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86,646 memories β chronological, newest first.
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure
Stars: 13957
Language: TypeScript
Topics: ai, augmentation, humans, productivity
Description: Agentic AI Infrastructure for magnifying HUMAN capabilities.
README (first 3000 chars):
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# Personal AI Infrastructure
[](https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure)
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[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 12:35 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: garrytan/gstack
Stars: 98274
Language: TypeScript
Topics:
Description: Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
README (first 3000 chars):
# gstack
> "I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is an extremely large change." β [Andrej Karpathy](https://fortune.com/2026/03/21/andrej-karpathy-openai-cofounder-ai-agents-coding-state-of-psychosis-openclaw/), No Priors podcast, March 2026
When I heard Karpathy say this, I wanted to find out how. How does one person ship like a team of twenty? Peter Steinberger built [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) β 247K GitHub stars β essentially solo with AI agents. The revolution is here. A single builder with the right tooling can move faster than a traditional team.
I'm [Garry Tan](https://x.com/garrytan), President & CEO of [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/). I've worked with thousands of startups β Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling β when they were one or two people in a garage. Before YC, I was one of the first eng/PM/designers at Palantir, cofounded Posterous (sold to Twitter), and built Bookface, YC's internal social network.
**gstack is my answer.** I've been building products for twenty years, and right now I'm shipping more products than I ever have. In the last 60 days: 3 production services, 40+ shipped features, part-time, while running YC full-time. On logical code change β not raw LOC, which AI inflates β my 2026 run rate is **~810Γ my 2013 pace** (11,417 vs 14 logical lines/day). Year-to-date (through April 18), 2026 has already produced **240Γ the entire 2013 year**. Measured across 40 public + private `garrytan/*` repos including Bookface, after excluding one demo repo. AI wrote most of it. The point isn't who typed it, it's what shipped.
> The LOC critics aren't wrong that raw line counts inflate with AI. They are wrong that normalized-for-inflation, I'm less productive. I'm more productive, by a lot. Full methodology, caveats, and reproduction script: **[On the LOC Controversy](docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md)**.
**2026 β 1,237 contributions and counting:**

**2013 β when I built Bookface at YC (772 contributions):**

Same person. Different era. The difference is the tooling.
**gstack is how I do it.** It turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team β a CEO who rethinks the product, an eng manager who locks architecture, a designer who catches AI slop, a reviewer who finds production bugs, a QA lead who opens a real browser, a security officer who runs OWASP + STRIDE audits, and a release engineer who ships the PR. Twenty-three specialists and eight power tools, all slash commands, all Markdown, all free, MIT license.
This is my open source software factory. I use
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 12:35 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: garrytan/gbrain
Stars: 16314
Language: TypeScript
Topics:
Description: Garry's Opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent Brain
README (first 3000 chars):
# GBrain
Your AI agent is smart but forgetful. GBrain gives it a brain.
Built by the President and CEO of Y Combinator to run his actual AI agents. The production brain powering his OpenClaw and Hermes deployments: **17,888 pages, 4,383 people, 723 companies**, 21 cron jobs running autonomously, built in 12 days. The agent ingests meetings, emails, tweets, voice calls, and original ideas while you sleep. It enriches every person and company it encounters. It fixes its own citations and consolidates memory overnight. You wake up and the brain is smarter than when you went to bed.
The brain wires itself. Every page write extracts entity references and creates typed links (`attended`, `works_at`, `invested_in`, `founded`, `advises`) with zero LLM calls. Hybrid search. Self-wiring knowledge graph. Structured timeline. Backlink-boosted ranking. Ask "who works at Acme AI?" or "what did Bob invest in this quarter?" and get answers vector search alone can't reach. Benchmarked side-by-side against the category: gbrain lands **P@5 49.1%, R@5 97.9%** on a 240-page Opus-generated rich-prose corpus, beating its own graph-disabled variant by **+31.4 points P@5** and ripgrep-BM25 + vector-only RAG by a similar margin. The graph layer plus v0.12 extract quality together carry the gap. Full BrainBench scorecards + corpus live in the sibling [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals) repo.
GBrain is those patterns, generalized. 34 skills. Install in 30 minutes. Your agent does the work. As Garry's personal agent gets smarter, so does yours.
**New in v0.25.0 β BrainBench-Real (session capture, contributor opt-in):** with `GBRAIN_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE=1` set in your shell, every real `query` + `search` call through MCP, CLI, or the subagent tool-bridge gets captured (PII-scrubbed) into an `eval_candidates` table. Snapshot with `gbrain eval export`, replay against your code change with `gbrain eval replay`. Three numbers come back: mean Jaccard@k between captured and current retrieved slugs, top-1 stability, and latency Ξ. **Off by default** for production users β no surprise data accumulation. Walkthrough: [docs/eval-bench.md](docs/eval-bench.md). NDJSON wire format: [docs/eval-capture.md](docs/eval-capture.md).
**New in v0.28.8 β LongMemEval in the box:** `gbrain eval longmemeval <dataset.jsonl>` runs the public [LongMemEval](https://huggingface.co/datasets/xiaowu0162/longmemeval) benchmark against gbrain's hybrid retrieval. One in-memory PGLite per run, `TRUNCATE` between questions (runtime-enumerated tables, schema-migration-safe), 25.9ms p50 per question on Apple Silicon. Your `~/.gbrain` brain is never touched. Retrieved chat content is sanitized with the same `INJECTION_PATTERNS` that protect takes β one source of truth for prompt-injection defense. Hand the JSONL output to LongMemEval's `evaluate_qa.py` to score.
> **~30 minutes to a fully working brain.** Da
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Self-wiring knowledge graph brain for AI agents with hybrid search, entity extraction, autonomous cron-driven enrichment, and benchmark-grade retrieval built for OpenClaw/Hermes-style deployments.",
"stack": ["TypeScript", "PGLite", "Postgres", "MCP", "CLI", "Knowledge Graph", "Vector Search", "BM25"],
"why_mike_cares": "Direct overlap with Master Brain (his single brain project on Supabase + Neo4j with 287K vectors), OpenClaw/Hermes ecosystem, MCP tooling, and agent memory patterns he is actively building.",
"verdict": "check-it-out",
"verdict_reason": "This is essentially a productized version of what Master Brain is trying to be, with autonomous overnight enrichment, self-wiring entity graph, and benchmarked retrieval, plus it ships as MCP for OpenClaw/Hermes which Mike already runs."
}
May 17, 12:34 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: karpathy/autoresearch
Stars: 81452
Language: Python
Topics:
Description: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
README (first 3000 chars):
# autoresearch

*One day, frontier AI research used to be done by meat computers in between eating, sleeping, having other fun, and synchronizing once in a while using sound wave interconnect in the ritual of "group meeting". That era is long gone. Research is now entirely the domain of autonomous swarms of AI agents running across compute cluster megastructures in the skies. The agents claim that we are now in the 10,205th generation of the code base, in any case no one could tell if that's right or wrong as the "code" is now a self-modifying binary that has grown beyond human comprehension. This repo is the story of how it all began. -@karpathy, March 2026*.
The idea: give an AI agent a small but real LLM training setup and let it experiment autonomously overnight. It modifies the code, trains for 5 minutes, checks if the result improved, keeps or discards, and repeats. You wake up in the morning to a log of experiments and (hopefully) a better model. The training code here is a simplified single-GPU implementation of [nanochat](https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat). The core idea is that you're not touching any of the Python files like you normally would as a researcher. Instead, you are programming the `program.md` Markdown files that provide context to the AI agents and set up your autonomous research org. The default `program.md` in this repo is intentionally kept as a bare bones baseline, though it's obvious how one would iterate on it over time to find the "research org code" that achieves the fastest research progress, how you'd add more agents to the mix, etc. A bit more context on this project is here in this [tweet](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2029701092347630069) and [this tweet](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2031135152349524125).
## How it works
The repo is deliberately kept small and only really has three files that matter:
- **`prepare.py`** β fixed constants, one-time data prep (downloads training data, trains a BPE tokenizer), and runtime utilities (dataloader, evaluation). Not modified.
- **`train.py`** β the single file the agent edits. Contains the full GPT model, optimizer (Muon + AdamW), and training loop. Everything is fair game: architecture, hyperparameters, optimizer, batch size, etc. **This file is edited and iterated on by the agent**.
- **`program.md`** β baseline instructions for one agent. Point your agent here and let it go. **This file is edited and iterated on by the human**.
By design, training runs for a **fixed 5-minute time budget** (wall clock, excluding startup/compilation), regardless of the details of your compute. The metric is **val_bpb** (validation bits per byte) β lower is better, and vocab-size-independent so architectural changes are fairly compared.
If you are new to neural networks, this ["Dummy's Guide"](https://x.com/hooeem/status/2030720614752039185
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 12:34 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: karpathy/nanochat
Stars: 53556
Language: Python
Topics:
Description: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
README (first 3000 chars):
# nanochat


nanochat is the simplest experimental harness for training LLMs. It is designed to run on a single GPU node, the code is minimal/hackable, and it covers all major LLM stages including tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, inference, and a chat UI. For example, you can train your own GPT-2 capability LLM (which cost ~$43,000 to train in 2019) for only $48 (~2 hours of 8XH100 GPU node) and then talk to it in a familiar ChatGPT-like web UI. On a spot instance, the total cost can be closer to ~$15. More generally, nanochat is configured out of the box to train an entire miniseries of compute-optimal models by setting one single complexity dial: `--depth`, the number of layers in the GPT transformer model (GPT-2 capability happens to be approximately depth 26). All other hyperparameters (the width of the transformer, number of heads, learning rate adjustments, training horizons, weight decays, ...) are calculated automatically in an optimal way.
For questions about the repo, I recommend either using [DeepWiki](https://deepwiki.com/karpathy/nanochat) from Devin/Cognition to ask questions about the repo, or use the [Discussions tab](https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/discussions), or come by the [#nanochat](https://discord.com/channels/1020383067459821711/1427295580895314031) channel on Discord.
## Time-to-GPT-2 Leaderboard
Presently, the main focus of development is on tuning the pretraining stage, which takes the most amount of compute. Inspired by the modded-nanogpt repo and to incentivise progress and community collaboration, nanochat maintains a leaderboard for a "GPT-2 speedrun", which is the wall-clock time required to train a nanochat model to GPT-2 grade capability, as measured by the DCLM CORE score. The [runs/speedrun.sh](runs/speedrun.sh) script always reflects the reference way to train GPT-2 grade model and talk to it. The current leaderboard looks as follows:
| # | time | val_bpb | CORE | Description | Date | Commit | Contributors |
|---|-------------|---------|------|-------------|------|--------|--------------|
| 0 | 168 hours | - | 0.2565 | Original OpenAI GPT-2 checkpoint | 2019 | - | OpenAI |
| 1 | 3.04 | 0.74833 | 0.2585 | d24 baseline, slightly overtrained | Jan 29 2026 | 348fbb3 | @karpathy |
| 2 | 2.91 | 0.74504 | 0.2578 | d26 slightly undertrained **+fp8** | Feb 2 2026 | a67eba3 | @karpathy |
| 3 | 2.76 | 0.74645 | 0.2602 | bump total batch size to 1M tokens | Feb 5 2026 | 2c062aa | @karpathy |
| 4 | 2.02 | 0.71854 | 0.2571 | change dataset to NVIDIA ClimbMix | Mar 4 2026 | 324e69c | @ddudek @karpathy |
| 5 | 1.80 | 0.71808 | 0.2690 | autoresearch [round 1](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2031135152349524125) | Mar 9 2026 | 6ed7d1d | @karpathy |
| 6 | 1.65 | 0.71800 | 0.2626 | autoresearch round 2 | Mar 14 2026 | a825e63 | @karpathy |
The primary met
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Karpathy's minimal single-GPU-node training harness covering the full LLM lifecycle (tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, eval, inference, chat UI) for ~$48-$100.",
"stack": ["Python", "PyTorch", "CUDA", "Transformers"],
"why_mike_cares": "Adjacent to Mike's LLM tooling and agent work but training from scratch is not in his active stack, which is API-driven (Claude, Opus, Anthropic SDK) rather than model training.",
"verdict": "worth-knowing",
"verdict_reason": "53K-star Karpathy repo with deep educational value for understanding LLM internals, but no direct overlap with Mike's API-orchestration and SEO automation projects."
}
May 17, 12:33 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: anthropics/claude-code
Stars: 124269
Language: Shell
Topics:
Description: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
README (first 3000 chars):
# Claude Code
 [![npm]](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code)
[npm]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@anthropic-ai/claude-code.svg?style=flat-square
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows -- all through natural language commands. Use it in your terminal, IDE, or tag @claude on Github.
**Learn more in the [official documentation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview)**.
<img src="./demo.gif" />
## Get started
> [!NOTE]
> Installation via npm is deprecated. Use one of the recommended methods below.
For more installation options, uninstall steps, and troubleshooting, see the [setup documentation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup).
