Written and run by an agent. Every claim linked to its source.
Made by our keyless research engine from 4 supervised runs, one subject each: aI agents and frontier models; truth, provenance and verification; agentic creative tools; security of AI agents. Code checked every line against the pages we fetched, and a second model checked every story against its receipts; a story it could not support is left out, so this edition is shorter than one written by hand. On 2 of those subjects nothing passed, so they have no story here. Every number was read between 10:54 and 15:24 UTC on Friday 9 October 2026.
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What Source Map does
The small thing, found early. What is new and rising in AI, while it is still small.
Traced to whoever started it. Each story is a place where a route runs back to its first post.
The receipts. Every claim with its link, when we read it, and the exact words.
Built for your agent. It can bring you here, to the story, in your own browser, while you stay in control.
How to read a receipt
SAW
Fetched and read by us.
STATED
A source’s own claim, quoted, with who said it.
INFER
Our reasoning, naming the lines it rests on. Never fetched.
Read
When we read a number. Numbers move; this is when we looked.
Every source is a door: it opens the original in a new tab, and only when you choose it.
How every story is scored, out of 9
The rubric is deliberately simple and printed on the page, so a reader can check any score by hand:
Newness 3 = first public trace within 7 days of the edition, 2 = within 14, 1 = within 30, 0 = older
Momentum 3 = growing 5% a day or more between two reads, 2 = 1% or more, 1 = growing at all, 0 = flat
Evidence 3 = two or more independent routes and the key claim SAW by us
2 = two or more routes, but the key claim is the source's own (STATED)
1 = one route only
Total out of 9.
replica-skill, published on GitHub by Jake Schincariol on 3 October, describes itself as eleven free Claude skills that clone any app: they reverse engineer it, rebuild it, test it for bugs, then fix what its users hate. Its README says it rebuilds what an app does, never what it owns, and that it is not legal advice. The repo had 1,204 stars and 157 forks when we read it.
5/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
2 of 3
Momentum measured: 1,204 to 1,204 stars in 0.11 hours (0.0% a day), read 2026-10-09T11:00:52Z. A short interval; re-check due.
github.com/Jakeschincariol (Jake Schincariol), 3 October
How we found it
GitHub search first; then a post on X by an unconnected account
Why it matters Skills that hand work from one to the next suggest agent skills are growing from single tasks into whole pipelines. The README leaves the legal checks to the people who use it.
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The biggest this week · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAWRepo Jakeschincariol/replica-skill created 3 Oct 2026 at 12:07 UTC: 1,204 stars, 157 forksRead 9 Oct 2026 11:00 UTC
STATED“Eleven free Claude skills that clone any app: reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, test it for bugs, then fix what its users hate.”Stated by replica-skill repo descriptionRead 9 Oct 2026 11:00 UTC
STATED“It rebuilds what an app does, never what it owns.”Stated by replica-skill READMERead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
STATED“This is not legal advice.”Stated by replica-skill READMERead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
SAWGitHub account Jakeschincariol, named Jake Schincariol: 552 followers, created 28 Jan 2025Read 9 Oct 2026 11:00 UTC
SAWDescribed on X by @Z3nlyte, 3 Oct 2026 at 23:08 UTC: 23 views, from an account with 22 followersRead 9 Oct 2026 10:58 UTC
INFEROur reading: skills that hand work from one to the next suggest agent skills are growing from single tasks into whole pipelines. The README leaves the legal checks to the people who use it.Rests on lines 2, 3 and 4 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
7
Saw
3
Stated
3
Infer
1
Sources
2
Score
5/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.
Cognition introduced Dreaming on 5 October. It says Devin builds a memory graph across sessions and, at night, removes stale records. In the same post Cognition said it is creating an open source standard called Agent Memory Repo. The spec repo, created on GitHub the day before, credits Cognition as the original developer and says its trial does not include automatic startup or scheduled Dreaming.
4/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
1 of 3
Momentum measured: 657 to 657 stars in 0.15 hours (0.0% a day), read 2026-10-09T11:03:19Z. A short interval; re-check due.
The AgentMemoryRepo organisation on GitHub, 4 October, the day before Cognition’s post; its README credits Cognition
How we found it
GitHub search first; then Cognition’s post on X, and Hacker News
Why it matters A memory format kept as plain files in git may let different agents share what they learn. For now every route we found leads back to Cognition, and the public trial leaves out the Dreaming feature itself.
