Forkcast Weekly #9: agency-agents, strix, codex-plugin-cc, exercises-dataset, simplex-chat

Episode Summary#

This episode covers 30 trending open-source projects including a 127K-star AI agency with 144 specialized personas, an AI penetration testing tool with 36K stars, OpenAI’s Codex plugin for Claude Code, a 248K-star agentic skills framework, and a 128K-star curated list of free developer services. Also featured are privacy-first messaging, GPU-accelerated NumPy, automotive robotics, and much more.

Repositories Covered#

agency-agents#

A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers.

strix#

Open-source AI penetration testing tool to find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.

codex-plugin-cc#

Use Codex from Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks.

exercises-dataset#

A comprehensive dataset of 433 fitness exercises.

simplex-chat#

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!.

caveman#

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman.

Vibe-Trading#

“Vibe-Trading: Your Personal Trading Agent”.

page-agent#

JavaScript in-page GUI agent.

cupy#

NumPy & SciPy for GPU.

FluidVoice#

Fastest and only macOS Dictation app with on-device STT and custom trained AI enhancement model.

elasticsearch#

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.

chrome-devtools-mcp#

Chrome DevTools for coding agents.

astryx#

An open source design system that’s fully customizable and agent ready.

checkout#

Action for checking out a repo.

OmniRoute#

Never stop coding.

maigret#

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites.

career-ops#

AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code.

video-use#

Edit videos with coding agents.

superpowers#

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

meetily#

Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust.

openpilot#

openpilot is an operating system for robotics.

free-for-dev#

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev.

system_prompts_leaks#

Extracted system prompts from Anthropic - Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.

ai-berkshire#

AI 时代的伯克希尔：基于 Claude Code / Codex 的价值投资研究框架。巴菲特·芒格·段永平·李录四大师方法论 + 多Agent并行研究。| AI-era Berkshire: a value investing research framework built for Claude Code / Codex.

ansible#

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain.

olmocr#

Toolkit for linearizing PDFs for LLM datasets/training.

cs249r_book#

Machine Learning Systems.

logto#

🧑‍🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.

romm#

A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.

herdr#

agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal.

Watch#

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88n8-vArQjI
• Cover: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/88n8-vArQjI/hqdefault.jpg

Notes#

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