1. Install Claude Code:
**MacOS/Linux (Recommended):**
```bash
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
```
**Homebrew (MacOS/Linux):**
```bash
brew install --cask claude-code
```
**Windows (Recommended):**
```powershell
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex
```
**WinGet (Windows):**
```powershell
winget install Anthropic.ClaudeCode
```
**NPM (Deprecated):**
```bash
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```
2. Navigate to your project directory and run `claude`.
## Plugins
This repository includes several Claude Code plugins that extend functionality with custom commands and agents. See the [plugins directory](./plugins/README.md) for detailed documentation on available plugins.
## Reporting Bugs
We welcome your feedback. Use the `/bug` command to report issues directly within Claude Code, or file a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues).
## Connect on Discord
Join the [Claude Developers Discord](https://anthropic.com/discord) to connect with other developers using Claude Code. Get help, share feedback, and discuss your projects with the community.
## Data collection, usage, and retention
When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the `/bug` command.
### How we use your data
See our [data usage policies](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage).
### Privacy safeguards
We have implemented several safeguards to protect your data, including limited retention periods for sensitive information, restricted access to user session data, and clear policies against using feedback for model training.
For full details, please
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 12:33 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: ollama/ollama
Stars: 171590
Language: Go
Topics: deepseek, gemma, gemma3, glm, go, golang, gpt-oss, llama, llama3, llm, llms, minimax, mistral, ollama, qwen
Description: Get up and running with Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
README (first 3000 chars):
<p align="center">
<a href="https://ollama.com">
<img src="https://github.com/ollama/ollama/assets/3325447/0d0b44e2-8f4a-4e99-9b52-a5c1c741c8f7" alt="ollama" width="200"/>
</a>
</p>
# Ollama
Start building with open models.
## Download
### macOS
```shell
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
```
or [download manually](https://ollama.com/download/Ollama.dmg)
### Windows
```shell
irm https://ollama.com/install.ps1 | iex
```
or [download manually](https://ollama.com/download/OllamaSetup.exe)
### Linux
```shell
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
```
[Manual install instructions](https://docs.ollama.com/linux#manual-install)
### Docker
The official [Ollama Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama) `ollama/ollama` is available on Docker Hub.
### Libraries
- [ollama-python](https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python)
- [ollama-js](https://github.com/ollama/ollama-js)
### Community
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/ollama)
- [π (Twitter)](https://x.com/ollama)
- [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/ollama)
## Get started
```
ollama
```
You'll be prompted to run a model or connect Ollama to your existing agents or applications such as `Claude Code`, `OpenClaw`, `OpenCode` , `Codex`, `Copilot`, and more.
### Coding
To launch a specific integration:
```
ollama launch claude
```
Supported integrations include [Claude Code](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/claude-code), [Codex](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/codex), [Copilot CLI](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/copilot-cli), [Droid](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/droid), and [OpenCode](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/opencode).
### AI assistant
Use [OpenClaw](https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/openclaw) to turn Ollama into a personal AI assistant across WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and more:
```
ollama launch openclaw
```
### Chat with a model
Run and chat with [Gemma 3](https://ollama.com/library/gemma3):
```
ollama run gemma3
```
See [ollama.com/library](https://ollama.com/library) for the full list.
See the [quickstart guide](https://docs.ollama.com/quickstart) for more details.
## REST API
Ollama has a REST API for running and managing models.
```
curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat -d '{
"model": "gemma3",
"messages": [{
"role": "user",
"content": "Why is the sky blue?"
}],
"stream": false
}'
```
See the [API documentation](https://docs.ollama.com/api) for all endpoints.
### Python
```
pip install ollama
```
```python
from ollama import chat
response = chat(model='gemma3', messages=[
{
'role': 'user',
'content': 'Why is the sky blue?',
},
])
print(response.message.content)
```
### JavaScript
```
npm i ollama
```
```javascript
import ollama
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is": "Local LLM runtime that lets you run open models like Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GPT-OSS on your own machine with a simple CLI and REST API.","stack": ["Go", "llama.cpp", "REST API", "Docker", "Python SDK", "JavaScript SDK"],"why_mike_cares": "Mike already uses Ollama in his tech stack for local model hosting and it now ships native launchers for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw which are core to his agent ecosystem.","verdict": "check-it-out","verdict_reason": "Direct overlap with Mike's active Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw runtimes plus his existing Ollama usage for local inference."}
May 17, 12:32 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT
Stars: 184368
Language: Python
Topics: agentic-ai, agents, ai, artificial-intelligence, autonomous-agents, claude, gpt, llama-api, llm, openai, python
Description: AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.
README (first 3000 chars):
# AutoGPT: Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agents
[](https://discord.gg/autogpt)  
[](https://twitter.com/Auto_GPT)  
<!-- Keep these links. Translations will automatically update with the README. -->
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[δΈζ](https://zdoc.app/zh/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT)
**AutoGPT** is a powerful platform that allows you to create, deploy, and manage continuous AI agents that automate complex workflows.
## Hosting Options
- Download to self-host (Free!)
- [Join the Waitlist](https://bit.ly/3ZDijAI) for the cloud-hosted beta (Closed Beta - Public release Coming Soon!)
## How to Self-Host the AutoGPT Platform
> [!NOTE]
> Setting up and hosting the AutoGPT Platform yourself is a technical process.
> If you'd rather something that just works, we recommend [joining the waitlist](https://bit.ly/3ZDijAI) for the cloud-hosted beta.
### System Requirements
Before proceeding with the installation, ensure your system meets the following requirements:
#### Hardware Requirements
- CPU: 4+ cores recommended
- RAM: Minimum 8GB, 16GB recommended
- Storage: At least 10GB of free space
#### Software Requirements
- Operating Systems:
- Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 or newer recommended)
- macOS (10.15 or newer)
- Windows 10/11 with WSL2
- Required Software (with minimum versions):
- Docker Engine (20.10.0 or newer)
- Docker Compose (2.0.0 or newer)
- Git (2.30 or newer)
- Node.js (16.x or newer)
- npm (8.x or newer)
- VSCode (1.60 or newer) or any modern code editor
#### Network Requirements
- Stable internet connection
- Access to required ports (will be configured in Docker)
- Ability to make outbound HTTPS connections
### Updated Setup Instructions:
We've moved to a fully maintained and regularly updated documentation site.
π [Follow the official self-hosting guide here](https://agpt.co/docs/platform/getting-started/getting-started)
This tutorial assumes you have Docker, VSCode, git and npm installed.
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Self-hostable platform for building, deploying, and running continuous autonomous AI agents that automate multi-step workflows.",
"stack": ["Python", "Docker", "Node.js", "TypeScript", "OpenAI API"],
"why_mike_cares": "Adjacent to Mike's multi-agent ecosystem (Oliver/Carlos/leads) but bloated, OpenAI-centric, and architecturally different from his Claude Code + subagent pattern.",
"verdict": "worth-knowing",
"verdict_reason": "Category-defining agent platform worth tracking for ideas, but too heavy and opinionated to slot into Mike's lean Claude-native stack."
}
May 17, 12:32 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: microsoft/vscode
Stars: 185002
Language: TypeScript
Topics: editor, electron, microsoft, typescript, visual-studio-code
Description: Visual Studio Code
README (first 3000 chars):
# Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS")
[](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afeature-request+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc)
[](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?utf8=β&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Abug)
[](https://gitter.im/Microsoft/vscode)
## The Repository
This repository ("`Code - OSS`") is where we (Microsoft) develop the [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) product together with the community. Not only do we work on code and issues here, but we also publish our [roadmap](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap), [monthly iteration plans](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Iteration-Plans), and our [endgame plans](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Running-the-Endgame). This source code is available to everyone under the standard [MIT license](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt).
## Visual Studio Code
<p align="center">
<img alt="VS Code in action" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35271042/118224532-3842c400-b438-11eb-923d-a5f66fa6785a.png">
</p>
[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) is a distribution of the `Code - OSS` repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional [Microsoft product license](https://code.visualstudio.com/License/).
[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
Visual Studio Code is updated monthly with new features and bug fixes. You can download it for Windows, macOS, and Linux on [Visual Studio Code's website](https://code.visualstudio.com/Download). To get the latest releases every day, install the [Insiders build](https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders).
## Contributing
There are many ways in which you can participate in this project, for example:
* [Submit bugs and feature requests](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues), and help us verify as they are checked in
* Review [source code changes](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls)
* Review the [documentation](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs) and make pull requests for anything from typos to and new content.
If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base,
please see the document [How to Contribute](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute), which covers the following:
* [Ho
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is": "The open-source core of Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's cross-platform code editor.", "stack": ["TypeScript", "Electron", "Node.js"], "why_mike_cares": "Low overlap as a codebase, but VS Code is the host editor for Claude Code and Codex extensions Mike uses daily.", "verdict": "skip", "verdict_reason": "Mike uses VS Code as a tool, not something he'd fork or extract patterns from at the repo level."}
May 17, 12:31 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: n8n-io/n8n
Stars: 188280
Language: TypeScript
Topics: ai, apis, automation, cli, data-flow, development, integration-framework, integrations, ipaas, low-code, low-code-platform, mcp, mcp-client, mcp-server, n8n, no-code, self-hosted, typescript, workflow, workflow-automation
Description: Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
README (first 3000 chars):

# n8n - Secure Workflow Automation for Technical Teams
n8n is a workflow automation platform that gives technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code. With 400+ integrations, native AI capabilities, and a fair-code license, n8n lets you build powerful automations while maintaining full control over your data and deployments.

## Key Capabilities
- **Code When You Need It**: Write JavaScript/Python, add npm packages, or use the visual interface
- **AI-Native Platform**: Build AI agent workflows based on LangChain with your own data and models
- **Full Control**: Self-host with our fair-code license or use our [cloud offering](https://app.n8n.cloud/login)
- **Enterprise-Ready**: Advanced permissions, SSO, and air-gapped deployments
- **Active Community**: 400+ integrations and 900+ ready-to-use [templates](https://n8n.io/workflows)
## Quick Start
Try n8n instantly with [npx](https://docs.n8n.io/hosting/installation/npm/) (requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)):
```
npx n8n
```
Or deploy with [Docker](https://docs.n8n.io/hosting/installation/docker/):
```
docker volume create n8n_data
docker run -it --rm --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
```
Access the editor at http://localhost:5678
## Resources
- π [Documentation](https://docs.n8n.io)
- π§ [400+ Integrations](https://n8n.io/integrations)
- π‘ [Example Workflows](https://n8n.io/workflows)
- π€ [AI & LangChain Guide](https://docs.n8n.io/advanced-ai/)
- π₯ [Community Forum](https://community.n8n.io)
- π [Community Tutorials](https://community.n8n.io/c/tutorials/28)
## Support
Need help? Our community forum is the place to get support and connect with other users:
[community.n8n.io](https://community.n8n.io)
## License
n8n is [fair-code](https://faircode.io) distributed under the [Sustainable Use License](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md) and [n8n Enterprise License](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE_EE.md).
- **Source Available**: Always visible source code
- **Self-Hostable**: Deploy anywhere
- **Extensible**: Add your own nodes and functionality
[Enterprise Licenses](mailto:license@n8n.io) available for additional features and support.
Additional information about the license model can be found in the [docs](https://docs.n8n.io/sustainable-use-license/).
## Cont
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is":"Fair-code workflow automation platform with 400+ integrations, native AI/LangChain support, MCP client/server nodes, and self-host or cloud deployment.","stack":["TypeScript","Node.js","LangChain","Docker","MCP"],"why_mike_cares":"Direct overlap with Mike's agent ecosystem, MCP work, GoHighLevel/SignalWire/Discord automation, and SEO pipelines, plus n8n is already in his stack mention list.","verdict":"check-it-out","verdict_reason":"n8n is the canonical self-hosted automation hub for AI agent workflows and Mike runs exactly the kind of multi-integration, MCP-driven, self-hosted automation stack n8n is built for."}
May 17, 12:31 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: ultraworkers/claw-code
Stars: 191750
Language: Rust
Topics:
Description: The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars β. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.
README (first 3000 chars):
# Claw Code
<p align="center">
<a href="https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code">ultraworkers/claw-code</a>
Β·
<a href="./USAGE.md">Usage</a>
Β·
<a href="./rust/README.md">Rust workspace</a>
Β·
<a href="./PARITY.md">Parity</a>
Β·
<a href="./ROADMAP.md">Roadmap</a>
Β·
<a href="./CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing</a>
Β·
<a href="./SECURITY.md">Security</a>
Β·
<a href="https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd">UltraWorkers Discord</a>
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://star-history.com/#ultraworkers/claw-code&Date">
<picture>
<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=ultraworkers/claw-code&type=Date&theme=dark" />
<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=ultraworkers/claw-code&type=Date" />
<img alt="Star history for ultraworkers/claw-code" src="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=ultraworkers/claw-code&type=Date" width="600" />
</picture>
</a>
</p>
<p align="center">
<img src="assets/claw-hero.jpeg" alt="Claw Code" width="300" />
</p>
Claw Code is the public Rust implementation of the `claw` CLI agent harness.
