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apiiro.com
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Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub

Apiiro reports finding 2,539 credentials matching its secret-classification rules in 1,994 public GitHub repositories, including values saved after Claude Code users approved commands with 'Yes, and don't ask again.' The research explains how settings, history and agent transcripts can retain credentials and recommends rotation, repository exclusions and command-aware scanning.

Why I recommend it: Apiiro did not use or test the credentials, so 'real secret' does not mean confirmed valid. Anthropic's Head of Claude Code said the team would prototype mitigations, including basic secret scanning.

#coding-agents#secret-management#github-security#claude-code
apiiro.comAdded Nov 9, 20260 opens
github.com
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Coding & Developer Tools

DeepSeek dsh-superagent prototype

Published
2026-10-31

DeepSeek's open-source research prototype of a proactive coding agent for a single GitHub repository, packaged for DeepSeek Harness. DeepSeek labels it reference research code, not an official or production-ready product.

#ai-agents#coding-agents#open-source#github
github.comAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
github.com
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AI & Assistive Tools

Hallmark (Nutlope)

An open-source design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex that aims to steer AI coding agents away from generic-looking interface designs.

#open-source#design#coding-agents#github
github.comAdded Oct 27, 20260 opens
open-design.ai
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AI & Assistive Tools

OpenDesign

An open-source design workspace for building prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, and HTML video with your own coding agent.

#open-source#design#prototyping#coding-agents
open-design.aiAdded Oct 27, 20260 opens
github.com
Free
Tool
AI Tools & Open Source

REA on GitHub

The MIT-licensed open-source repository for REA, a tool that lets coding agents reverse engineer software, from app behavior down to native binaries.

#REA#reverse engineering#open source#coding agents
github.comAdded Oct 20, 20260 opens
jovidecroock.com
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AI & Assistive Tools

Humans approve intent, machines prove conformance — gittifacts

Jovi De Croock describes an open-source agent-native Git platform organized around human-approved plans, evidence-based review lanes, merge queues and reversible releases. The article discusses prototype limitations and proposed development practices rather than independently verified production results.

#coding agents#code review#Git
jovidecroock.comAdded Oct 19, 20260 opens
sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app
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Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

Sphinx — Code Understanding Checks

Free, open-source Git hook that pauses protected-branch pushes to ask questions about what the changed code does. Supports plain Git and several coding-agent workflows. The software is free; use of an external model endpoint may incur separate costs.

#code review#coding agents#open source
sphinx-six-theta.vercel.appAdded Oct 19, 20260 opens
explainx.ai
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Technology & Ethics

Antigravity Gets Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5: Who Gets It (explainx.ai)

Explains that Google Antigravity now lists Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 for non-trial Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and that Claude 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b are removed on November 2, with who is affected and what to do.

#AI#models#coding-agents
explainx.aiAdded Oct 4, 20260 opens
github.com
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AI Tool
AI Tools & Open Source

Visual Explainer (Agent Skill)

An open-source agent skill on GitHub by nicobailon that generates rich HTML pages or slide decks for diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits, data tables, and project recaps.

#agent-skills#open-source#coding-agents#github
github.comAdded Oct 2, 20260 opens
simonwillison.net
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Blog
AI Models & Benchmarks

2026 in LLMs (So Far) — Simon Willison

Simon Willison's annotated slides and notes from his closing keynote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America (Sept. 2026): a chronological tour of the year's LLM developments, starting with the November 2025 models that made coding agents start working.

#llm#coding-agents#ai-models#talk
simonwillison.netAdded Oct 2, 20260 opens
reflection.ai
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Reflection AI

Site of Reflection AI, an AI company building open superintelligent systems and coding agents.

#ai#ai-lab#coding-agents#open-models
reflection.aiAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
mouse.dev
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tool
Coding & Developer Tools

Mouse — Coding Agent for Your Phone

A coding agent that runs your code project in the cloud from your phone and brings back changes for you to review.

Why I recommend it: Company product page. Check what the free plan covers; giving any agent access to your code carries risk.

#coding agents#ai tools#mobile
mouse.devAdded Sep 26, 20260 opens
Medium
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Article
AI & Assistive Tools

I Ran Gemma 4 as a Local Model in Codex CLI

A hands-on write-up of wiring Google's open Gemma 4 model into the Codex command-line coding agent so it runs locally instead of calling a hosted API.

From the site: I wanted to know whether Gemma 4 could replace a cloud model for my day-to-day agentic coding. Not in theory, in practice. I use Codex CLI…

Why I recommend it: Useful if you want to try coding agents without paying per token — local models are slower, but free and private.

#ai#ai ethics#codex#coding-agents#developer-tools#gemma#llm#local-models#open-models#privacy#tutorial
MediumAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
Kilo
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AI Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

Kilo — open source AI coding agent

A free, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the command line and the cloud, with support for local models and your own API keys at no markup.

From the site: Kilo is the open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and Cloud. Access 500+ models, bring your own keys at zero markup, and keep code private with local models.

Why I recommend it: Open source and free to install — you only pay a model provider if you choose a hosted one.

#ai#coding-agents#open-source#developer-tools#vs-code#cli#local-models#free-tools#automation#programming
KiloAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens