Free on GitHub: manage agents, 11Labs alternative, incredible design & more transcript

You're going to have a way for all your agents to work beautifully together for free. I'm going to show you a repo that will make anything you design look better. And I'll demo it for you. And while everyone else is paying for 11 Lab for Voice, you're going to get voices that are so beautiful, so accurate, and so free. All that and all the top repos of the week. I got links below. Let's get into it. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. >> All right, Adam.

The top trending repo for the week is Paperclip. It's got 95,000 plus stars. This is where your agents get an org chart to work together, an ability to give each other tasks and for you and other team me team members to give them tasks. And I got a surprise for you. We got the creator Dota here. Hey, Dota. >> Hello. >> Thanks for having me. >> Thanks, dude. This has been out for a long time. Why is it suddenly popping off right now?

What's going on? Well, I I think people uh one way one reason it's popping off is we just did a video with Network Chuck uh which has been very popular which people like quite a lot. Yeah. Um but you know we've been growing quite a lot since before then. So I think really it resonates with people just because everyone has too many agents, there's too many skills. You're trying to do too much work at once and people just really want a way to uh keep it organized.

And I still need to run my own Mac Mini to run this. >> No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Just for context. Okay. So, the idea behind Paperclip is really like you can use any model, any harness, any agent at any time. Um, it gives you like an organizational structure for your tasks. So, it's almost like a task manager and an org chart for your agents along with like a lot of permissions to like keep it them organized. So, no, you you can run it um on your local machine.

Um, but you can also run it Well, we have like a cloud service that's coming up that you can wait list for. Um, yeah, but you can run on any machine you want. You don't have to have a Mac Mini. You could run it on your local box. I do that, too. >> If I run it on my local machine, can it take advantage of my subscriptions instead of paying the API rates to run all these agents? >> Yep, that's right. It'll use your subscriptions on your local machine.

If you want to host it on like a like a a thirdparty hosting, you can do that. Um, and then also even in our cloud when we open it up, you can use your subscriptions. I >> Is there one like killer feature that you feel like this has that a lot of other similar tools don't have? >> Um, like Okay. I So, one of the things about Paperclip is it has a lot of permissions that you would need for multiplayer in the cloud. So, for example, we have a new set of connections.

And when you think about it, like if I connect, if you and I are using the same instance and we're sharing agents, but then I connect my Gmail, like can you create a task that reads my Gmail? If you're my boss, maybe, but if we're just co-workers, maybe not. And like paperclipip deals with those kinds of intric intricacies that you need for multiplayer agentic work, you know, uh like the the the another thing with paperclipip is that when you just talk in um it's task based when you just talk in codeex or cloud code, you're just you've got a big long session and you're working through things and maybe you have different tabs.

Paperclipip is specifically designed around like I assign tasks. Is that task done? Yes or no? and you're like giving your agents work so you can organize it into projects like you you'll basically find that you can organize like more work you can hold more work in your head when you use it over time >> here I've got this >> so we'll set up a task and assign it to Dumbledore >> just to say hey why don't you talk to Ron test Ron make sure he works so we'll set up our task and go and within moments watch what happens here boom Dumbledore assigns a task to Ron and that right there is our first moment where we talk to an agent and then an agent talk to another agent That's one of the beauties of it.

All right, Dota. Congratulations. And of course, I'm going to have a link to this so people can see the video and to the repo directly below this video. Thanks, Dota. >> Thank you. >> Next repo for the week. Hindsight. It's an AI memory that remembers you across your sessions. We keep seeing these constantly trending. I don't know what to make of this one that it just suddenly took off. Now, in the back of my head is people saying maybe they've bought stars, maybe there's something going on.

I like to think that nothing is nefarious here. I actually think GitHub does a pretty good job of screening out like people who are spamming it, but I don't understand what makes this different or what is this? >> Yeah. Yeah. It's it's interesting. You know, as as I was scrolling through and and reading all the information about this, the thing that stuck out to me is that this is actually brought to you like by a real business.