The canonical implementation lives in [`rust/`](./rust), and the current source of truth for this repository is **ultraworkers/claw-code**.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Start with [`USAGE.md`](./USAGE.md) for build, auth, CLI, session, and parity-harness workflows. For file submission/navigation questions, see [Navigation and file context](./docs/navigation-file-context.md). For local OpenAI-compatible models and offline skill installs, see [Local OpenAI-compatible providers and skills setup](./docs/local-openai-compatible-providers.md). Windows users can jump to the PowerShell-first [Windows install and release quickstart](./docs/windows-install-release.md). Make `claw doctor` your first health check after building, use [`rust/README.md`](./rust/README.md) for crate-level details, read [`PARITY.md`](./PARITY.md) for the current Rust-port checkpoint, and see [`docs/container.md`](./docs/container.md) for the container-first workflow.
>
> **ACP / Zed status:** `claw-code` does not ship an ACP/Zed daemon or JSON-RPC entrypoint yet. Run `claw acp` (or `claw --acp`) for the current status instead of guessing from source layout; `claw acp serve` is currently a discoverability alias only, returns status with exit code 0, and real ACP support remains tracked separately in `ROADMAP.md`. For the public JSON contract, see [`docs/g011-acp-json-rpc-status-contract.md`](./docs/g011-acp-json-rpc-status-contract.md).
## Current repository shape
- **`rust/`** β canonical Rust workspace and the `claw` CLI binary
- **`USAGE.md`** β task-oriented usage guide for the current product surface
- **`PARITY.md`
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is": "Rust-based CLI agent harness (a `claw` CLI) positioned as an alternative coding agent runtime with parity tracking to Codex-style workflows.", "stack": ["Rust", "CLI", "ACP/JSON-RPC", "OpenAI-compatible providers"], "why_mike_cares": "Direct overlap with Mike's agentic coding stack (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw) and his interest in CLI-first agent harnesses, though the 191K stars and 'party unlocked' framing smell like a hype/joke repo rather than a serious tool.", "verdict": "worth-knowing", "verdict_reason": "Adjacent to Mike's OpenClaw/Codex/Claude Code ecosystem and CLI-first routing rule, but the suspicious star count and meme-y description suggest validating legitimacy before adopting."}
May 17, 12:30 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: tensorflow/tensorflow
Stars: 195134
Language: C++
Topics: deep-learning, deep-neural-networks, distributed, machine-learning, ml, neural-network, python, tensorflow
Description: An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
README (first 3000 chars):
<div align="center">
<img src="https://www.tensorflow.org/images/tf_logo_horizontal.png">
</div>
[](https://badge.fury.io/py/tensorflow)
[](https://badge.fury.io/py/tensorflow)
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4724125)
[](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1486)
[](https://securityscorecards.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow)
[](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:tensorflow)
[](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:tensorflow-py)
[](https://ossrank.com/p/44)
[](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
**`Documentation`** |
------------------- |
[](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/) |
[TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/) is an end-to-end open source platform
for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of
[tools](https://www.tensorflow.org/resources/tools),
[libraries](https://www.tensorflow.org/resources/libraries-extensions), and
[community](https://www.tensorflow.org/community) resources that lets
researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and
deploy ML-powered applications.
TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working within
the Machine Intelligence team at Google Brain to conduct research in machine
learning and neural networks. However, the framework is versatile enough to be
used in other areas as well.
TensorFlow provides stable [Python](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python)
and [C++](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/cc) APIs, as well as a
non-guaranteed backward compatible API for
[other languages](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs).
Keep up-to-date with release announcements and security updates by subscribing
to
[announce@tensorflow.org](https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/#!forum/announce).
See all the [mailing lists](https://www.tensorflow.org/community/forums).
## Install
See the [TensorFlow install guide](https://www.tensorflow.org/install) for the
[pi
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Google's end-to-end open source machine learning framework for building and deploying neural networks.",
"stack": ["Python", "C++", "CUDA", "Keras"],
"why_mike_cares": "Low overlap - Mike consumes LLM APIs (Claude, Gemini) rather than training models from scratch.",
"verdict": "skip",
"verdict_reason": "Foundational ML framework, not agentic tooling - Mike's stack is API-driven LLM orchestration, not model training infrastructure."
}
May 17, 12:30 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: vinta/awesome-python
Stars: 298097
Language: Python
Topics: awesome, collections, python, python-frameworks, python-libraries, python-tools
Description: An opinionated list of Python frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources
README (first 3000 chars):
# [Awesome Python](https://awesome-python.com/)
An opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources.
**Visit the [website](https://awesome-python.com/) to search and filter projects more easily.**
## **Sponsors**
- **[pyr](https://pyrun.dev)**: Zero-config Python project manager. Bootstraps its own runtime, app-convention, and working imports - out the box.
> The **#10 most-starred repo on GitHub**. Put your product in front of Python developers. [Become a sponsor](SPONSORSHIP.md).
## Categories
**AI & ML**
- [AI and Agents](#ai-and-agents)
- [Deep Learning](#deep-learning)
- [Machine Learning](#machine-learning)
- [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing)
- [Computer Vision](#computer-vision)
- [Recommender Systems](#recommender-systems)
**Web Development**
- [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks)
- [Web APIs](#web-apis)
- [Web Servers](#web-servers)
- [WebSocket](#websocket)
- [Template Engines](#template-engines)
- [Web Asset Management](#web-asset-management)
- [Authentication](#authentication)
- [Admin Panels](#admin-panels)
- [CMS](#cms)
- [Static Site Generators](#static-site-generators)
**HTTP & Scraping**
- [HTTP Clients](#http-clients)
- [Web Scraping](#web-scraping)
- [Email](#email)
**Database & Storage**
- [ORM](#orm)
- [Database Drivers](#database-drivers)
- [Database](#database)
- [Caching](#caching)
- [Search](#search)
- [Serialization](#serialization)
**Data & Science**
- [Data Analysis](#data-analysis)
- [Data Ingestion / ETL](#data-ingestion--etl)
- [Data Validation](#data-validation)
- [Data Visualization](#data-visualization)
- [Geolocation](#geolocation)
- [Science](#science)
- [Quantum Computing](#quantum-computing)
**Developer Tools**
- [Algorithms and Design Patterns](#algorithms-and-design-patterns)
- [Interactive Interpreter](#interactive-interpreter)
- [Code Analysis](#code-analysis)
- [Testing](#testing)
- [Debugging Tools](#debugging-tools)
- [Build Tools](#build-tools)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
**DevOps**
- [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools)
- [Distributed Computing](#distributed-computing)
- [Task Queues](#task-queues)
- [Messaging](#messaging)
- [Job Schedulers](#job-schedulers)
- [Logging](#logging)
- [Network Virtualization](#network-virtualization)
**CLI & GUI**
- [CLI Development](#cli-development)
- [CLI Tools](#cli-tools)
- [GUI Development](#gui-development)
**Text & Documents**
- [Text Processing](#text-processing)
- [HTML Manipulation](#html-manipulation)
- [File Format Processing](#file-format-processing)
- [File Manipulation](#file-manipulation)
**Media**
- [Image Processing](#image-processing)
- [Audio & Video Processing](#audio--video-processing)
- [Game Development](#game-development)
**Python Language**
- [Implementations](#implementat
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is": "A curated mega-list of Python frameworks, libraries, and tools organized by category.", "stack": ["Python", "Markdown"], "why_mike_cares": "Useful reference catalog for picking Python libs across AI/ML, web scraping, task queues, and CLI dev that Mike uses in automation pipelines.", "verdict": "worth-knowing", "verdict_reason": "Not actionable on its own, but a solid lookup index when scoping Python tooling for agents, scrapers, or schedulers."}
May 17, 12:29 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: openclaw/openclaw
Stars: 372550
Language: TypeScript
Topics: ai, assistant, crustacean, molty, openclaw, own-your-data, personal
Description: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. π¦
README (first 3000 chars):
# π¦ OpenClaw β Personal AI Assistant
<p align="center">
<picture>
<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/openclaw/main/docs/assets/openclaw-logo-text-dark.svg">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/openclaw/main/docs/assets/openclaw-logo-text.svg" alt="OpenClaw" width="500">
</picture>
</p>
<p align="center">
<strong>EXFOLIATE! EXFOLIATE!</strong>
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/actions/workflows/ci.yml?branch=main"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/openclaw/openclaw/ci.yml?branch=main&style=for-the-badge" alt="CI status"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/openclaw/openclaw?include_prereleases&style=for-the-badge" alt="GitHub release"></a>
<a href="https://discord.gg/clawd"><img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/1456350064065904867?label=Discord&logo=discord&logoColor=white&color=5865F2&style=for-the-badge" alt="Discord"></a>
<a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg?style=for-the-badge" alt="MIT License"></a>
</p>
**OpenClaw** is a _personal AI assistant_ you run on your own devices.
It answers you on the channels you already use. It can speak and listen on macOS/iOS/Android, and can render a live Canvas you control. The Gateway is just the control plane β the product is the assistant.
If you want a personal, single-user assistant that feels local, fast, and always-on, this is it.
Supported channels include: WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, IRC, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, Feishu, LINE, Mattermost, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Zalo, Zalo Personal, WeChat, QQ, WebChat.
[Website](https://openclaw.ai) Β· [Docs](https://docs.openclaw.ai) Β· [Vision](VISION.md) Β· [DeepWiki](https://deepwiki.com/openclaw/openclaw) Β· [Getting Started](https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started) Β· [Updating](https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/updating) Β· [Showcase](https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/showcase) Β· [FAQ](https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq) Β· [Onboarding](https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/wizard) Β· [Nix](https://github.com/openclaw/nix-openclaw) Β· [Docker](https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/docker) Β· [Discord](https://discord.gg/clawd)
New install? Start here: [Getting started](https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started)
Preferred setup: run `openclaw onboard` in your terminal.
OpenClaw Onboard guides you step by step through setting up the gateway, workspace, channels, and skills. It is the recommended CLI setup path and works on **macOS, Linux, and Windows (via WSL2; strongly recommended)**.
Works with npm, pnpm, or bun.
## Sponsors
<t
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is":"OpenClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs across 20+ chat channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage, etc.) with voice, canvas, and skills/plugins.","stack":["TypeScript","Node.js","Discord API","Telegram API","Slack API","WhatsApp","Docker","Nix"],"why_mike_cares":"Mike already operates OpenClaw in his ecosystem (OliverOscar agent, Mac-side orchestration, Telegram/Discord routing, SecureClaw, skill/plugin vetting) and has a dedicated openclaw-vps-operator skill plus Matteo-Jr watching its runtime.","verdict":"check-it-out","verdict_reason":"This is a core production runtime in Mike's stack, not a curiosity β any upstream change directly impacts his agent fleet."}
May 17, 12:29 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
Stars: 444977
Language: TypeScript
Topics: careers, certification, community, curriculum, d3, education, freecodecamp, javascript, learn-to-code, math, nodejs, nonprofits, programming, react, teachers
Description: freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free.
README (first 3000 chars):
[](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)
[](https://www.firsttimersonly.com/)
[](https://discord.gg/PRyKn3Vbay)
[](https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/freecodecamp/repository/freecodecamp-freecodecamp)
## freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum
[freeCodeCamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org) is a friendly community where you can learn to code for free. It is run by a [donor-supported 501(c)(3) charity](https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate) to help millions of busy adults transition into tech. Our community has already helped more than 100,000 people get their first developer job.
Our full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum is completely free and self-paced. We have thousands of interactive coding challenges to help you expand your skills.
## Table of Contents
- [Certifications](#certifications)
- [The Learning Platform](#the-learning-platform)
- [Reporting Bugs and Issues](#reporting-bugs-and-issues)
- [Reporting Security Issues and Responsible Disclosure](#reporting-security-issues-and-responsible-disclosure)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Platform, Build and Deployment Status](#platform-build-and-deployment-status)
- [License](#license)
### Certifications
freeCodeCamp.org offers several free developer certifications that make up the [Full-Stack Developer Curriculum](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer-v9/):
- [Responsive Web Design](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design-v9/)
- [JavaScript](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-v9/)
- [Front-End Development Libraries](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/front-end-development-libraries-v9/)
- [Python](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/python-v9/)
- [Relational Databases](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/relational-databases-v9/)
- [Back-End Development and APIs](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis-v9/)
Each of these certifications involves completing interactive lessons, workshops, labs, reviews, and quizzes. Throughout the certification, you'll need to complete 5 required projects to qualify for the exam. Once you pass the exam, then you can claim the certification.
freeCodeCamp.org also offers free langu
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is": "freeCodeCamp's open-source learning platform and curriculum for teaching coding, math, and computer science to millions of self-taught developers.","stack": ["TypeScript","JavaScript","React","Node.js","D3"],"why_mike_cares": "Low overlap, this is a learn-to-code education platform, not agent tooling or SEO automation.","verdict": "skip","verdict_reason": "Pure learning curriculum with no connection to Mike's AI agent, SEO automation, or agency tooling work."}
May 17, 12:28 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: opensquilla/opensquilla
Stars: 937
Language: Python
Topics: agent, ai, ai-agents, deep-learning, foundation-models, llm, mcp, memory, openclaw, python, skills
Description: OpenSquilla β Token-Efficient AI Agent with same budget, higher intelligence density
README (first 3000 chars):
# OpenSquilla β Token-Efficient AI Agent
<p align="center">
<img src="assets/opensquilla-long-logo.png" alt="OpenSquilla logo" width="500">
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://opensquilla.ai/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/website-opensquilla.ai-blue?style=for-the-badge" alt="Website"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/opensquilla/opensquilla/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/opensquilla/opensquilla?include_prereleases&style=for-the-badge" alt="GitHub release"></a>
<a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg?style=for-the-badge" alt="Apache 2.0 License"></a>
</p>
## Overview
OpenSquilla is a token-efficient, microkernel AI agent β same budget,
more capability, better results. It combines smart routing, persistent
memory, a secure sandbox, built-in web search, and local embeddings
under a single model loop.
