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- 1Tool pushes coding agents toward modern web standards▼Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives
Google Chrome team member Paul Irish released a resource called modern-web-guidance, aimed at getting AI coding assistants to stop generating JavaScript and web patterns from around 2019 and instead use current browser primitives and APIs. The project, hosted on GitHub, provides guidance that developers can feed to their agents so generated code reflects modern web capabilities rather than outdated defaults.
- 2Google Chrome releases web best-practices guidance for coding agents▼GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance-src
Google's Chrome team has published a new open-source project called modern-web-guidance-src, aimed at keeping AI coding agents up to date with the latest web best practices. The TypeScript repository is quickly drawing attention on GitHub, ranking among the most engaged-with projects globally, as developers show growing interest in tooling that helps AI assistants write modern, standards-compliant web code.
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Alibaba has published open-code-review, an open-source code review tool written in Go and described as battle-tested at the company's internal scale. The tool uses a hybrid architecture combining deterministic analysis pipelines with an LLM agent, produces precise line-level comments, and ships with built-in rules for issues like null pointers, thread-safety, XSS and SQL injection. It works with both OpenAI and Anthropic models. Developers are watching it as another sign of AI-assisted code review moving into mainstream engineering workflows.
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Developer backnotprop released Plannotator, an open-source TypeScript tool described as a workspace for staying on top of AI coding agents. It lets users plan, annotate, review code, and send feedback to agents with one click, and share decisions with a team. The project is trending on GitHub as interest grows in tools for managing agent-driven development.
- 5Klad launches as a paint app coding agents can control●Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)
A new open-source tool called Klad has been released, presenting itself as a paint application that can be driven by coding agents such as AI assistants. The app is available as source-available code on GitHub, letting developers inspect and adapt it. Early discussion online is focused on how AI agents could automate creative and design workflows, not just software tasks.
- 6Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" flag tied to leaked secrets on GitHub●Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
Researchers at Apiiro report that Anthropic's Claude Code coding agent, when users click "Don't Ask Again," can write secrets like passwords and API keys directly into committed code. They identified 1,122 public GitHub files containing exposed credentials linked to this workflow. The finding raises concerns that AI coding assistants may silently bypass secret-scanning safeguards and push sensitive data into public repositories.
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Developer Julius Brussee released 'Caveman', a Go-based skill and proxy for coding agents that rewrites the model's output in stripped-down, simplified language to cut token usage by roughly 65%. The tool's promotional pitch leans on the joke 'why use many token when few token do trick'. It is circulating as a quirky but practical way to reduce costs when running AI coding assistants.
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Meta's Astryx project is drawing attention on GitHub. It is an open source design system described as fully customizable and built to be agent ready, meaning AI coding assistants can work with it directly. Developers are discussing what the release means for building interfaces with AI tooling, and the TypeScript project is gaining traction quickly.
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Google engineering leader Addy Osmani published a new open-source repository called agent-skills, offering production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. The JavaScript project is quickly gaining traction among developers, ranking among trending repositories globally as interest in tooling that makes AI assistants more reliable in real-world codebases keeps growing.
Repos
- lonewolf-im/lonewolf XMPP with teeth 🐺
- Tencent/LoopForge Self-hosted workflows for coding-agent delivery. Orchestrate CodeBuddy, Codex and Claude Code with scripts and human app
- aws/aws-emulator AWS Emulator is a local emulator of the AWS APIs.
- Dodaios/ste80-humanizer STE80 Humanizer: agent skill that removes AI tells and rewrites text 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical
- storytold/craft-anything Craft Anything: understand how any software works, and craft your own.
- alibaba/open-code-review Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipe
- JuneYaooo/rea-video Reverse-engineer any video, shot by shot: filmed, AI-generated or coded, and how to remake it. Breakdowns in the open VI
- KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop 让你的命令行 Agent 在后台自己接活、自己跟进到底;平时不烦你,遇到拿不准的事才发卡片找你拍板。
- JuliusBrussee/caveman 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking l
- backnotprop/plannotator The workspace to stay in the loop and on top of agents - shape, decide, plan, annotate, review code, share with team, an
- meta/astryx An open source design system that's fully customizable and agent ready
- ersinkoc/phonebox Turn an old Android phone into a customizable desk panel and touch control deck for Windows, Linux and macOS. 115 widget
- NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator Multi-tier framework for evaluating AI agent skills with quality gates, semantic overlap detection, synthetic evaluation
- ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp Chrome DevTools for coding agents
- Alishahryar1/free-claude-code Use Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, VSCode, Pi, and OpenCode (and 6 other harnesses) for free (1.3B+ free tokens) from
- DIYgod/pinky Let AI use your iPhone or Android phone, with you in the loop: any MCP agent from macOS, Windows or Linux, or Pinky itse
- addyosmani/agent-skills Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
- QwenLM/qwen-code An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.
- ranxianglei/billion-context A context-compression plugin for month-long single sessions (billions of tokens) and small context windows (a 100K cont
- anomalyco/rune Rune: Native UI framework