LUP 661: Sink Your Claws In¶
- Air Date: 2026-04-05
- Duration: 64 mins 18 secs
About this episode¶
The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.
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Episode 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
- 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.
Tags¶
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