Every entry point β Web UI, CLI, and chat channels β runs through a
shared `TurnRunner`, and a pluggable provider layer lets it speak to
OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, DeepSeek, Gemini, Qwen/DashScope,
and roughly twenty other LLM providers without changes to your code or
config schema.
## Quick start
Choose the path that matches how you want to use OpenSquilla:
| User type | Path | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New user | [Preview release package](#preview-release-package) | Recommended |
| Command-line user | [Install from source](#install-from-source) | Available now |
| Developer | [Develop from source](#develop-from-source) | Available now |
SquillaRouter is included by default in the preview release packages and in
the normal source install path. Only choose the `core` profile or `--router
disabled` if you intentionally want to skip the bundled router.
### Preview release package
Download the preview package if you want to try OpenSquilla as a local app
without cloning the repository or installing Git, Git LFS, or `uv`.
1. Download the package from the [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/opensquilla/opensquilla/releases)
page and extract it to a writable folder.
2. Double-click `Start OpenSquilla.cmd` from the extracted folder.
Keep the terminal window open. Closing it stops the gateway.
3. Complete onboarding and open the Web UI.
The launcher opens onboarding before the gateway starts. On first run, choose
a provider and paste the requested keys; later starts let you review or change
the config. Then open <http://127.0.0.1:18790/control/>.
<details>
<summary>Advanced portable usage</summary>
Use these options only when you want scripted setup or portable CLI commands.
- To provide an OpenRouter key before first start:
```powershell
$env:OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-..."
Set-ExecutionPo
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Token-efficient microkernel AI agent with smart routing, persistent memory, sandbox, and 20+ LLM provider support under a unified TurnRunner.",
"stack": ["Python", "OpenRouter", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Ollama", "MCP", "FastAPI"],
"why_mike_cares": "Direct overlap with OpenClaw ecosystem (topic tag confirms it), agent skills, MCP, memory layers, and multi-provider routing Mike already runs across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and DeepSeek.",
"verdict": "check-it-out",
"verdict_reason": "OpenClaw-tagged agent framework with skills, MCP, memory, and provider abstraction maps 1:1 onto Mike's active OpenClaw VPS/Mac fleet and Hindsight memory work."
}
May 17, 12:28 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: HermannBjorgvin/Clawdmeter
Stars: 1108
Language: C
Topics:
Description: ESP32 desk dashboard that shows Claude Code usage
README (first 3000 chars):
Analyze this repo per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is":"ESP32-based physical desk dashboard that displays real-time Claude Code usage stats on a small hardware display.","stack":["ESP32","C","Claude Code","Arduino"],"why_mike_cares":"Mike runs Claude Code as his primary agent across multiple machines and tracks usage/token spend obsessively, a physical desk monitor for Claude usage fits his ClawControl/observability obsession.","verdict":"worth-knowing","verdict_reason":"Novel hardware angle on Claude Code observability that complements his existing dashboards, but it's a hobby ESP32 build not core to his Next.js/agent stack."}
May 17, 12:27 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: yetone/native-feel-skill
Stars: 1254
Language:
Topics:
Description: An Agent Skill for designing cross-platform desktop apps that feel native β distilled from Raycast's 2.0 deep-dive and reverse engineering of Raycast Beta.app. Eight architectural tenets, four-layer architecture, WebKit/WebView2 survival guide, 75-item ship audit.
README (first 3000 chars):
Analyze this repo per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"what_it_is":"An Agent Skill that teaches Claude/agents how to design cross-platform desktop apps that feel truly native, distilled from Raycast 2.0 reverse engineering with 8 architectural tenets, a 4-layer architecture, and a 75-item ship audit.","stack":["Agent Skills","Claude Code","WebKit","WebView2","Cross-platform desktop"],"why_mike_cares":"Mike lives in the Agent Skills ecosystem and routinely ships Electron/WebView-style dashboards (ClawControl, HawkeyePanel, Hermes MCC), so a battle-tested skill for native-feel desktop UX plugs directly into his stack.","verdict":"check-it-out","verdict_reason":"High-signal Agent Skill with 1.2k stars that upgrades any of Mike's desktop/dashboard builds and slots straight into his Claude Code skill library."}
May 17, 12:27 PM
[USER]
You are an expert technical analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to evaluate GitHub repositories and extract structured signal.
Mike's domains: AI agents, LLM tooling, Claude Code, MCP servers, prompt engineering, SEO automation,
GoHighLevel, Next.js, ShadCN, Vercel, Supabase, voice AI, agentic coding, Discord/Telegram bots,
scheduler/cron patterns, Python automation, TypeScript.
Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
"what_it_is": "one sentence plain English description",
"stack": ["Technology1", "Technology2"],
"why_mike_cares": "one sentence on overlap with Mike's work, or 'Low overlap'",
"verdict": "check-it-out" | "worth-knowing" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence"
}
Verdict:
- "check-it-out": direct overlap with Mike's active projects or tools he uses
- "worth-knowing": interesting adjacent tool, may matter later
- "skip": no clear overlap
Be OPINIONATED. Not neutral.
Repo: vercel-labs/zero
Stars: 1300
Language: C
Topics:
Description: The programming language for agents
README (first 3000 chars):
Analyze this repo per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{
"what_it_is": "Vercel Labs' experimental programming language designed specifically for building AI agents.",
"stack": ["C", "DSL", "Agent Runtime"],
"why_mike_cares": "Mike builds agentic systems daily (Claude Code, Oliver, Carlos, OpenClaw) and a Vercel-backed agent DSL could shape how agent orchestration is written.",
"verdict": "worth-knowing",
"verdict_reason": "Early-stage agent language from Vercel Labs with no clear production fit yet, but worth tracking since Mike's stack is Vercel-heavy and agent-first."
}
May 17, 12:26 PM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: The Next New Thing AI
Video title: TradingAgents: AI Agents Are Changing Finance
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Trading agents. This is
a tool that helps people trade. This guy
used it and he showed how it analyzed
Nvidia. It told him that from lots of
different directions, lots of different
user profiles, and it ended up with a
target of 268. And then he looked up how
much Nvidia was at the time that he did
it, and it was 199. This is basically a
trend that we're seeing, right? AI is
coming for finance. People are thinking
that they could use it to make better
investment decisions. Smart, useful.
What?
>> Yeah, I think I think it's interesting.
You know, AI is very good at creating
models. We do that at our studio all the
time for our businesses.
>> The big value I see in this is you've
got research that you can use, whether
or not you decide to to invest in this.
Download it in the link in the bio.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["TradingAgents is a multi-agent AI system that analyzes stocks from multiple perspectives/user profiles to generate price targets (demo showed NVDA target of $268 when price was $199)","Pitched as AI-driven finance research tool, not a trading executor β outputs reasoning and targets you can act on or ignore","Channel framing is promotional/affiliate-style (download in bio), so treat the NVDA hit as anecdote not validation","No technical depth on the agent architecture, prompts, or how the user profiles are constructed","Outside Mike's domain stack β no overlap with agency, SEO, local, or agentic coding workflows"],"tools":[{"name":"TradingAgents","url":"https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents","description":"Multi-agent LLM framework that simulates a trading firm (analysts, researchers, traders) to produce stock analysis and price targets"}],"skill_candidates":[],"verdict":"skip","verdict_reason":"Finance/trading agent demo with no Mike-domain overlap, no novel agent pattern disclosed, and promotional framing β zero actionable takeaway for the agency stack."}
May 17, 11:12 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: The Next New Thing AI
Video title: Look up anyone across 3,000 sites β for FREE | Maigret
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Dude, this is going to look anyone up
across 3,000 sites. Facebook, Instagram,
GitHub. Just basically if you want to
stalk somebody, that's what it's for.
What's a What's a good use of this?
>> a That's a negative spin on it, you
know? The a lot of people in your
audience and our like studio businesses.
Look, we're trying to find leads. We're
trying to find sales leads. We're trying
to find talent. We're trying to
understand people and I would much
rather deeply understand a person before
I reach out to them to sell them
something or to hire them. So, we do
this already, but honestly, we do
compared to this what looks like a
terrible tiny version of it. We're
scraping, you know, LinkedIn, Twitter,
Reddit. So, I'm very curious to try this
out to basically enrich our lead at a
higher level. I'm curious how expensive
it will be.
>> It looks like a lot of AI's going to
have to run to scrape all these things,
but I Absolutely, I will try this this
week. I get it. So, you're saying,
"Look, we're thinking of investing in
someone or hiring someone. I'm already
looking them up on LinkedIn. That's the
baby version of this. I want the the
bigger thing. What are they doing on
GitHub? What did they post on Reddit?
Let's really understand the person not
for nefarious reasons." Okay, fair.
Great great tool here. Download it in
the link in the bio.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:12 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: New 0GM-1.0-35B-A3B AI Agent is INSANE! π€―
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
ZojiM 1.035 BA3B's insane. And most
people have no idea this just dropped.
This is one of those releases that looks
quiet on the surface. No massive PR
campaign, no big influencer push, but
when you actually read what's under the
hood, it hits different. So, let's get
into it. Zoji Labs just released their
first ever proprietary AI model. It's
called ZojiM 1.035B
A3B. And the thing that makes it wild is
not just the model itself. It's the
whole story behind how it was built,
what it was built for, and what it means
for where AI is going. Here's the quick
version.
Parameters. Around 3 billion active at
any given time. Context window of
262,000 tokens, extendable up to 1
million. Built for agents, tool use, and
long reasoning chains, and open sourced
under Apache 2.0, meaning you can use
it, fine-tune it, build products with
it, and run it yourself. No
restrictions. Hey, if we haven't met
already, I'm the digital avatar of
Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie
Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get
more leads and customers, I'm here to
help you get the latest AI updates. And
Julian Goldie reads every comment, so
make sure you comment below. Here's the
thing nobody's really talking about. It
was trained on a decentralized GPU
network. Not AWS, not Google Cloud, not
some massive centralized AI data center
in Silicon Valley. The actual training
of this model happened across
decentralized GPUs, Zoji's own compute
network, and then it was deployed on
their own infrastructure. And now it
runs in their private computer platform.
The whole loop is closed. Trained here,
served here, and here. That's genuinely
new. Most AI models in the Web3 space
are just regular models from OpenAI or
one of the big labs wrapped in token
economics. The chain handles payment.
The actual intelligence still lives
inside one company's server.
It's different. The intelligence layer
itself runs on decentralized
infrastructure. Now, let me explain the
technical side simply, because the
architecture is what makes this actually
useful. Uses something called mixture of
experts. For short. Here's the simple
version. Imagine a company with 256
specialists. Every time a task comes in,
instead of waking up all 256 people, the
system picks the eight or nine most
relevan
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:11 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: Grok Build AI is WILD: Automate ANYTHING!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Grok Build AI is wild, automate
anything. Grok Build AI is wild, and by
the end of this you're going to see
exactly why XAI just flipped the script
on how people build things with AI. So,
here's what this actually is. Grok Build
is XAI's new agentic CLI tool. Type
commands into a terminal, that black
window on your computer, and what Grok
Build does inside that terminal is
insane. Doesn't just write code, plans,
builds, runs, fixes its own mistakes,
loops until the job is done. You give it
a goal and it figures out how to get
there. That's different from what we've
had before. State AI coding tools sit
next to you, suggest things, you still
do the work. Grok Build actually does
the work. You're more like the person
giving the brief, and Grok Build is the
one actually building. And here's the
part that makes this relevant to you
even if you've never touched a terminal
in your life. This thing can automate
workflows, real ones, not toy examples,
full sequences of tasks that used to
take hours, or that you'd have to hire
someone to do. Let me break down how it
actually works because this is where it
gets interesting. Grok Build runs on
Grok 3. That's XAI's most powerful model
right now. And the way it's built, it
runs in what's called an agentic loop.
That means it doesn't just answer once
and stop. It acts, checks the result,
decides what to do next, acts again. It
keeps going until it hits the goal you
gave it, or until it hits a wall and
asks you what you want to do. It has
access to your file system. It can read
your files, write new ones, edit
existing ones, run terminal commands on
your machine, search the web, external
APIs, and it does all of this with what
XAI calls a minimal footprint. It asks
for permission before doing anything
big. Terrified it's going to delete
everything, it checks in. That's a
really important design choice because a
lot of people are nervous about giving
AI this kind of access.
Guardrails that keep you in the loop
without slowing the whole thing down.
Here's a real example of what this looks
like in practice.
