Issue #683  (AI Tools, Git/CLI, Mobile)08/20/26

 

AI Tools, LLMs, etc.

CodePilot — A multi-model AI agent desktop client that lets you connect any AI provider, extend with MCP and skills, and control from your phone.

ctx-wire — A tool built with Go that provides a context layer for AI coding agents, to runs commands, compresses output with declarative filters, scrub secrets, etc.

IAXT — A quiet menubar app that records what Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Codex, and Copilot actually do on your Mac, showing commands you run, files changed, packages installed, git operations, etc.

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Silo — A native agent IDE for developers juggling coding agents across many projects, with every workspace alive at once, and ability to switch instantly.

Reasonix — A DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal, engineered around prefix-cache stability.

agentmemory — A persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks, with support for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more.

Dev Browser — A browser automation tool that offers a Claude Skill that lets AI agents and developers control browsers with sandboxed JavaScript scripts.

AI Agents From Scratch — A resource that teaches you to build AI agents locally without frameworks, so you can understand what happens under the hood before using production frameworks.

Git, GitHub & CLI Tools

just-bash — A sandboxed bash interpreter for AI agents built with pure TypeScript and an in-memory filesystem.

Lore — A next-generation open source version control system that's designed for unprecedented scalability of both data and teams and optimized for project, including games and entertainment.

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git-knife — A clean desktop GUI for editing Git commit metadata directly, including message, author date, committer date, and author name and email.

HonorBox — An open source Gumroad alternative that lets you turn a GitHub repo into an unattended store, so you can sell digital products with just Stripe and GitHub.

cmux — A native, open source, macOS terminal built on Ghostty, featuring Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a CLI for programmability.

Instagit — An MCP server that gives coding agents instant insight into any Git repository, with no guessing and no hallucinations.

rpg — A modern Postgres terminal written in Rust that's psql-compatible and features built-in DBA diagnostics and an AI assistant.

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React Native & Mobile Tools

Nano Icons — A high-performance icon rendering solution for React Native and Expo that you point at a folder of SVGs and get blazing-fast, native icon rendering with near-zero overhead.

React Native Bottom Sheet — A bottom sheet component for React Native that features inline and modal sheet components, customizable surface, dynamic sizing out-of-the-box, position tracking, and more.

Nitro Vision — On-device subject cutouts, image labels, and OCR for React Native, built with Nitro Modules.

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FACETPACK — The missing build toolkit for React Native, providing Rust-powered 36x faster transforms, better errors, smart fallbacks, Doctor CLI for diagnosing and fixing errors, and more.

Mobile View — A Chrome extension that lets you test mobile and responsive designs with 5 views simultaneously using synchronized scrolling, and support for iPhone, Android, and tablet views.

react-native-data-detector — Cross-platform text data detection for React Native that uses NSDataDetector on iOS and ML Kit Entity Extraction on Android to detect phone numbers, URLs, emails, dates, and addresses, and returning structured results to JavaScript.

react-native-runtimes — A pair of libraries that allow you to run heavy React Native UI and business logic in isolated Hermes runtimes without freezing your main JS thread.

react-native-morph-view — A React Native view that smoothly morphs one image into another, allowing you to flip a single toggle prop and the two shapes blend together with a native shader for a fluid, gooey transition.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds