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Obsidian AI Skills by Steph Ango

Obsidian AI Skills (the `obsidian-skills` repository) is an open set of Agent Skills published by Steph Ango (kepano), Obsidian's CEO, that teach AI agents to read and write Obsidian's file formats natively instead of guessing at them. It went up in June 2026 and blew up fast; it was already past 37

Docker Agent

Docker Agent is Docker's open-source framework for running teams of specialized AI agents that delegate to each other, configured entirely in YAML and shipped as OCI artifacts. Built on the `cagent` engine; runs with `docker agent run config.yaml`.

Agentic Resource Discovery Server plugin for Obsidian

Obsidian community plugin that turns your vault into a local-first Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) publisher and Agent Registry. It scans your AI Skills, builds a rich `ai-catalog.json`, and runs a localhost server so AI agents on your machine can discover and fetch exactly the skill they need by n

Kanban Action Planner plugin for Obsidian

Plan, track, and schedule any set of notes visually, straight from a Obsidian Base. This plugin adds a Kanban board view to Bases, so your tasks, projects, content ideas, or anything else you keep as notes can move across columns instead of sitting in a flat list.

ADMX Viewer

ADMX Viewer is a small web app I built to browse, search, and configure Windows Group Policy templates without fighting the built-in tooling. You point it at a folder of ADMX files, pick a language, navigate the policies, flip the settings you care about, and export them as `.reg` files, PowerShell

GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's) flagship open-weight LLM), released as full open weights on June 16, 2026 (coding subscribers got access on June 13). It is the successor to GLM-5.1 and, at release, the leading open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The headline change is a jump from a 2

Vercel Eve

Vercel Eve is an open-source TypeScript framework for building, running, and scaling durable agents, launched in public preview on June 17, 2026. The premise: every team kept rebuilding the same plumbing (sessions, sandboxing, channels, approvals) before their agent could do anything useful. Eve pro

Odysseus (AI)

Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace that puts chat, autonomous agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model serving behind one local-first interface, with no telemetry. Python + JavaScript, AGPL-3.0-or-later.

Vercel Open Agents

Vercel Open Agents is an open-source, fork-able reference app for running coding agents that live in the cloud and keep working after you close the tab. Built on Vercel's own stack. MIT.

Ponytail (AI)

Ponytail is an open-source (MIT License) AI-agent plugin/skill that enforces minimalist code generation, "He says nothing. He writes one line. It works." It counters the tendency of coding agents to over-engineer (extra dependencies, boilerplate, building when something already exists) by injecting

Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD)

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is an open, draft specification (Apache 2.0 License) for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. It's a collaborative effort, not one vendor's project: contributors come from Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, GoDaddy and others. It answe

Code Mode MCP Pattern

Code Mode is a pattern for using MCP) tools where, instead of exposing each tool directly to the model as a callable function, you give the model a typed API (TypeScript or Python) and ask it to write code that calls those tools. The code runs in a sandbox, and only the final result comes back to th