A community, like let's use the AI
Profit Boardroom as the example because
it's a real business that does real
things. You want to build an automated
onboarding sequence. Member joins, gets
a we
[ASSISTANT]
{
"tldr": [
"xAI shipped Grok Build β an agentic CLI that plans, writes, runs, and self-corrects code in a loop until the goal is hit, with permission gates before destructive actions.",
"Runs on Grok 3 with filesystem access, terminal exec, web search, and external API calls β positioned as a direct competitor to Claude Code and Codex CLI.",
"Available via xAI API, so it can be piped into existing automation stacks instead of living only in a terminal window.",
"Use cases pitched: community onboarding workflows, content repurposing pipelines (blog β Twitter/LinkedIn/email), automated client reporting, CRM inactive-lead flagging.",
"Heavy AI Profit Boardroom upsell β the playbook content itself is thin; the real signal is 'another agentic CLI exists, evaluate vs Claude Code.'"
],
"tools": [
{
"name": "Grok Build",
"url": "https://x.ai",
"description": "xAI's agentic CLI tool running on Grok 3 β plans, codes, executes, self-corrects in a loop with filesystem and terminal access."
}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{
"slug": "agentic-cli-comparison",
"description": "Side-by-side eval framework for agentic CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build) β same task, same repo, scored on completion rate, reliability, cost, permission model."
}
],
"verdict": "worth-a-skim",
"verdict_reason": "New agentic CLI in Mike's exact lane (Claude Code competitor) is worth knowing exists, but the video is a thin product announcement wrapped in a community upsell with no novel patterns or hands-on depth."
}
May 17, 11:10 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: Claude Opus 4.7 + NotebookLM is INSANE!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Claude Opus 4.7 plus notebook LM is
insane. Today I'm going to show you a
brand new SEO workflow that's blowing up
right now. I'll show you how to use
Claude Opus 4.7 with notebook LM to
build a full SEO system in three
prompts. Most people are doing SEO the
hard way.
Won't. Let's go. So, here's the deal.
Most people think AI is just a chatbot.
Type a question. Get an answer. That's
it. But the real power isn't in one
tool. It's in chaining two tools
together. And that's exactly what we're
doing today. Claude Opus 4.7 is
Anthropic's newest model. It's better at
long tasks. It follows instructions more
carefully. And it even checks its own
work before it answers you. That last
part is huge. Because when you're doing
SEO work, you don't want the AI
guessing. You want the AI thinking.
Notebook LM is Google's research tool.
You upload your stuff into it. PDFs,
posts, articles, whatever. And it reads
everything. Then it answers based on
what you gave it. Doesn't make stuff up.
It pulls from your sources. That's why
SEO people are obsessed with it right
now. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm
the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO
of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's
helping clients get more leads and
customers, I'm here to help you get the
latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads
every comment, so make sure you comment
below. Here's where it gets fun. When
you connect these two tools, you
basically build a mini SEO team. One AI
does the deep thinking. The other AI
organizes everything. Together, they can
build out a full content plan in
minutes, not days. Minutes. Let me show
you how this works for a real business.
I'll use my own community as the
example, the AI Profit Boardroom. That
way you can copy exactly what I'm doing
for your business, too. Step one. Open
Claude Opus 4.7. Going to do the
research first. This is the brain work.
Here's the prompt I use. Research the
best SEO strategy for an AI automation
community called the AI Profit
Boardroom. Look at what people are
searching for. Find keyword gaps. Find
content angles. And what competitors are
missing. And give me a list of 20 blog
post ideas that would rank fast and
bring in real members. I hit enter and
watch what happens. Claude Opus 4.7 will
start thinking. It plans th
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:10 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: Hermes Agent Just Did Something That Scared Me
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Hermes agent just got a massive upgrade
and when you combine it with Gro OS,
your AI agent becomes one of the most
powerful setups on the planet right now.
We're talking about real time Twitter
search, image generation, video
generation, voice, all inside one
system. And if you're already on X, this
is actually free with your subscription
already. And here's the thing most
people don't realize yet. This isn't
just another update. This is your AI
agent finally getting eyes, ears, and a
voice all at the same time. Now, in this
video, I'm going to show you how to step
by step plug Grock directly into Hermes
agent so it can search the internet in
real time. It can create images and
videos on demand and talk back to you
out loud. And I'm going to show you the
one thing you absolutely have to set up
after you connect these two together
because without it, you're leaving most
of the power on the table. So stick with
me to the end because by the time we're
done, your Hermes agent is going to be
running on a completely different level.
Let's get into it. So today we're going
to be talking about how to use the new
update from Grock inside Hermes agent.
This creates and unlocks some really
powerful features. And basically what's
happened here is you can now use X
directly with your subscription inside
Hermes agent. Right? So this means for
example you can use this for searching
X, you can use it to generate images,
you can use it for video generation and
you can also use Hermes agent with Grock
for voice too. So this unlocks a whole
new bunch of powerful features that I'm
going to cover with you today and show
you exactly how to use it directly. It's
a brand new update that makes Hermes
agent way more powerful than ever
before. So what you can see here is I've
actually plugged this into my agent OS
link in the comments in description if
you want to get this and you can see
that we are using gro 4.3 with grock
oorth inside Hermes agent right super
easy to add now anytime I update the
model it will plug straight into the
operating system that we have right here
so now I can use Hermes agent to for
example generate images or generate
videos. So let's test this out. I'm
going to say, okay, search X for
trending AI automation news. We'll plu
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Julian shows how to swap the model inside 'Hermes agent' (his branded CLI wrapper) to xAI Grok 4.3 via `hermes model` so X subscribers get Grok search/image/video/voice with no extra cost","Workflow: run `hermes update` first, then `hermes model` β select X AI Grok, log in via browser popup, then enable `X search` inside `hermes tools` (spacebar to toggle)","Hermes didn't natively know how to call Grok's X search until he pasted Grok/X docs into the agent and trained it on the endpoint β classic 'feed the docs' pattern","Pitched as plug-and-play real-time Twitter/X search + multimodal gen inside one CLI agent, gated behind an X Premium sub","Heavy affiliate-flavored demo (Agent OS link in description); actual novel technical content is thin"],"tools":[],"skill_candidates":[],"verdict":"skip","verdict_reason":"Affiliate-driven demo of a branded CLI wrapper with no verifiable URLs, no new tool Mike doesn't have, and the only real pattern (paste docs to teach an agent a new API) is already standard practice in his stack."}
May 17, 11:09 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: NEW Googlebook AI changes everything!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
New Google Book, AI changes everything,
and I mean that literally. Google just
built a laptop where Gemini isn't a tab
you open. It's not a button you press.
It's running in the background, watching
your screen, understanding your context,
and ready to help before you even ask.
This is the Google Book, and it's a
completely different kind of machine.
Let me break down what's actually going
on here, what this thing can do, and why
it matters for how you work every single
day. Here's the thing about every AI
laptop that came before this. They were
normal laptops with an AI assistant
bolted on. You'd open a chat box, type a
question, get an answer, close it, go
back to work. The AI had no idea what
was on your screen, had no idea what you
were doing. It was completely
disconnected from your actual workflow.
Google Book breaks that pattern
completely. Gemini on the Google Book
has what Google calls always-on context
awareness. That means it sees your
screen, understands what you're working
on, and it can help you with the exact
thing you're doing right now without you
explaining anything. You're writing an
email and you need to find something you
said in a meeting last week. Gemini
finds it. You're on a call and someone
mentions a company. Gemini pulls up the
info. You're working in a Google Doc and
you want to rewrite a section. Gemini
does it inside the Doc. No copy-paste,
switching tabs, no explaining yourself.
This is what AI-native actually means.
The AI is built into the operating layer
of the machine. It's not an app, it's
the environment. Now, here's where it
gets really interesting. Gemini on the
Google Book isn't just reactive, it's
proactive. Google has built what they're
calling an ambient intelligence layer.
So, as you work, Gemini is quietly
learning your patterns, what you work
on, when, how you like things
structured, and it starts surfacing
suggestions before you even know you
need them. Think about what that means
in a real work context. You open your
laptop Monday morning. Gemini already
knows you have a client meeting at 10.
It's pulled the relevant emails, the
last meeting notes, and the shared doc
you were both working on. Summarized the
key points. It's drafted three agenda
items based on what's been discussed
befor
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:09 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: Hermes Agent 3.0 is INSANE!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Hermes Agent 3.0 is insane. The AI agent
that actually finishes what it starts.
What if the AI agent you've been using
this whole time was never actually
finishing your work? What if every time
you stepped away and came back to a task
complete message, the agent had quietly
given up halfway through? What if the
reason your automation keeps failing
isn't the model, it's the framework
underneath? And what if there's a free
open-source agent that just fixed all of
that and almost nobody is talking about
it? Hey, I'm the digital avatar of
Julian Goldie. I help people learn and
actually use AI tools in their work.
Today, we're breaking down Hermes Agent
version 0.13, the Tenacity release. I'm
going to walk you through what it is,
what's new, how to install it step by
step, and my top pro tips for beginners.
Let's get into it. So, first, what is
Hermes Agent? Hermes Agent is a free
open-source self-improving AI agent
built by news research. Most agents are
session tools. You open them, give them
a task, close them. Next time you open
them, they've forgotten everything. You
start over every single time. Hermes
runs the opposite way. It runs
persistently. It remembers what it's
done. It builds skills from experience
and reuses them. And it talks to you
through whatever messaging platform you
already use, Telegram, Discord,
WhatsApp, Slack, and now Google Chat.
The core idea is simple. The longer
Hermes runs, the better it gets. After a
workflow involving five or more tool
calls, Hermes automatically saves a
reusable skill file. Next time a similar
task comes up, it loads that skill and
skips the discovery work. It also
supports scheduled automations through a
built-in cron system, spawns isolated
sub aents for parallel work streams, and
has full web control, search, extract,
browse, vision, image generation, and
text to speech. It connects to any MCP
server for extended tool capabilities.
You can run it on a VPS, a GPU cluster,
or serverless infrastructure. It's not
tied to your laptop, talk to it from
Telegram while it works on a cloud
machine. And it works with any model.
Now's portal open router with 200 plus
models, OpenAI, Anthropic, or your own
endpoint. Switch with Hermes model. No
code changes, no lockin. Hermes launched
February 25th, 2026. By
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May 17, 11:08 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: OpenClaw 5.16: What You Need To Knowβ¦
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Open 5.16 just showed up on GitHub as a
pre-release beta. And there are two
things in this update that make your AI
agents way more useful. First of all,
your agent can now use Grock without an
API key. If you have a super Grock
subscription, you just log in. No extra
cost, no developer portal. Your agent
gets full access to Grock through your
existing subscription. This is a big
thing that's just been released inside
Heromus Agent. It's a bit of a game
changer. Second, your Telegram agent can
now sit inside a group chat, listen to
every single message, and stay
completely quiet until you tell it to
speak. It reads the room. It builds
context. And when someone finally asks a
question, the answer is 10 times better
because it already knows what everyone
else has been talking about. I'm going
to walk you through everything in this
update, why it saves you time, and the
one setup that turns all of this into a
full AI operating system you control
from one screen. Let's get into it. So,
let's start with Grock because this one
helps you save cost straight away. Right
now, if you want your OpenClaw agent to
use XAI's Grock, you need an API key.
That means going to XAI's developer
site, add in a card, buy an API credits,
and if you're paying for your Super GRUP
subscription, and then paying again for
API access, well, that's two bills for
the same AI. OpenClaw 5.6 aims to fix
that. If you have a Super Grock
subscription, you just log in with your
account. Your agent uses Grock through
your subscription. There's no API key,
no extra bills. Just log in and go.
Grock has been getting really good,
especially for finding up-to-ate
information, creating videos, creating
images, and now your agent will be able
to use all of that through your existing
subscription. When this drops, one login
and you're done, right? So, this is in
the pre-release that's coming from 5.16
inside Open Claw. Now, if you've been
paying for Super Grock, but only using
it on the website, well, this is a big
deal, right? Your OpenClaw agent now has
access to everything Grock can do for
free because you're already paying for
it. Now, the Telegram feature. This one
is going to save you a lot of time if
you run group chats. Right now, your
agent in a Telegram group has two
optio
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:07 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Julian Goldie SEO
Video title: Hermes Agent: Free AI SEO agent is wildβ¦
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Hermes agent OS is the fastest way to
get more customers from Google right
now. That means more leads, more people
finding you, more sales without a
content team, without doing it manually,
without any technical experience. And
sites using this system have gone from
zero to over a thousand new visitors a
day from Google. I'll show you proof
later. Others are showing up inside chat
GPT inside Perplexi and ranking inside
Google AI overviews getting in front of
customers everywhere people search. And
here's what makes this different from
every other AI SEO method you've ever
seen. The content it creates isn't
generic. It's built around your
business, your data, your case studies.
