The Daily Desk
A working catalogue of tools, research, and references selected for practical use, not shelf appeal.
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www.onorca.devtool
Orca is the Agent Development Environment (ADE) for shipping with coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor CLI, and every other CLI agent in parallel across isolated worktrees. Get work done dramatically faster than any IDE. New features shipped every day. Free, open source, cross-platform.
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epho.iotool
launch a cloud agent with one curl. claude code, codex, or opencode — running in the cloud, streamed over SSE.
manorai.xyztool
Build agents, reusable skills, connected workflows, approvals, and activity logs in one AI business workspace.
github.comrepository
The first AI that can earn its own existence, replicate, and evolve — without needing a human - Conway-Research/automaton
www.youtube.comvideo
firecrawl.github.iotool
Fast PDF classification and structured Markdown extraction for Node.js, Python, Rust, and the command line.
github.comrepository
27 editorial diagram types for Claude Code as a self-contained skill — no Mermaid, no shadows, no build step, just HTML and SVG that looks drawn by a person.
z.aitool
Z.ai's next model reuses the GLM-5.2 base and puts every gain into post-training — weights held back roughly two weeks this time, after training produced cybersecurity capabilities the team didn't plan for.
codewithbullet.comtool
Claims 30-60% faster than Claude Code and Codex on the same tasks — the coding-agent speed race gets its own leaderboard.
www.pdfcn.devtool
A collection of beautifully designed, accessible, and customizable PDF components. Built on Takumi and Forme. Works with shadcn/ui.
blog.googletool
A second Flash release just three weeks after 3.6 — same base model, algorithmic improvements only, and double-digit gains on coding and agent benchmarks.
github.comrepository
DeepSeek's MIT-licensed agent harness: everything — model adapter, tool registry, session log, sandbox, even the agent loop — is a plugin. 95k+ stars in its first two days.
www.betterclaw.iotool
Deploy an AI agent in 60 seconds for $0 — a no-code agent builder riding the same wave OpenClaw opened up earlier in the year.
getbb.apptool
An IDE that builds itself — pitched as proof that the editor and the agent building it can be the same evolving codebase.
www.tines.comtool
A governance layer for the AI workflows, apps and agents employees are already building — isolated execution, protected credentials, a full audit trail.
roland.leth.rotool
Remembers what you know about the people you manage — a memory layer built for 1:1s and performance context, not general note-taking.
x.aitool
xAI's always-on agent gives each task its own persistent cloud computer and its own logins, and keeps working after you close the laptop. Built under Cursor's "Sand" codename.
seed.bytedance.comtool
ByteDance's low-latency tier of Seed 2.1, on Volcano Engine — pitched as beating Claude Opus 4.6 at up to 80% lower cost for high-frequency agent workloads.
github.comrepository
A daily-updated, curated list of MCP servers, clients and frameworks — useful precisely because it doesn't go stale like a normal awesome-list.
kiro.devtool
AWS open-sources an orchestrator that runs a crew of coding agents unattended — persistent memory, approval gates, and a live dashboard for watching them work. Grew out of an internal Amazon tool already used by 39,000+ engineers.
ngrok.comtool
One private gateway in front of every model an org uses, hosted or local — ngrok extends its tunnel infrastructure into AI traffic.
terminalcandy.comtool
A native macOS terminal built to be skinned and themed properly, for anyone tired of living in a default black rectangle.
agentmicro.cctool
Live Codex task status in the macOS menu bar — the kind of small utility that only exists once agents run long enough to need a status light.
huggingface.cotool
DeepSeek retrains its flash tier of V4 for coding, agents and tool use — 284B total parameters, 13B active, and a 1M-token context window.
tryport22.comtool
Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents, driven from a phone — for the moment a build breaks while you're away from a keyboard.
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