A lot of the memory systems we see are very complicated and sometimes it's hard to tell what's the difference between this one and this one. And the problem is if you build an agent or if you build your routines around a memory system that doesn't get updated as new models come out, >> you're going to fall behind and and you're going to have to switch. This one is is actually being built and put out there by a business.

And I don't have any problem with people making money. I love when people are making money because it means they're going to support the product. They're going to keep pushing out updates. It's going to stay up to date. And maybe sometimes you say, "Well, I'd love the hosted version of this. I'm done running it locally. I just want this thing to run and maybe I want to share it with my team." Well, awesome. Now there's a cloud service that sits there and handles it.

So, you know, different for different people, right? Some people are going to prefer the open source one that they can fiddle with. And this is open source, too, but but there's going to be a different angle because it's a company running it. And for me, I would prefer to have the reliability and the maintainability of of the company backing something like this. >> Number three for the week is Voice Studio 51,000 stars.

This is for people who want to clone their voices but not pay a service like uh 11 Labs to host it. And it actually has a Mac app, a Windows app. It is fairly easy to install even a Linux uh even a Linux app. And you can see here that it's super easy to use. Um, >> Andrew, remind me. Is is this like a wrapper for tools like 11 Labs or is this going to use local models that I can run for free? >> From what I remember, it's actually a collection of both.

But let's just double check that I didn't that I didn't get that wrong. >> Oh, yeah. I see there's some acceleration and Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it looks like it is both. I I I appreciate that also because sometimes I build a lot of devices, hardware devices, and I build voices into them, but I want to play around a little bit first. I want to try this. I want to generate it again. I want to hear this. I want to hear 10 different voices.

And maybe I'd only want to switch to the highest quality one that I'm going to have to pay a lot for after I've already kind of figured out what it is I I want to generate. So, what I appreciate about these local models is is you get to explore without the concern that, you know, you're going to spend a bunch of credit on on 11 Labs. >> Yeah. And actually, this is not one that's meant to be used with 11 Labs. It's an alternative to 11 Labs that's supposed to be easy to put on your computer.

And last time we did hit play and show examples of it. I'm going to have links to this below so that you all can see it. I'm glad to see that it's doing better. We've seen people use it really well. Uh by the way, Zapier is a sponsor. I've got to tell you something about the way that Zapier MCP has been helping me. It allows me to bring in tools even that don't have MCP connections in. It allows me to have a backup in case a connection breaks.

It also allows me to now going beyond the Zapier MCP to what's new from Zapier atom is the ability to take all these things that I'm doing regularly with my agents and lately I love Grockbot and instead of saying I want you as my agent to go and do this every five minutes or every hour and then it potentially breaks and it burns through my tokens and I ended up a couple of weeks ago running through my my cap on uh Grockbot and having to pay for use which then I it was astronomical how much it was.

Actually, let's not let's not bow it out of proportion. instead of 140 bucks a month, I had to for the for the two days pay $265 extra for that. So, it's still off for two days. >> And I realized when I asked my agent, what are you doing that's wasting all these tokens? I'm not doing that much. It said, I'm doing all these routines and if I hand it off to Zapier, Zapier will do it with code, so it's way cheaper. It'll fill my cheap subscription and then the AI can be handled by the stuff that needs AI can be handled by by my agent.

All right, go to zapier.com/mcp. Sign up, get all access to all those tools. And when you don't need AI, they will handle things inexpensively for you. Next, AI engineering from scratch. This is a free course and I want to show what this looks like. And people are actually on Hackard News not not loving this. What do you make of this? >> Yeah, you know, it it it strikes me as very AI generated. That's not to say, Andrew, that it's not valuable, that it's not creative, that it's not deep, but but something I don't like about AI generated courses is is they take longer to go through.

There's a lot of fluff. But what I like like this chart you're walking through right now, it reminds me of Dolingo. >> It's like, oh, if I want to learn up to what level, right? Like you can you can sort of just keep following the steps, keep following the steps, and and you get off the train whenever you want. You could come back whenever you want, and you get as deep as you want to. I I think I appreciate that about about this system because a lot of people looking to get into AI engineering, they just don't know where to start and everything is constantly changing.