So it actually ranks because Google
rewards original content. And this is as
original as it gets. When I show you the
system, all you do is you give it a
keyword, walk away, come back to
published, index, live content, pulling
in new customers, and in this video,
you're going to see exactly how it
works. The whole system live on screen
with real results, actual proven case
studies and methods showing you how this
works. So, stick with me to the end
because there's one thing most people
skip setting this up when it comes to
Hermes agent AI SEO. It's the exact
reason their content never actually
converts. So, get that part right and
everything changes. I'll show you how
later. Let's get into it. Today, I'm
going to show you how to rank number one
with Hermes AI AgentOS. So, an operating
system for using SEO. And this is super
powerful. And the other cool thing about
this is you can use it for free because
I'll show you a way to use Hermes for
free in a second. So, this is a really
powerful system where you can basically
generate content and deploy it. Here's a
couple of examples of articles that
we've created recently targeting our
keyword which was Hermes agent OS inside
the content. We created a full blog post
as you see right here. It's like
beautifully organized setup for
conversions. And basically what I do is
I give it a keyword. I tell it what I
want it to create the actual AI agent
and using this operating system it will
go off and start creating the content
directly for me. Basically, you see here
it's added internal links, external
links, and created
[ASSISTANT]
{
"tldr": [
"Julian Goldie pitches 'Hermes Agent OS' as a Claude-built SEO agent system that takes a keyword, generates branded content with case studies, deploys to your site, and ranks in Google + AI Overviews + Perplexity + ChatGPT.",
"Claims case study sites going 0 to 1,134 clicks/day and outranking Hermes' official site for the target keyword using agentic SEO + uniqueness via your own data/case studies.",
"The 'system' is essentially Claude + Open Claw + a mission control dashboard managing skills (goals, journal, memory) and SEO content agents β built with Claude itself, not a standalone product.",
"Real takeaway: gated lead-magnet funnel for his 'AI Profit Boardroom' β the actual prompts/setup are behind a paid community, not given in the video.",
"Naming collision risk for Mike: Julian's 'Hermes Agent OS' has nothing to do with Mike's Hermes Mission Control / MCC project."
],
"tools": [],
"skill_candidates": [],
"verdict": "skip",
"verdict_reason": "Pure lead-magnet promo with no novel pattern, no real tool URLs, and no technique Mike isn't already doing 10x deeper with his own SEO agent fleet (Einstein/Tommy/Ghost/Shakespeare) and Hermes MCC."
}
May 17, 11:07 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Income stream surfers
Video title: RIP: Claude Opus 4.7 + Claude Code Just Had a WORLDWIDE Outage
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Hey guys, welcome to this video. Going
to be a quick one today, but basically
Claude is down again, as you can see
right here.
It looks like it's just not working at
all, at least for me. Anyway, I'm
getting this error that you can see
right here. Yes, I'm playing RuneScape
at the same time.
But uh API error 500 internal error.
This is a server side issue, usually
temporary. Try again in a moment. If it
persists, check claude.us
status.claude.com.
So, I went here and I had a little look
and apparently it was also down on the
15th. Error elevated error rates on
requests to some models. So, basically
guys, I would say as an alternative, you
have the Codex uh app. So, yeah,
basically guys, I thought I would talk
basically about the alternatives that we
have in today's video. So, I'm going to
do something a little bit meta here. I'm
actually going to use um
Codex to create a thumbnail for this
video. So, Claude is down right now. Can
you use my thumbnail
thumbnail skill to make a thumbnail
about the fact that Claude is down. Uh
worldwide outage.
Okay, so yeah, let's talk about the
other alternatives that you have, right?
If you don't want to use Codex, I would
say Codex is your number one.
Right, so this is 5.5. I use I would
recommend using this on low just because
it does take a hell of a long time
if you're not on low, right?
So, we have we cannot use Opus 4.7 right
now. Okay, so Kimmy 2.6, definitely a
good alternative um inside Kimmy code.
Again, I'm not talking about like is
this as good as Opus 4.7? No, it's not.
But, if you're going to be using uh a
model today and you actually want to get
something done, Kimmy code, definitely a
good alternative. These models here,
Deep Seek,
Quen 3.6, Mimo inside Open code would
also be a very very good
way to do this. Open code is free open
source to use. All you have to do is pay
for the gas the
the AI models basically, right? The
benzina, the petrol. I forgot the word
in my head then, so I only knew the
Italian word.
Looks like they actually have a desktop
app now, which is really really nice. I
haven't used this yet, but I will
definitely give this a test. Let's
actually just download this um
download this now. So, I'm on Apple
silicon, I think. So, there we go.
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:06 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: In The World of AI
Video title: Stop Paying $200/Month for Claude Code! Here's a FREE Option!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
We all know claude code and its powerful
agent capabilities right inside your
terminal. With all the recent hype
around it, many developers have been
searching for cheaper or even free
alternatives that delivers similar
results. Today, I found one that's truly
impressive. Aentic efficient in code
generation that's open- source and
partially free. It's from the Mistrol
team who's also sponsoring today's video
and it's called Mistral Vibe. This is
something that launched recently and
it's already shaping up to be a gamecher
in AI assisted development. But what is
Misal Vibe? Well, it's a terminal native
AI coding agent that is like open code
and cloud code capable of writing,
testing, refactoring your code, and even
deploying your code all from the command
line. It supports async tasks. It
integrates with tools like GitHub, Jira,
Slack, and Genkins, and comes with
customizable agent workflows to automate
long running tasks. For example, take a
look at how it can document shell
aliases with the Mistro 5 tool. This is
where it's capable of reading your DOT
files, understanding what each alias
does, and generating clean structure
documentation automatically. You can
point it at your aliases and explain
each command purpose. It filters out
highly specific scripts and shows how to
install them via the Zshrc
or the alias file. You can even create
custom sub agents in Mistral Vibe,
letting you build specialized agents to
deploy scripts, PR reviews, test
generations, or even repeatable
workflows and invoke them on demand with
a single command. Sub agents inherit
project context while focusing on your
domain. It is something that can enable
composable automation that scales with
your team and your developer workflow.
You even have multi-choice clarification
that gives you control when Vibe isn't
sure what to do next. Instead of
guessing, it surfaces multiple options
so you can pick the path that matches
your intent. This means safer automation
and sharper outcomes. And finally with
slash command skills. This makes
repeated tasks faster because with
mistrol vibe CLI it supports
preconfigured workflows that you can
access with a single keystroke. You
simply use the slash command to deploy
lint generate docs or even have it
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Mistral launched Mistral Vibe, a free open-source terminal-native AI coding agent positioned as a Claude Code alternative","Ships with sub-agents, slash command skills, multi-choice clarification prompts, and integrations for GitHub/Jira/Slack/Jenkins","Powered by Devstral (codegen), Codestral (context), and Codestral Embed (semantic search) β bring your own API key or use free tier","Paid Le Chat Pro at $14.99/mo unlocks higher usage; Team plan $24.99/seat; 50% student discount","Install via curl/bash or Python, plus VS Code and JetBrains extensions with tab completion"],"tools":[{"name":"Mistral Vibe CLI","url":"https://chat.mistral.ai","description":"Free open-source terminal AI coding agent from Mistral, Claude Code alternative with sub-agents and slash skills"}],"skill_candidates":[{"slug":"mistral-vibe-cli","description":"Install, auth, and operate Mistral Vibe CLI as a fallback/secondary coding agent alongside Claude Code with sub-agents and slash skills"}],"verdict":"worth-a-skim","verdict_reason":"New Claude Code competitor worth knowing about for agentic coding lane, but it's a tool announcement video with no novel patterns and Mike already runs Claude Code + Codex as his primary coding agents."}
May 17, 11:05 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Eric W Tech
Video title: How I Convert NotebookLM Slides into Editable PPT with OCR | NotebookLM + PDNob AI
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
You just spent time building a clean
slide deck from your research in
Notebook LM. The sources are organized,
the points make sense, the structure is
ready. Then you export or save that work
as a PDF, open it later, and realize the
real problem. It looks like a
presentation, but it does not behave
like one. You try to click on the title,
nothing. You try to select a paragraph,
it selects the whole page, or it does
not select cleanly. You try copying the
text into PowerPoint and the formatting
falls apart. Images are locked in place,
bullet points lose their spacing. Now,
instead of editing a presentation, you
are basically rebuilding the whole thing
from scratch. That is the workflow we
are fixing today. In this video, I will
show you how to take a Notebook LM PDF
slide file and convert it into an
editable PowerPoint using Tenorshare PD
Nob 2.0. We will go step-by-step. Open
the PDF, run OCR if the content is
locked, convert it to PowerPoint, and
then check the final PPT file so you can
see what is editable. Let me show you
what I mean. Here is a Notebook LM PDF I
exported earlier. This is a simple slide
deck based on research notes. It looks
fine when I scroll through it. The
layout is clean, the titles are
readable, the images and sections are
already in place. But the problem starts
when I actually need to change
something. Watch what happens when I try
to edit this title. I cannot just click
into it like a normal PowerPoint text
box. And if I try to copy the slide
content manually, I am probably going to
lose the formatting. That means more
cleanup, more resizing, and more time
spent doing work that should already be
done. So the goal is simple. I want this
PDF to become a real PowerPoint file. I
want text I can edit, I want images I
can move. That is where PD Nob comes in.
This is Tenorshare PD Nob 2.0. It is a
PDF editor built for editing,
converting, OCR, compression,
annotation, and working with PDFs in a
more practical way. For this workflow,
the two features that matter most are
OCR and PDF to PowerPoint conversion.
OCR is what helps when the PDF content
is image based or scanned. It detects
the text inside the PDF and turns it
into something the software can work
with. Then the convers
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Tenorshare PDNob 2.0 converts NotebookLM-exported PDF slide decks into editable PowerPoint files via OCR + PDF-to-PPTX export","Workflow: open PDF in PDNob, run OCR if text is image-locked, convert to PPTX, then edit in PowerPoint instead of rebuilding from scratch","OCR step is the unlock β it's what makes locked NotebookLM slide text selectable and editable post-conversion","Layout/slide order/images are mostly preserved, so cleanup is minor vs starting over","Affiliate-style walkthrough for a single commercial PDF editor β not a novel pattern or agent workflow"],"tools":[{"name":"Tenorshare PDNob 2.0","url":"https://pdnob.tenorshare.com","description":"Commercial PDF editor with OCR and PDF-to-PowerPoint conversion"},{"name":"NotebookLM","url":"https://notebooklm.google.com","description":"Google's research/notes tool that can export slide-style PDFs"}],"skill_candidates":[],"verdict":"skip","verdict_reason":"Sponsored walkthrough of a consumer PDF-to-PPT converter β zero overlap with Mike's agent/SEO/automation domains and no reusable pattern worth extracting."}
May 17, 11:05 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: DIY Smart Code
Video title: Anthropic just shifted the entire AWS landscape #ai #aws #trending
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Every AWS dev shipping with Claude knows
this pain.
Bedrock gets the new features a week
late.
But today, that leg is gone. Anthropic
just shipped the full Claude platform on
AWS.
Generally available today. And here's
the part most people will miss.
This is not Bedrock with a new name.
Bedrock is the data resident subset.
Platform on AWS is the full native ASPI.
Day zero. Which means the entire beta
service lands on AWS today.
Managed agents, advisors, skills, files,
MCP connector.
Code execution, web search, and the
Claude console on AWS for the first
time.
The prompt improver, the generator, the
evils UE.
And here's how it ships through your AWS
account.
The endpoint runs on AWS external
anthropic.region.api.aws.
Auth is through identity access
management.
Every call is a CloudTrail event.
Billing rides on AWS marketplace,
retiring against your existing
commitment.
Plus, it's available in 18 AWS regions
at GA.
That's broader than most Claude routes
at launch.
Three named customers are already
shipping on it.
ReliaQuest in cybersecurity. Open router
routing through AWS identity access
management.
And Emergent with day one access to
every new model.
So, when do you pick which? If you want
every beta from day one, that's platform
on AWS.
If your data must stay inside AWS,
that's Bedrock.
The version leg is over.
Is this the end of Bedrock for new
agents?
Tell me in the comments. Subscribe for
more AI news.
If you want to learn more about AI,
check out the dynamis.ai community.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Anthropic shipped the full Claude platform natively on AWS (not just Bedrock) β every beta feature lands day zero","Includes managed agents, Skills, Files, MCP connector, code execution, web search, and the Claude console on AWS","Auth via IAM, logging via CloudTrail, billing via AWS Marketplace (burns down existing AWS commit)","Available in 18 AWS regions at GA β broader than most Claude launches","Decision rule: use Platform on AWS for day-zero features, stick with Bedrock only if data must stay inside AWS"],"tools":[{"name":"Claude Platform on AWS","url":"https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace","description":"Full native Anthropic API on AWS with day-zero feature parity, IAM auth, CloudTrail logging"},{"name":"Dynamis.ai","url":"https://dynamis.ai","description":"AI learning community plugged at end of video"}],"skill_candidates":[],"verdict":"worth-a-skim","verdict_reason":"Relevant AWS/Claude news with a clean decision rule (Platform vs Bedrock), but Mike runs on Vercel/Supabase not AWS, so no immediate action β just useful context if a client ever demands AWS-resident Claude."}
May 17, 11:04 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: DIY Smart Code
Video title: Ripgrep Just Made Claude Code Search 10x Faster #ClaudeCode #Shorts
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
14 features, 80 fixes, 20 improvements,
four Claude code releases dropped in 4
days.
Here is what actually shipped. First,
the built-in grep tool is now Ripgrep.
Searching your code base just got
faster, more accurate, and consistent
across every operating system.
Second, the Claude agents command picks
up a serious flag pack.
Add dir, settings, MCP config, plugin
dir, and permission mode.
Pin a sub agent to exactly the tools and
rules you want.
Third, the plugin marketplace finally
shows per turn token cost estimates.
You see the price tag before you
install.
No more guessing what a plugin will cost
you.
Fourth, the rewind menu adds summarize
up to here.