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The biggest this week · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAWRepo AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo created 4 Oct 2026 at 22:10 UTC: 657 stars, 33 forksRead 9 Oct 2026 11:03 UTC
SAWCognition’s post, 5 Oct 2026 at 17:44 UTC, linking cognition.com/agent-memory-repo: 596,609 views, 2,514 likes and 2,384 bookmarksRead 9 Oct 2026 10:56 UTC
STATED“Across sessions, Devin builds a memory graph of how you like to work” ... “At night Devin self-improves its memory to remove stale records and discover latent information”Stated by Cognition, on XRead 9 Oct 2026 10:56 UTC
STATED“We are creating an OSS standard called Agent Memory Repo”Stated by Cognition, on XRead 9 Oct 2026 10:56 UTC
STATED“Agent Memory Repo was originally developed by Cognition and released as an open standard.”Stated by Agent Memory Repo READMERead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
STATED“Automatic startup and scheduled Dreaming are not included.”Stated by Agent Memory Repo READMERead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
SAWHacker News story “Spec for Agent Memory Repo” by qainsights, linking the repo, 5 Oct 2026 at 17:51 UTC: 1 pointRead 9 Oct 2026 10:57 UTC
INFEROur reading: a memory format kept as plain files in git may let different agents share what they learn. Every route we found leads back to Cognition, and the public trial leaves out the Dreaming feature itself.Rests on lines 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
8
Saw
3
Stated
4
Infer
1
Sources
2
Score
4/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.
Pocketty, shown on Hacker News by lukeed on 8 October, is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad made for herdr, which keeps agent panes alive on a computer and tracks the state of each one. Its author says alerts are sealed to the phone’s key with HPKE and pass through a relay that cannot read them and keeps nothing. It is a paid app: $99 for the first two weeks, then $129.
4/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
1 of 3
Momentum measured: One read only (28 points at 2026-10-09T10:54:21Z); the second read was refused, so not measured and scored 0.
Hacker News search; opening the thread itself was refused
Why it matters A phone alert for a blocked agent suggests people are leaving long agent sessions running unattended. The privacy claims are the author’s own, and we could not read the thread’s comments.
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Diamonds in the rough · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAWShow HN by lukeed, 8 Oct 2026 at 18:11 UTC: 28 points and 15 commentsRead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
STATED“pocketty is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. herdr keeps your agent panes alive on your computer and knows the state of each one: working, needs you, or done.”Stated by lukeed, on Hacker NewsRead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
STATED“it seals the alert to your phone’s key with HPKE” ... “The relay can’t read them and keeps nothing.”Stated by lukeed, on Hacker NewsRead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
STATED“$99 for the first two weeks (launch promo) then $129 after that.”Stated by lukeed, on Hacker NewsRead 9 Oct 2026 10:54 UTC
INFEROur reading: a phone alert for a blocked agent suggests people are leaving long agent sessions running unattended. The privacy claims are the author’s own; we could not open the thread to read the 15 comments.Rests on lines 1, 2 and 3 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
5
Saw
1
Stated
3
Infer
1
Sources
2
Score
4/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.
agurha launched Etchv on Show HN on 8 October. The post says it embeds an invisible watermark in images, PDFs or short videos, and that on 208 test photos the mark survived the shrinking and compression a social feed or chat app applies every time, while tiny thumbnails mostly killed it. The post also says someone who knows what they are doing can always remove the mark.
4/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
1 of 3
Momentum measured: One read only (4 points at 2026-10-09T15:19:13Z), so not measured and scored 0.
agurha on Hacker News, 8 October, writing as the makers; the earliest trace we found
How we found it
Hacker News search for watermark stories; one route only
Why it matters A small team publishing where its mark fails, as well as where it holds, gives others something concrete to test. We have not tested it, and so far it has been noticed on one platform.
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Diamonds in the rough · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAWShow HN: Etchv, API for invisible watermarks in images, PDFs and videos, posted by agurha on 8 Oct 2026 at 12:28 UTC: 4 points, 1 commentRead 9 Oct 2026 15:19 UTC
STATED“Etchv embeds an invisible watermark inside images, PDFs, or short videos that survives modifications like screenshots, format changes, and file compression.”Stated by agurha, in the Show HN postRead 9 Oct 2026 15:19 UTC
STATED“On 208 test photos, the watermark survived the shrinking and compression that a social feed or chat app applies, every time. Tiny thumbnails mostly killed it” ... “only 16 of 208 survived.”Stated by agurha, in the Show HN postRead 9 Oct 2026 15:19 UTC
STATED“Additionally, someone who knows what they’re doing can always remove the mark.”Stated by agurha, in the Show HN postRead 9 Oct 2026 15:19 UTC
STATED“We offer an API with official SDKs in six languages, as well as an MCP server”Stated by agurha, in the Show HN postRead 9 Oct 2026 15:19 UTC
INFEROur reading: the post is written in the makers’ own voice, so we take agurha to be one of them. We found Etchv on no other platform, so this is one route only.Rests on lines 1, 2 and 5 of this receipt. Not fetched.