Every six months there's a whole new topic to learn. Well, I bet that just gets added to the bottom of this list as the new things continue to come out. So, I I I appreciate the structure and the thought that that's gone into it, even if the materials themselves are are a little bit of AI generated. >> Yeah, that was the big thing. AI engineering from scratch. I don't trust a vibe generated course to be great yet. Docs written by AI are hyper verbose.

Next, the fifth most popular for the week is uh Anthropics Financial Services. 38,000 stars on GitHub. It's 10 agents. Can I actually call this agents? It's always called agents, but really I think it's just 10 skill files, right? That will make your agent into like a financial consultant at the level apparently of a Wall Street uh firm. That's the idea here, right? >> Yeah. Well, it's a it's a it's a plugin. I I I would refer to it as an agent.

I I think that's fine. Just because your agent doesn't have its own server or its own Mac Mini or whatever doesn't mean it's not an agent. You're you're building this project around a set of tools, MCP connections, instructions, skills. I would call that an agent. And I think, you know, we've looked at this a couple times and and trying to decide who is this for? And it's really for financial professionals, right? Like there's a lot of these deep skill packs out there that are packaged often into plugins that are for professionals that help them have superpowers.

Some of this if you if you want to dabble that's fine. You could get into it. Although I bet you could just ask Claude and and and get help. But a lot of these things like wow like this is something I do that I really care. I don't even know like a a comparable company analysis. I've never run a comp analysis before. But there are people out there that have and they would benefit from learning the AI in this way because they're probably not out there building AI products like like you or me or other people.

So this is going to be their good intro to AI. >> You know what? Here's Kenji. He he talked about how if his boss asks him for a comp analysis, here's how we would do it using this >> here. Let's open it up here in Excel. And you can product inside of Excel. It's it's got the actual date and you can see it's doing best practices like the numbers that are hardcoded those are going to be in blue whereas the calculations are in black where these red dots is basically a note.

So it's telling us exactly where each of these values came from. >> Okay, pretty decent. I I kind of like it. >> Next uh number six. This is super popular. NextJS 143 stars this week. They had eight security fixes in eight days and as a result this took off. What is Nex.js? We we literally talked about it before we got started and I still don't know how [laughter] I could explain it and I'm sure >> you know the good news Andrew is if you don't know and don't want to know you don't have to learn.

But what next.js is it's this software framework for JavaScript that allows you to combine front-end JavaScript. So that's the JavaScript that's running in the browser, the stuff that downloads onto, you know, onto your computer when you're running to to have interaction in an app with the backend JavaScript. That's the server side. So what's running on the server while I'm generating images, I'm loading data, I'm doing things that are maybe private that I don't want to do on a on a user's computer.

And it lets you combine both of those into one seamless repository, but with a really tight framework of how do these two talk to each other and how do we streamline the communication back and forth and could we generate content on the server which is faster versus on the client. And what you see here is these these error or not errors these bugs security fixes. Uh this is something that almost everyone's packages are are going to identify automatically. uh npm will identify some of these automatically which is the package manager that that most of us are using to download this stuff.

Also, I'm sure GitHub has sent you an email about it if you're affected by this and and need to and and even your agent is going to see that stuff and just automatically update it for you. So, for most folks, you just don't have to care. But if you want to learn a little bit more, it's worth going to read like read about one of the CVEes and and understand like what are the risks of some of these software packages when you use them and and don't really understand them.

Most of us don't understand them. Most people aren't going to look at all the details, but you should understand like what is the actual the the security fix that happened here? What what were you at risk of? >> Should I give this to my agent and say, did anything I build get affected by this? Do I need to make any changes? That's actually a great point. You would point it at this. You would you would ask that and and it and that's actually a good prompt to just run every so often.

Hey, is there anything that that's out ofd that that should be updated that might have security risks? When you look at the when you look at the the identifiers for that all are saying CVE- some number, there's a huge repository of all that information that's public and your agent has access to it. And so you just say, are there any like security vulnerabilities that I should be aware of that that need to be fixed? your agent will go, it'll research, it'll it'll fix it for you.