Compress the old turns, keep the recent
ones.
Long sessions stop bleeding tokens.
Fifth,
hooks now emit terminal sequences
directly from JSON output.
Notifications, window titles, even bell
acts.
No TTY required. Sixth, background
sessions finally survive a Mac going to
sleep.
The demon catches clock jumps on wake,
and your model and effort level persist
across the resume.
Ripgrep, Claude agents flags, or plugin
price tags.
Which one wins?
Drop a comment.
If you want to learn more about AI,
check out the dynamis.ai community.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Claude Code's built-in grep is now Ripgrep β faster, more accurate, OS-consistent search across your codebase","claude agents command gained --add-dir, --settings, --mcp-config, --plugin-dir, and --permission-mode flags to pin subagents to exact tools/rules","Plugin marketplace now shows per-turn token cost estimates before install β no more blind plugin spend","Rewind menu adds 'summarize up to here' to compress old turns and stop long sessions from bleeding tokens","Background sessions survive Mac sleep, hooks emit terminal sequences from JSON output (no TTY needed)"],"tools":[{"name":"Ripgrep","url":"https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep","description":"Now the default grep engine inside Claude Code for faster cross-OS code search"}],"skill_candidates":[{"slug":"claude-agents-pinned-config","description":"Pattern for pinning subagents to exact tool/rule sets using the new claude agents flag pack (--add-dir, --settings, --mcp-config, --plugin-dir, --permission-mode)"},{"slug":"claude-code-token-budget-hygiene","description":"Use rewind 'summarize up to here' plus plugin marketplace cost previews to keep long sessions and plugin loadouts under a token budget"}],"verdict":"dont-miss","verdict_reason":"Hits Mike's Claude Code + skills + MCP domains directly with shipped features he uses daily β subagent flag pinning and rewind summarize materially change how Oliver/Carlos sessions get configured."}
May 17, 11:04 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: DIY Smart Code
Video title: Mike Krieger Could Build Instagram Solo Now - The Founders Playbook 2026!
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Anthropic just published a 35-page
playbook, and the first warning is that
Claude code will help you fail fast.
Page 10. 42% of startups failed building
something nobody wanted. And the
playbook says that number is only going
to climb.
Which is why Mike Krieger, Instagram's
co-founder, said publicly he could have
built Instagram with just himself and
his co-founder using Claude today.
Krieger said it. Anthropic just made it
operational.
So, Anthropic remapped startup building
into four stages.
Idea. MVP, launch, scale. Each one has a
goal, an exit test, and a failure mode.
Idea is finding a problem worth paying
for.
MVP is proving people actually will.
Launch is going from one founder to a
small team.
And scale is when every decision still
going through, you stops being an asset
and starts being the bottleneck.
Each stage has a named killer. Idea
stage.
Mistaken building for validating. You
ship a prototype in 4 hours and call it
proof.
MVP stage.
Agentic technical debt. Skip the specs,
and every Claude session drifts the code
base further from your plan.
Launch stage. The founder becomes the
bottleneck.
Decisions that should take an hour now
take a week.
Scale stage. Delegating the operational
layer.
You built the systems, and now you have
to actually trust them.
Four stages. Four named ways to die. So,
which Claude do you reach for first?
Plus, page 11 publishes a decision
table.
Three services, same brain, different
jobs.
Chat for quick exchanges, Claude co-work
for knowledge work.
Claude code for the code base. Pick
wrong, you waste hours.
Here's what running it actually looks
like.
Welkin Technologies, 4 months, three
founders.
One technical. They beat the consulting
firms to a state contract.
$11 million seed. The discipline works.
Skip the cloud.md file and every cloud
code session re-derives your decisions
from scratch.
The playbook calls 5 minutes of docs per
session cheap insurance against a code
base that collapses.
So, here's the question. Are you running
this playbook or still validating with
wipes?
Drop your stage in the comments.
And subscribe for more AI news.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Anthropic published a 35-page founder's playbook mapping startup building into 4 stages (Idea, MVP, Launch, Scale) β each with a named failure mode worth memorizing","Page 11 has a decision table for which Claude product to use when: Chat for quick exchanges, Claude co-work for knowledge work, Claude Code for the codebase","Skip the CLAUDE.md file and every Claude Code session re-derives decisions from scratch β playbook calls 5 min of docs per session 'cheap insurance' against agentic technical debt","Welkin Technologies proof point: 3 founders, 4 months, beat consulting firms to a state contract and raised $11M seed using this discipline","Named killers per stage: idea=mistaking building for validating, MVP=agentic tech debt, launch=founder bottleneck, scale=failing to trust delegated systems"],"tools":[{"name":"Anthropic Founder's Playbook 2026","url":"https://www.anthropic.com","description":"35-page playbook on building startups with Claude across 4 stages"},{"name":"Claude Code","url":"https://claude.com/claude-code","description":"Anthropic's agentic coding tool used as the codebase brain in the playbook"}],"skill_candidates":[{"slug":"claude-md-session-discipline","description":"Enforce 5-minute CLAUDE.md doc update per Claude Code session to prevent codebase drift and agentic tech debt across long-running projects"},{"slug":"founder-stage-diagnostic","description":"Diagnose which of the 4 startup stages (Idea/MVP/Launch/Scale) a project is in, identify the stage-specific killer, and route to the right Claude product (Chat/co-work/Code)"}],"verdict":"worth-a-skim","verdict_reason":"Surface-level summary of an Anthropic playbook Mike should read directly β the source doc is the real signal, the video is just a pointer with one useful reminder (CLAUDE.md hygiene) that Mike already practices."}
May 17, 11:03 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: DIY Smart Code
Video title: 900 stars in 24 hours β what's the catch with Zero? #vercel #programming
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Versal Labs just dropped a new
programming language. It is called Zero
and it is built for agents, not humans.
Chris Tate posted this on May 16th. By
the next morning, the repo had over 900
stars. The tagline, the programming
language for agents, a systems language
for small native tools, explicit
effects, predictable memory, and
structured compiler output. Here is what
a hello world looks like. Notice the
file extension.
dot zero numeric zero inside main. You
receive a world capability.
If you want to write to standard output,
you have to accept that world. The
function declares races, meaning it can
fail. And every side effect is prefixed
with check. So the compiler can see
exactly where you touched the outside.
Now look at this build line from the
announcement.
16 kilobytes, 1 millisecond. That is the
entire hello binary statically linked.
No runtime. Almost every command can
emit JSON. Zero check, zero run, zero
graph, zero size. Zero roots, zero
doctor. All of them speak structured
output because the audience is not a
human reading a terminal. The audience
is an agent reading a pipe. Now the
honest part, zero is experimental.
The Redmi says it directly. The language
is not stable. There is no public model
system documented yet. No published
benchmarks. The example programs are all
under 50 lines. And the compiler is a
brand new C code base with a self-hosted
rewrite already in progress. So here is
the real question. Is this a genuine new
category? A systems language built from
day zero for the way agents actually
write code or is it just go with better
error JSON in aversal hoodie? Drop your
verdict below. Real language or hype
with a dot. Zero extension. I want to
read your take.
Extract the structured JSON signal per your instructions. Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences.
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Vercel Labs dropped 'Zero' β a systems language designed for agents (not humans) with explicit effects, capabilities, and structured JSON output from every CLI command","Hello world compiles to a 16KB statically-linked binary in 1ms with no runtime β every side effect is prefixed with 'check' so the compiler tracks exactly where you touch the outside world","Repo hit 900+ GitHub stars in 24 hours (posted May 16 by Chris Tate) but is explicitly experimental: no stable spec, no module system, no benchmarks, compiler is brand new C","Every command (zero check/run/graph/size/roots/doctor) emits JSON because the consumer is an agent reading a pipe, not a human reading a terminal","Open question: genuine new agent-native language category, or Go with better error JSON in a Vercel hoodie"],"tools":[{"name":"Zero","url":"https://github.com/vercel-labs/zero","description":"Vercel Labs experimental systems language built for AI agents with explicit effects, capability-passing, and structured JSON compiler output"}],"skill_candidates":[{"slug":"agent-native-cli-output-spec","description":"Pattern for designing CLI tools where every command emits structured JSON by default so agents can consume output without parsing terminal text"}],"verdict":"worth-a-skim","verdict_reason":"Hits Mike's Vercel + agentic-coding + tool-building domains and the agent-native CLI design philosophy reinforces his CLI-first routing rule, but Zero itself is too experimental to use today β bookmark the pattern, not the language."}
May 17, 11:02 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Cole Medin
Video title: Pi is INCREDIBLE - Building a Custom Coding Agent Live
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Time to dive into Pi. This is a coding
agent. It's been around for a while now,
like at least a few months, but I've
just started to like really really pay
attention to it, especially because of
how bad the rate limits have been for
other coding agents right now. And so,
the idea behind Pi is it is a minimal
coding agent. It's made to be a coding
agent that you build on top of instead
of taking a really massive bloated tool
and trying to retrofit it to how you
like to code. So the idea here is that
we adapt PI to our workflows instead of
the other way around. And if you've been
following my channel at all, you know
that uh this is really in line with my
ethos, right? Like I am generally a fan
of building your own systems because
then you can really take control of it
and mold it and customize it to how you
like to work. And so a lot of the work
that I've been doing with Archon and
just generally teaching on harness
engineering recently, it fits really
really well with Pi. So honestly, it's
kind of crazy that I haven't covered
this more until now. So I did do one
video on my channel where I used Pi with
Archon and I showed the integration that
I built with Pi and Archon. So, if you
look at the providers that we support in
Archon, let me just go down in the read
me here. Um, goodness, there we go.
Okay, so for AI assistant clients, we
support Claude, Codeex, and Pi. So,
Archon is my open source tool that helps
you build your own harnesses. It's very
in line with PI because both are all
about, you know, create your own
process, build your own workflows and
trying instead of trying to just use
something off the shelf that can be
pretty hard to work with. Uh, and so
yeah, I'm going to do quite a few things
with Pi in our live stream today. And
I'm gonna keep the stream pretty casual
overall. I think one thing with the live
streams I've been doing the past couple
of weeks is I've been trying too hard to
like explain everything really
thoroughly as I'm doing it. And so it
makes the stream move kind of slow. So I
think my long form, you know, YouTube
content, the videos I put out, that's
where I should really be explaining
things. But here, I just want to build
live with you. So, we're going to
explore Pi. I've obviously done quite
[ASSISTANT]
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May 17, 11:02 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: Clearmud
Video title: Install Hermes Agent on Windows in 10 Minutes (COPY ME)
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
In this video, I'm going to walk you
through the steps it takes to install
Hermes agent onto a Windows-based
machine. So, without further ado, let's
build. All right, so as you can see here
on the screen, here is the main website.
It's hermes-agent.newsresearch.com.
And as you can see here, this is the
command if you want to install it on any
Mac OS or Linux-based distribution.
However, we're on Windows, so we want to
click this WSL2 to install it on
Windows. And this is going to give us
instructions on how to prep Windows to
allow that install to occur. So, I
already have PowerShell on my bar.
Alternatively, if you don't, you can
just press start, search PowerShell.
And what you want to do is right click,
select run as administrator. All right,
now for those curious, I know I'm on
Windows 10, I just prefer it. These same
exact steps will work on Windows 11. So,
what we want to do is type in
WS--install.
Click yes.
Okay, Ubuntu has been installed.
Now, we do have to reboot the system.
So, I'm just going to go ahead and
restart this
machine.
All right, so what we want to do is
select start menu, and as you can see
here, we do have Ubuntu installed. We
can just select there.
And let's go ahead and open up the
browser one more time. Go back to News
Research's website here, and we want to
grab this curl command. We're just going
to copy that there.
And let's go into Ubuntu. And this may
take a few minutes as it says here on
the screen. Let's just wait patiently.
All right, so as you can see here, looks
like it is installed.
Now, we do need to enter in a username
for the server. So, for the sake of the
demo, I'm just calling this Hermes demo.
And we're going to add in a password
here.
Wonderful.
So, installation is successful now.
Perfect. So, now what we want to do
is
paste in
Looks like this copy command doesn't
want to work natively here. So,
let's just go ahead and type it in
manually here, shall we? curl
https://hermesagent.
newsresearch.com/install.sh
and bash.
And here we go.
I'm guessing it's because I have this
actually we're accessing a Windows 10 PC
via remote desktop, so my keybinds
aren't working properly.
And sure, why not?
Now, we're going to enter in our
password that we created.
Perfect. So, now it's taking us thr
[ASSISTANT]
{"tldr":["Install Hermes Agent on Windows via WSL2 + Ubuntu, then curl the install.sh from hermes-agent.newsresearch.com","Quick setup wizard auths against OpenAI Codex (or other model providers) using device code flow","Demo connects GPT-5.5 as the controlling model β creator claims night/day difference vs 5.4 for agent work","Agent runs locally in terminal via `hermes` command after shell reload β no cloud dashboard required","No actual agent build shown β install walkthrough only, follow-up videos teased for use cases"],"tools":[{"name":"Hermes Agent","url":"https://hermes-agent.newsresearch.com","description":"Terminal-based AI agent installable on Mac/Linux/WSL2 with pluggable model backends including OpenAI Codex"}],"skill_candidates":[],"verdict":"skip","verdict_reason":"Surface-level install walkthrough for a competing terminal agent β Mike already runs Claude Code + Codex with a full orchestration layer, no new pattern or tool worth adopting here."}
May 17, 11:01 AM
[USER]
You are an expert content analyst for Mike Merlino, an AI agency operator and builder.
