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  1. codex

    Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

    Does that version of Codex still read sensitive data on your file system without even asking? Just curious.

    https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

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  3. goose

    an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

  4. claude-desktop-bin

    Unofficial Linux packages for Claude Desktop AI assistant with automated updates.

  5. microtask

    experiments with remote microtask work

    I remember looking trying to build something like this 6 years ago[0]. There are some interesting APIs for injecting click/keystroke events directly into Cocoa, and other APIs for reading framebuffers for apps that aren't in the foreground.

    In particular there was some prior art that I found for doing it from the OpenQwaQ project, which was a GPLv2 3D virtual world project in Squeak/Smalltalk started by Alan Kay[1] back in 2011.

    If I recall correctly, it worked well for native apps, but didn't work well for Chromium/Electron apps because they would use an API for grabbing the global mouse position rather than reading coordinates from events.

    [0]: https://github.com/antimatter15/microtask/blob/master/cocoa/...

  6. openqwaq

    Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/openqwaq

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