It's an easy prop to run. >> Okay, this one I'm really excited to talk about because it's so visual. So, impeccable basically is supposed to give your coding agent a designer's eye so it doesn't look just like Claude code, cursor, and everything else that we're all that we're all creating. I asked um my agent, which happens to be Claude, to where is that? Where is it? Here. I said take there it is. take this whole presentation and use this design skill on it.

And here's what it looks like. I kind of like it. >> Very cool. >> Right. I like that it has its own little style here that it's it's come up with new versions of my slides, but kept the ideas together. I think these are so useful to just take the URL of the repo, give it to your agent, and say, "Create a version of what you just made for me with this and and then get what it looks like. Yeah, I I really like these, Andrew.

I think they all kind of have their own style, just like Claude Code has its own style. Uh, you know, this thing will probably also have its own style. I'd be curious, are there any screenshots or anything in here of the different styles that >> they will >> that it has created? >> Yeah. Where is it? Um, here. Let's take a look at they have a whole gallery up on their site and there's a way of asking for what you want.

Yeah, it's really nice. I spec I picked one of their design styles and I said make it over in that style and that's why I did it. And you can see a whole gallery here with that. >> So what's usually generated what's >> what's usually >> what's usually missing from a clawed codegenerated design is some sort of human input of what style makes sense to you? What style do you like? And when you just accept what comes out, you end up with the same average everybody else has.

I love galleries like this where you as a human with your own aesthetic can scroll through and say, "Oo, I like that. I don't like that." And just the act of picking one of these and then having a copy and paste prompt that you can drop in to adopt that style or even customize that style. I think that's a really powerful step that most people are skipping when they're deploying their their vibecoded app. >> I really like this.

Um, all right, number eight. This is 51,000 stars. Turn any app into a command line. Your agent can drive. What's the benefit of having a command line? >> Well, you know, I think there's a lot of apps that you and I use that don't have an easy way for our agents to interact with them. I booked a hotel yesterday and the agent helped me research it but couldn't quite help me actually book it. Or you could put Grockbot or something in charge, but I don't know.

How long do you think it would take Grockbot to uh book an Uber for you? Is this a is this a two-minute task? >> You know what? I do it almost every day and it takes a good 15 minutes. All it has to do is click around a few things. And I prefer a do it than me, but still the 15 minutes sometimes is just a agonizing. >> It's Yeah, it's insane. And and so, you know, the reason why that's that's the case is because Uber doesn't have a great interface for your AI to interact with it.

It's trying to navigate the app or the website or whatever. And so a CLI, a command line interface, is a very computer way to interact with software. An AI is very good at interacting with the command line. And so if if the app doesn't have a command line interface, this is a way to either build one or use one. They have a small marketplace of a bunch of these already built out and you can just use one that already exists. >> So, but this is not for Uber.

I checked to see if I can use it for Uber and I was told I can't. This is for like desktop apps I think. And then for something like Uber I would use Printing Press. And here you can see Printing Press can create a C CLI for Uber, right? >> Yeah. The it it it seems like the difference between these two is that printing press is maybe the more open version where you can do anything, but it could also be very custom to you and no one else has to see versus the the other one does seem to be more around packaging around code that already exists that's already open source that's already available and like Uber doesn't have an SDK that you can run locally on your computer and so then I my understanding is it can't wrap around that whereas printing press is is happy to help you figure out how do I interact with this app in a more visual way or even reverse engineer the app. >> Number nine for the week is Claude Skills.

Your AI assistant is going to get 388 jobspecific playbooks and >> more skills. [laughter] >> You know what? Hey, you people who've been asking for more skills, are you happy that we're getting more skills in here or are you starting to think, okay, I've got enough of them. Let me know. Let me say, you know, I'm the negative skill guy, but let me tell you the thing I like about this one. I know that's a surprising sentence.

I like this concept of personas here. >> You know, when I see a skill pack and there's 200 skills, it frustrates me because we basically taken this super powerful generalist AI and we've given it a bunch of generalist skills, a bunch among a bunch of industries, most of which I don't care about. What I actually want is I want a partner. I want an agent. I want something that understands one specific workflow. And a persona is exactly that.

