Episode 661: Sink Your Claws In

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The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Preferring Local OSS LLMs Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B Open Models have crossed a threshold Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API. hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM. Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction. LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust. OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community. Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP. These risks include goal hijacking, tool musiuse, identity abuse, supply chain risks, code execution, memory poisoning, insecure communications, cascading failures, human-agent trust exploitation, and rogue agents. This new Agent Governance Toolkit is available for Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go, and .NET. googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills. Tunarr API Reference Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile) Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules. Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

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