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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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-09/cognition-agent-memory-repo/ 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-09/pocketty/ 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z

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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-09/etchv/ 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z

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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-09/arachne/ 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-09/sierra-fleming-1/ 2026-10-09T16:08:36Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

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.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/gemini-4-argon/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September. Google says it delivers frontier performance in software engineering, knowledge work and cyber defence, with an output limit of one million tokens that it calls industry leading. It was the most viewed launch post we read this week, and its Hacker News thread drew 1,702 points.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/karpathy-tips/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Andrej Karpathy suggested four ways to make a model's output easier to take in, each better than the last: plain controlled English (ASD-STE100), diagrams, web pages, and custom explainer videos. Within days, builders turned it into agent skills; one of them is in our diamonds below.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/clodyssey/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

@anabology says they gave Claude another 12 hours to outdo an earlier video, and woke up to The Clodyssey, a film of just over three minutes that the SlopHits chart lists among AI music videos. A third film from the same account, Macrohard: Windows XP, followed on 2 October.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/mistral-large-4/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Mistral launched Mistral Large 4 on 6 October and describes it as natively multimodal, with 1T parameters of which 49B are active, available by API the same day. Mistral says the open weights follow at the end of October. It was the highest scoring story in our Hacker News search for model stories this week.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/backburner/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Plug an iPhone into a Mac with a 10 Gb/s USB-C cable and, its README says, the phone runs the last 24 layers of Qwen3.8-27B, so the Mac reads prompts faster and holds more context. The README says it was tested on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro with an iPhone 17 Pro Max and a 16 Pro Max, on the author's own fork of llama.cpp.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/framefields/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

framefields, launched as gitframes and renamed on 6 October, describes itself as one npm package for compositing, motion graphics and 3D that a coding agent drives by writing TypeScript. Its README says it renders on the GPU through WebGPU, with no headless browser in the loop, and that it is in beta.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/answer-me-with-html/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Nine hours and twenty minutes after Karpathy's post above, a skill appeared that, its README says, answers hard questions with a one page HTML file: the model writes a short Markdown draft and a command line tool that ships with the skill does the layout and the diagrams.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/mortiflix/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Mortiflix describes itself as a harness in which Claude, on your own Claude Code login or API key, makes a motion design video stage by stage: brief, script, style frames, animatic, build, final. Its README says the session stops at every stage for your approval, and you can pin a note to a spot in a frame or a moment in the video.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/leviathan/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Leviathan, its README says, is a single binary that turns records (JSONL, CSV, SQLite, or a database's command line output) into a ranked full text index: an agent asks in plain words and gets a few short, cited results instead of grepping raw history. Written in Rust, Apache 2.0.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/motionmaxxing/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

motionmaxxing is an agent skill that, its README says, makes launch films, product promos and brand stings. The README describes six checks, G0 to G5, and 12 measured eases that the agent applies before it renders with Chrome and ffmpeg. An early release, Apache 2.0.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/hermes-gadget/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

Hermes Gadget, its README says, is firmware for ESP32 boards and the Raspberry Pi, a Linux client and a desktop simulator for talking to Nous Research's Hermes Agent: hold a button, ask, hear the answer. The README says the device can offer its LEDs and sensors to the agent as tools, and asks for your permission on its own screen.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/persian-motion-director/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

A Claude skill for motion design with correct Persian typography. Its README names two ways generated motion fails, slideshow pacing and broken Persian (letters split apart, dots clipped), offers eight techniques, from one moving camera to dots that land last, and says each sketch runs both in a browser and in Remotion.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/pi-pod/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

pi pod, its README says, runs sessions of the pi coding agent in sandboxes on a server you run yourself, driven from a terminal or from its iOS and Android apps, with sign in through Zitadel and no passwords stored on the server. A hosted version is coming and not available yet.

https://sourcemap.news/story/2026-10-07/bashcut/ 2026-10-07T16:38:58Z 2026-10-17T17:12:20Z

BashCut describes itself as a native macOS video editor with a Claude Code or Codex terminal docked beside the timeline. Its README says an agent can do everything the interface does, every agent edit lands in the history and can be undone, and it runs on the subscription you already pay for. MIT licence, under active development.