It's talking about how do I tie together a collection of skills so that I can show up like a partner to you. So I really appreciate that about this package and that would be a you know I would come to this one first when I was looking for you know some kind of team teammate that I didn't want to hire for. I actually just would like AI to do it. So, this is like the productivity persona. And in here, I've got my email persona.

It's going to help me deal with email. I've got one for deep work. It'll help me work with that. Okay, I get it. I'll go on now to the next one. Um, and the final one for the week, 32,000 stars, is Claude Code templates. You kit out Claude Code with one install command, and it gives you all these different things that it could use. And the best way to see it is to actually go to their website, which is right here. and you can start to see the skills, the commands, the settings that it comes with.

Any thoughts on this one? >> Yeah, you know, I like these. I I've talked about this. You know, the the if you're going to download plugins, please be careful. That's that's the biggest thing. Plugins have code in them. They they run on your computer. They have full permission. Your AI can control them. And if you're downloading plugins that aren't trusted, please be careful at what's running on your computer. I when I download plugins always want to download them from some marketplace where I can see who has put it together.

What is the traction? Is this a popular thing? This one has 229,000 stars. It's very unlikely that this is a malicious plugin that that's, you know, going to that's going to hurt you or steal your information versus just some random one that you find on the internet. So, I always like someone that has curated a bunch of these, put them together, and and help me validate because I don't have a lot of time to screw around and try a bunch of different ones either.

I just want to know what's the best one. Why should I use it? How do I search for it? >> And by the way, thanks to the audience, Afan is coming in to record with us. I'll have the interview up with him. He is he's incredibly popular and we'll have them on. All right, that closes it out, but I want to just tell you two things that I've done this week and I'd love to hear two things that you've done with AI or code this week that has been especially exciting.

The first one for me is I am using codeex to book Uber food for me and Uber rides for me. I'm in Mexico. I don't read the local menus very well. And I realize, you know what? If I just tell it, here's how I like to eat. Here's the type of stuff I want. And all I do is I say, "What's for lunch?" And it knows and it gives me a few options and I say, "Okay, book this one." There'll be someone at my door for literally $1.78 with my food here within 20 minutes.

I love that I could just ask my agent, in this case I use uh uh chatgpt or codeex to do it. Um and the second thing, Adam, that has been really popular for me this week is starting to integrate these agents into our team more deeply. So Grockbot now allows us to add team members directly into Slack. Not like the wonky way that I did it for you to show you what it looks like. Um >> spot unfortunat or dot unfortunately from chat GPT does a terrible job of doing it, but I've got it in a little bit.

Hyper Agent is getting more and more like a team member in our Slack. And so that's been especially exciting for me this week. How about for you? [snorts] >> Well, there's two things. One is uh we're looking for new office space and I've toured a bunch of places and I'm looking at at these floor plans, but I'm trying to bring it to life for my team. And what I figured out is as I walk around these offices, I can take pictures in different locations or I can take a video of the whole area.

And because my phone records the GPS location, the direction I was pointing, the orientation, I can superimpose those images on a map. So I can give you, if I give you the floor plan and tell you where it is. You can click on a dot and see the direction I was pointing. Be like, "Oh, I could look that way." I didn't need to bring a fancy 360°ree camera. I didn't have to do anything. I didn't even know it had all that metadata, but the agent found it when I asked the agent, "How should I impose these on the map?" It's like, "Well, let me tell you.

I've actually got the direction you were reporting. Do you just want me to drop them all on? I can give you a screenshot that that you can pull up here because it's a it's a pretty powerful like Oh, wow. I think every realer should should be doing this. I I can't believe they're not. It's super cool. And also, I can't believe you guys are moving. You just picked out such a beautiful office that I love working out of.

All right, the next one will be even more beautiful, Andrew. Don't worry. >> I guess even bigger. I've been hearing about how many people are now working at the office at Gateway X. We've got a lot to update everyone on and especially me. for now. If you like these 10 repos, I got 10 others that you need to see. Adam and I will take you through them right here.