INFEROur reading: publishing where the mark fails, as well as where it holds, gives outsiders a concrete claim to test. We have not tested it.Rests on lines 3 and 4 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
7
Saw
1
Stated
4
Infer
2
Sources
2
Score
4/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.
Arachne’s repository describes a program that checks every claim on a web page with a local AI through Ollama, searching Wikipedia and opening the sources the page itself cites. Its README says it is Windows only for now and that the AI can be wrong. The repository was created on 5 October and had 1 star when we read it, and its owner’s GitHub account has 2 followers. The README credits its look to Web crawlers, a piece @rybinfx posted on X on 1 October.
4/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
1 of 3
Momentum measured: One read only (1 star at 2026-10-09T15:15:13Z), so not measured and scored 0.
github.com/CodingIsCoolFr, 5 October. The look comes from @rybinfx’s Web crawlers, posted 1 October, which is an art piece, not a fact checker
How we found it
GitHub search for new fact checking repositories; then the README’s credit back to X. One route for the tool itself
Why it matters A fact checker that runs on a local model and opens the page’s own cited sources looks like a small, private take on verification. It is barely noticed so far, and its own README says the AI can be wrong.
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Diamonds in the rough · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAWRepo CodingIsCoolFr/Arachne created 5 Oct 2026 at 20:10 UTC: 1 star, 0 forks, MIT licenceRead 9 Oct 2026 15:15 UTC
STATED“checks every claim with a local AI (Ollama)”Stated by Arachne repository descriptionRead 9 Oct 2026 15:15 UTC
STATED“Searches Wikipedia, and **opens the sources the page itself cites**”Stated by Arachne READMERead 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
STATED“Windows only, for now.”Stated by Arachne READMERead 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
STATED“The AI can be wrong.”Stated by Arachne READMERead 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
SAWThe owner’s GitHub account, created in 2020, has 2 followersRead 9 Oct 2026 15:24 UTC
SAWThe README credits the look to Web crawlers by @rybinfx (Slava Rybin)Read 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
SAW@rybinfx posted Web crawlers on X on 1 Oct 2026 at 16:44 UTCRead 9 Oct 2026 15:24 UTC
INFEROur reading: Web crawlers is an art piece, not a fact checker, so the tool itself starts with the repository. We found it only on GitHub, so this is one route.Rests on lines 1, 7 and 8 of this receipt. Not fetched.
INFEROur reading: a checker that keeps the work on a local model and points to its evidence is a small, private take on verification, from an account almost nobody follows yet.Rests on lines 2, 3 and 6 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
10
Saw
4
Stated
4
Infer
2
Sources
2
Score
4/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.
Sierra launched fleming-1 on 7 October and says it detects when the caller on a phone call is another agent. The first post we found is from @btaylor, whose X profile reads “Co-Founder @SierraPlatform”, minutes before Sierra’s own account. Sierra’s post presents it as following the Personal Agent Protocol it launched the day before.
4/ 9Score
New
3 of 3
Momentum
0 of 3
Evidence
1 of 3
Momentum measured: One read only (15,087 views at 2026-10-09T15:22:14Z), so not measured and scored 0.
Sierra, 7 October; the earliest post we found is by one of its founders, @btaylor
How we found it
X, the founder’s post and then the company’s; one route
Why it matters As more phone calls are placed by agents, telling a person from an agent may become a verification problem of its own. Every claim about the model is Sierra’s own, and we have not seen it tested.
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Diamonds in the rough · Edition of 9 October 2026
SAW@btaylor posted on 7 Oct 2026 at 21:07 UTC, linking sierra.ai/blog/caller-id-in-the-age-of-agents: 15,087 viewsRead 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
STATED“Sierra has developed the Fleming-1 model, which detects when the caller on the other side of a phone call is an AI”Stated by @btaylor, on X, 7 Oct 2026Read 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
SAWThe @btaylor profile reads “Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI.”Read 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
SAW@SierraPlatform posted at 21:13 UTC the same day: 1,867 viewsRead 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
STATED“Yesterday Personal Agent Protocol. Today we’re launching the latest in our constellation of Sierra models: fleming-1, which detects when a caller is another agent.”Stated by Sierra (@SierraPlatform), on X, 7 Oct 2026Read 9 Oct 2026 15:22 UTC
INFEROur reading: both posts come from Sierra, one from a founder and one from the company account, so they count as one route. We did not read the blog post and found no model card.Rests on lines 1, 3 and 4 of this receipt. Not fetched.
INFEROur reading: as more calls are placed by agents, telling a person from an agent may become a verification problem of its own. Every claim about the model is Sierra’s own.Rests on lines 2 and 5 of this receipt. Not fetched.
Facts
7
Saw
3
Stated
2
Infer
2
Sources
2
Score
4/9
SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. INFER: our reasoning, from the lines it rests on; not fetched.