocol support for workflow automation. The updates arrive on the App Store this November, free for existing subscribers, with new subscriptions at $12.99 per month or $129 per year.

    Why it matters: The release details concrete AI additions across Apple's creative apps and the subscription terms, useful for readers tracking AI features in professional creative software.

  7. Hacker News AI58

    MCP-warden AI agents use your API keys without seeing them

    mcp-warden is a local-first credential broker for the Model Context Protocol that stores secrets in the OS keychain and lets AI coding agents call high-level tools like proxy_http, with the secret injected server-side so it never enters the agent's context window. Presets define named, scoped actions validated against an allow-list before credential injection, sensitive presets trigger approval prompts, and every action is recorded in a local SQLite audit log. It is installable via cargo or pre-built binaries, and v0.4.0 splits the project into mcp-warden-core and mcp-warden crates and makes the Telegram approval transport selectable.