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Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.
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JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
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Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.
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💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development
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NVIDIA Cosmos is an open platform of world models, datasets, and tools that enables developers to build Physical AI for robots, autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and more.
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Frameworks for building games across multiple platforms.
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GitClear
GitClear helps every member of an engineering team understand their team's code and velocity with the clarity of a seasoned Technical Manager.
We offer more than 20 reports to ensure high-quality code is delivered to customers at industry-leading speed:
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An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
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Talk to any LLM with hands-free voice interaction, voice interruption, and Live2D taking face running locally across platforms
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A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
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Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services
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Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
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Windows companion suite for OpenClaw - System Tray app, Shared library, Node, and PowerToys Command Palette extension
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A modern platform for visual, flexible, and extensible graph-based investigations. For cybersecurity analysts and investigators.
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AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary
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Cloud 66 for Rails
Cloud 66 for Rails allows you to build, manage and maintain your Rails applications that can be deployed to any cloud provider or to your own server. Cloud 66 for Rails helps you scale your database with master-slave replication, without having to make any configuration changes. You can add back-ups, load balancers and de-commission servers with a single click. Popular Rails and Rack frameworks available.