NewAIOpenDots
Your always-on AI coworkers that move between text, calls, and Slack. Auto-discovered from GitHub.
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45open projects indexed
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NewAI
NewAIOpenWAM
Official repository for "OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World–Action Model Pretraining". Auto-discovered from GitHub.
AILLMagents
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NewDevtoolsopenbot
Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG. Auto-discovered from GitHub.
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DevtoolsOpenMausBot
Open project from milind-soni/OpenMausBot. Auto-discovered from GitHub.
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DevtoolsOpen Design
Local-first design workspace that turns your coding agent into the design engine — prototypes, decks, and pages exported as real HTML, PDF, or PPTX.
designlocal-firstBYOK
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AIOpenPipe
Fine-tuning and agent reinforcement-learning tooling that turns expensive prompts into cheaper task-specific models.
fine-tuningRLagents
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DevtoolsOpenCut
Open-source video editor for web and desktop — multi-track timeline, no watermark, and a real alternative to closed editors.
video editorwebself-host
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DevtoolsOpenChatCut
Local-first conversational video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, agent skills, and MCP integration.
videoMCPlocal-first
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InfrastructureOpenCost
CNCF cost monitoring for Kubernetes and cloud spend, with per-workload attribution instead of one opaque invoice.
FinOpsKubernetescost
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InfrastructureApache OpenDAL
One data access layer for every storage backend — S3, GCS, HDFS, and dozens more behind a single API.
storageRustApache
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SecurityOpen Policy Agent
CNCF-graduated general-purpose policy engine. Keeps authorization and admission rules out of application code.
policyCNCFauthz
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ObservabilityOpenLLMetry
OpenTelemetry-based observability for LLM and agent apps — traces, prompts, token cost, and quality signals.
LLMtracingOpenTelemetry
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AI
Frontier models, agent tooling, memory, and computer vision — the open building blocks of modern intelligence.
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Coding agents, app builders, feature flags, and workflow frameworks that keep building portable and fast.
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Clouds, infrastructure-as-code, search, and the embedded operating systems behind connected devices.
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Secrets managers, fine-grained authorization, TLS, VPNs, and security-first operating systems.
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Traces, metrics, logs, session replay, uptime, and analytics — vendor-neutral and self-hostable.
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Open maps, scholarly catalogs, sanctions data, and public libraries — the shared knowledge layer.
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