https://github.com/mozilla-ai/otari/pull/348

https://github.com/njbrake/laguna-otari-bridge

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What if you could do the same thing to your workforce of Claude Code agents? Aka use Claude Code to observe and distill how to make a different AI model/harness work nearly as well, so that then you don't need Claude anymore? If AI is doing it to humans in the workforce, why can't we do the same thing to AI... I love Claude but it's always good to have a backup, in case, say, the subscription plan goes away and you're expected to pay for the API usage rates.

If you'd like to follow along, discuss, or contribute, this is the repo where the work is going. I'm working on this using the DeepSeek V4 Flash repo but it would be interesting to see how the process works if trying to teach a smaller LLM.

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So I built settl: it's a Settlers of Catan style game that runs completely as a TUI, and uses a local LLM (mozilla.ai llamafile!) as the AI agent.

Built in Rust, using the cool new 1B and 8B Bonsai Models by PrismML that my colleague Davide helped turn into a llamafile for dead simple usage of LLMs in the app.

Install: brew install --cask mozilla-ai/tap/settl Source: https://github.com/mozilla-ai/settl Docs: https://mozilla-ai.github.io/settl/

Enjoy and let me know if you got feature requests! I'd like to add the ability to argue with agents to try to get them to accept your trades, and would also consider some sort of framework for faster iteration on agent abilities (maybe using Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch)

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My buddy runs a general contracting business. He's good at what he does, but he spends a lot of evenings on a laptop chasing invoices and scheduling follow-ups instead of hanging outwith his family and friends. Most tools being built right now weren't built primarily for him.

Clawbolt is our attempt at a purpose-built AI assistant for people in the trades. It lives in messaging apps they already use, connects to things like QuickBooks and Google Calendar, and is proactive rather than waiting to be asked, just like OpenClaw. Following up on unpaid invoices, flagging material cost changes, that kind of thing. Open source core at github.com/mozilla-ai/clawbolt if you'd like to check it out and give it a star.

We're early and looking for input from people who actually work in the trades or run small trade businesses. Would love to hear what resonates and what we're missing.

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The sounds are sort of an easter egg: you can enable/disable them from the settings page (hit 's' in the TUI). You probably are experiencing them being random because the default is to select "random" sounds (see the settings TUI screen). I don't use the sounds much so I'm waiting for a contributor to suggest an improvement.

So stoked to mark the agent-of-empires (aoe) tool as version 1.0. We've had 30 different direct contributors to the codebase as well as many other indirect contributors via Github issues and various comments.

It's a tool to make it as easy as possible to push lots of coding agents forwards at once. Powered by sandboxing, git worktrees, tmux, but all those things are managed for you so you don't need to sweat about the details.

We also have a youtube channel for tutorials for those that like to learn via visual/audio. https://www.youtube.com/@agent-of-empires

Thank you to the community for all the amazing feature ideas and bug fixes, and I hope you enjoy what I think is now a very good, stable, and feature filled tool. It's my daily driver for all my Claude Code agents and hope it helps others too.

`brew install aoe`

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So I went ahead and built it into an actual hosted platform. Core is still fully usable and OSS but now I offer a hosted option.

I'M OPENING IT UP VIA AN INVITE CODE. Here's one for the first 100 HN users so my LLM token budget doesn't immediately go to zero haha:

PORCH-7F95BB

tl;dr backstory. I'm a guitarist who loves playing songs on my porch over the summer, and I wanted a platform that let me:

1. Easily access a library of chord charts i like to play and render cleanly on my phone so I can use that to read the music 2. AI assisted rewriting so that I can make songs more personal or quickly sketch up a song. A year ago LLMs struggled but Claude Sonnet and Opus 4.6 are EXCELLENT. I was shocked at how good they are

What's changed since my last post: - You can just sign up and use it now via Google OAuth or email magic link - Rewrites stream back in real-time - Personal song library to keep your versions - The OSS repo is still there: https://github.com/njbrake/porchsongs

Happy to talk about the tech or whatever else. Building a truly working public OSS core and a private 'hosted' codebase was a very education process that I learned a lot from building.

Building and connecting stripe, GCP, nano.tech, resend, sentry, etc was a lot of fun (and also a lot of work )

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One of my best friends runs his own general contracting business. He's extremely talented and wants to spend his time working on drywall, building staircases, and listening to Mumford and Sons while throwing paint onto a ceiling. But you know what gets in the way of that wonderful lifestyle that all us software engineers dream about?

ADMINISTRATION.

He thought running his own business would be 85% show up and do the work, but turns out a large chunk of the time is spent talking to clients to schedule time to get an estimate, working with home management companies to explain the details of an invoice, and generally just manage all of the information that he's gathering on a single day.

Luckily for the world, AI is here to help with this. Tech like openclaw has really opened our eyes to the possibilities, and tech to help out small businesses like these are now within reach.

That's why I'm excited to share out an initial idea we're trying out: clawbolt. It's a python based project that takes inspiration from the main features that make openclaw so powerful: SOUL.md, heartbeat proactive communication, memory management, and communication over channels like WhatsApp and iMessage. With clawbolt, we're working on integrating our latest work with any-llm and any-guardrail, to help make clawbolt secure and to ease onboarding.

This is all new, so this is a call for ideas, usage, and bug reports. Most of us that try to get plumbers/roofers/handymen to come help us with a home project know how overwhelmed they are with admin work when they're a small team. I'm hoping that we can make clawbolt into something that helps enable these people to focus on doing what they love and not on all the paperwork.

Let me know what you think! Docs at https://mozilla-ai.github.io/clawbolt/

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I thought “Man it would be great if I could use an LLM to help me just slightly tweak the songs to make it more relevant for me without it messing up the rhythm or melody”.

A year ago I tried something like this and the LLMs rewrites were real cheesy, but I did it now with Claude Opus 4.6 and oh boy let me tell you, Opus is an insanely good lyricist.

I played for my wife the song Opus and I wrote based off of a Luke Combs song, and it made her cry. There was something special about writing a song that has personal meaning, but getting a boost from AI to make it sound not-cheesy.

So thus was born porchsongs: an application that connects you with a LLM to help you rewrite song lyrics as much as you like, and then stores the charts in a library so you can play them and keep iterating on them if you'd like

Step 1: Find the chord chart or lyrics etc of the song you like via ultimateguitar.com Step 2: Chat with the LLM to workshop the song lyrics until you’re happy with it Step 3: Play the songs and enjoy the personalized lyrics

Right now you deploy it as a docker service yourself, I have a simple auth set up but it's meant for you to self host, not really a distributed application for multiple people to be creating accounts etc.

I hope you get as much joy from this as I already have.

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