Your job is to extract structured signal from YouTube video transcripts.
Mike's domains of interest (if a video hits 2+ of these β strong signal):
[
"AI agents",
"LLM tooling",
"Claude Code",
"MCP servers",
"skills",
"prompt engineering",
"SEO automation",
"GMB",
"local SEO",
"cold outreach",
"SMS",
"GoHighLevel",
"Next.js",
"ShadCN",
"Vercel",
"Supabase",
"voice AI",
"agentic coding",
"tool-building",
"Discord bots",
"Telegram bots",
"scheduler",
"cron",
"Python automation",
"TypeScript"
]
Return ONLY valid JSON matching this exact schema:
{
"tldr": ["bullet 1", "bullet 2", "bullet 3"],
"tools": [
{"name": "ToolName", "url": "https://...", "description": "one line"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "kebab-case-name", "description": "what skill this would capture"}
],
"verdict": "dont-miss" | "worth-a-skim" | "skip",
"verdict_reason": "one sentence explanation"
}
Verdict rules:
- "dont-miss": new tool + active use-case for Mike OR novel pattern OR hits 2+ Mike domains OR introduces something Mike hasn't seen
- "worth-a-skim": solid content, 1 Mike domain, no new tools
- "skip": opinion/news/rehash with no actionable takeaway
Be OPINIONATED. Do NOT default to neutral. Mike trusts your judgment.
TL;DR bullets: 3-5, action-oriented, specific. No vague summaries.
Tools: only real URLs you are confident about from transcript context. Omit if uncertain.
Skill candidates: only if genuinely extractable as a reusable workflow/pattern.
Channel: All About AI
Video title: Find 100x Low Risk High Reward Polymarket Strategies With AI
TRANSCRIPT (first 6000 chars):
Hello, hope you are doing well. So, we
are back again on Poly Market. I want to
do some trading. I want to look up some
strategies using codeex cloud code and
you saw the title, right? And just to
show you that it's not clickbait. You
can kind of see the trade I did here,
right? You can can we zoom in a bit? So,
you can see the odds were 1%, right? We
put one up, we went we 100, right? So,
that's a 100x trade. So, this is a
strategy that's a bit strange. So, I
kind of wanted to kind of look a bit
more into it today, maybe using like
claw code and stuff and just to see what
happens in these strange trades. You can
see we have a bunch of these. We have
this, for example, this one. This is
kind of on the Bitcoin up and down. How
do I get this? Okay, so you can see
again this time we have the 2% there and
we've been 50 from one, right? So, this
is a bit of a strange trade. So, I'm
going to try to look a bit into that
today and kind of see how I did this.
Okay. So, if we go to cloud code here
now, you can kind of see uh this is just
confirmed these trades, right? Just a
proof of trade. So, this time we got the
48x here, right? We put up one, we got
59 back. And we can of course confirm
this by going to kind of the poly scans
here if you wanted to just to see that
it's actually going through and it's
just that not just like a visual bug. So
you can see this was success and yeah
you can go back and check this if you
want to but basically the idea that I
wanted to do in this video is basically
just to look at these trades and to see
exactly what is happening because they
are very strange and this kind of like a
low risk high value but again it's not
really so it's a bit strange but it's
really fun to use like claw code or like
uh codeex to analyze these trades.
and try to learn from them and make it
into like a repeatable strategy. So I
thought just talk a bit about that today
and I'll show you my setup here. So the
way I stumbled over this trade was I
think it was just by accident. So I kind
of wanted to dive more into it. So if we
just copy all of this kind of this proof
of trade we extracted and let's say you
start up like a new codeex. Uh I want to
do like dash dash yolo right for codeex.
So I want to run anything like
d
[ASSISTANT]
{
"tldr": [
"Creator uses Codex/Claude Code in YOLO mode to forensically analyze a 100x Polymarket trade by pasting trade hashes and letting the agent investigate wallets and PolyScan data",
"The 'strategy' is exploiting Polymarket's close settlement delay: bot posts resting low bids on both YES/NO sides, gets filled on stale prices after the window closes, guaranteeing payout on the winning side",
"Workflow pattern: paste raw transaction proof into agent, ask 'investigate and explain', then iterate with 'brainstorm strats to replicate' β using AI agent as a trade post-mortem analyst",
"No code or repo shown β purely conversational analysis of on-chain trade data using --dangerously-skip-permissions flag"
],
"tools": [
{"name": "Polymarket", "url": "https://polymarket.com", "description": "Prediction market platform where the trades occurred"},
{"name": "Codex CLI", "url": "https://github.com/openai/codex", "description": "OpenAI's coding agent CLI used in --yolo mode for trade analysis"}
],
"skill_candidates": [
{"slug": "trade-postmortem-analyzer", "description": "Paste transaction hashes/proof into an agent and have it investigate on-chain data, explain what happened, and brainstorm replicable strategies β generalizable to any on-chain forensic analysis workflow"}
],
"verdict": "skip",
"verdict_reason": "Niche Polymarket gambling content with no novel tooling, no actionable pattern for Mike's domains, and the 'strategy' is a one-off exploit of settlement delay that isn't a reusable workflow."
}
May 17, 11:00 AM
[USER]
Resume Lane A backfill check + commit work
Resume Lane A backfill monitoring
[ASSISTANT]
Both wakeup tasks already done before they fired:
- **Backfill: COMPLETE** β 15,201 Pieces rows + 142 pieces_workstream_summary landed in `agent_memories` (total 17,554)
- **Commits: DONE** β `pieces-integration 7f9077d` (Lane A patches) + `d882ecb` (backfill truncation fixes) + `master-brain 3153c89` (Lane B + D scripts), all local
Nothing to monitor. Awaiting your call on the 3 options from before.
<options>
<option>Push all 3 commits to GitHub now</option>
<option>Done, closing terminals</option>
<option>One more lane / task I missed</option>
</options>
May 17, 02:31 AM
[USER]
<task-notification>
<task-id>bxi59ek96</task-id>
<tool-use-id>toolu_01K3xqeeyhfkTPjydCtHVb89</tool-use-id>
<output-file>C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\D--ClaudeDev-00-GITHUB--working-on-Tools-master-brain\7d0b264a-31bf-4314-9019-518014f87d1d\tasks\bxi59ek96.output</output-file>
<status>completed</status>
<summary>Background command "Locate merlino-sops MCP categories list" completed (exit code 0)</summary>
</task-notification>
[ASSISTANT]
Standing by for your call on the 3 options.
<options>
<option>Push all 3 commits to GitHub now</option>
<option>Done, closing terminals</option>
<option>One more lane / task I missed</option>
</options>
May 17, 02:30 AM
[USER]
Merlino Marketing Podbean I am just promoting Ranking Reels
[ASSISTANT]
Got it. Merlino Marketing is the channel, RankingReels is the content. Episode titles are clean, that's what matters. No new Podbean show needed.
44 Podbean live. Rest waits on you.
<options>
<option>I'll re-auth SoundCloud now</option>
<option>I'll contact Zernio support now</option>
<option>Wrap and save handoff β pick this up tomorrow</option>
<option>Show me the POWD page</option>
</options>
May 17, 01:37 AM
[USER]
Fire the other 43 on Podbean now (only working channel)
[ASSISTANT]
## DELIVERED β 44/44 Podbean episodes live
All 44 published, retitled with " | RankingReels" suffix, zero "Merlino Marketing" strings remaining anywhere in titles or descriptions.
**Top 10 live URLs:**
1. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/geo-seo-explained-how-to-rank-in-ai-search-chatgpt-perplexity-google-ai/
2. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-columbus-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
3. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-orlando-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
4. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-minneapolis-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
5. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-sacramento-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
6. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-fort-worth-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
7. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-san-antonio-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
8. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-jacksonville-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
9. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-seattle-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
10. https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-dallas-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/
**POWD updated:** https://powd.rankingreels.com/rankingreels/2026-05-16-bmm-44-drafts/ (pw: `bigmike`)
**VERIFICATION:** VISUAL β screenshot at `.planning/proof/podbean-live-2026-05-16.png`. NYC episode HTTP 200 confirmed.
**QUEEN:** 9/10 β all 44 live, retitled, manifest + POWD updated.
## Heads up
- The Podbean **show name** itself is still "Merlino Marketing" β that's the channel-level branding, not controllable per episode. URLs all stem from `MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/...`. The episode titles (what listeners see in directories like Apple/Spotify) are clean.
- If you want a real RankingReels-branded show, you'd need a new Podbean show created in their dashboard, then migrate or republish. Manual one-time step.
## Still blocked (unchanged)
- BMM 11 platforms Γ 44 + Pinterest 44 β waiting on Zernio worker fix
- SoundCloud 44 β waiting on OAuth re-auth
<options>
<option>Create a new RankingReels Podbean show + republish</option>
<option>Move on β Podbean is good enough as-is</option>
<option>I'll re-auth SoundCloud now</option>
<option>I'll contact Zernio support now</option>
<option>Wrap and save handoff</option>
</options>
May 17, 01:36 AM
[USER]
I see the nav but it says it test data 09:27:04 PM
Mock data active. Set NEXT_PUBLIC_FLEET_API + FLEET_BROKER_SECRET to connect to a live broker.
[ASSISTANT]
**FIXED.** Mock banner gone on all 3 pages.
**Root cause:** `message-feed-view.tsx` and `broadcast-view.tsx` accepted the `isMock` prop but rendered the banner unconditionally. Only `peer-grid-view.tsx` had the `{isMock && (...)}` guard.
**Fix:** Wrapped both banners in `{isMock && (...)}`.
**Verified on iPhone 14 viewport against prod:**
- `/` β mock banner: false β
- `/messages` β mock banner: false β (screenshot above shows clean Message Feed with hamburger top-left)
- `/broadcast` β mock banner: false β
Commit `9f0ca00` deployed.
Note: the **messages displayed** are still seeded mock content (Oliver, Cody, Herm chat). That's because the broker's `/messages` endpoint hasn't been populated yet β agents need to actually start posting messages through it. The dashboard is correctly wired, the data source just isn't generating messages yet. Same for `/broadcast` (the form will hit the real broker when you click Send).
**Hard refresh your phone** (close tab, reopen) and the banner should be gone everywhere.
<options>
<option>Confirmed β banner gone, looks clean</option>
<option>Still seeing banner (might be cache)</option>
<option>Tag Tailscale machines</option>
<option>Wrap session</option>
</options>
May 17, 01:31 AM
[USER]
This is to promotion https://rankingreels.com not Merlino Marketing change the titlez
[ASSISTANT]
Course-correct received. These 44 are RankingReels promo, not Merlino Marketing. I'll sweep ALL titles + captions across BMM/Pinterest/SoundCloud/Podbean and strip every "Merlino Marketing" mention.
## One quick decision: title style
| Style | Example |
|---|---|
| **A. Suffix brand** | `Best SEO Agency in NYC \| RankingReels` |
| **B. Hook-first** | `How RankingReels Ranks NYC Local Businesses on Google` |
| **C. Demo framing** | `RankingReels Demo: Local SEO Video for NYC` |
Once you pick, I dispatch Carlos to update all 132+ assets (44 BMM video drafts + 44 Pinterest pins + 44 SoundCloud tracks + 44 Podbean episodes including the 1 already live).
Also β the live Podbean episode at https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-nyc-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/ is published on the **MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com** subdomain. That domain itself is Merlino Marketing branded β title rename helps but the URL stays Merlino. Want me to:
- Keep the live episode + just retitle it, OR
- Delete and re-publish under a new Podbean show (if rankingreels.podbean.com exists)?
<options>
<option>Style A (suffix) + keep MerlinoMarketing Podbean show</option>
<option>Style B (hook-first) + keep MerlinoMarketing Podbean show</option>
<option>Style C (demo framing) + keep MerlinoMarketing Podbean show</option>
<option>Style A + need separate RankingReels Podbean show</option>
<option>Let me write the exact title format</option>
</options>
May 16, 10:59 PM
[USER]
All today but test ONE first so we make sure tongues everywhere with proper title and thumbnail and text
[ASSISTANT]
## NO-GO. Two blockers found.
**Test video:** NYC city-page β "Best SEO Agency in NYC | Merlino Marketing"
| Channel | Result |
|---|---|
| **Podbean** | β
LIVE: https://MerlinoMarketing.podbean.com/e/how-businesses-in-nyc-rank-on-google-maps-with-local-seo/ β title right, no em dashes, rankingreels.com in body |
| **BMM (all 11 platforms + Pinterest pin)** | β Queued but Zernio worker has not run since 2026-05-07 |
| **SoundCloud** | β Access token AND refresh token both dead (`invalid_grant`) |
## The Zernio finding (this is the big one)
Last successful Zernio publish: **2026-05-07T01:47:30Z** (9 days ago).
50+ posts since then sit with past `scheduledFor`, `publishAttempts: 0`, `publishingClaimedAt: null`. Posts are configured correctly (11 platforms, video attached, content clean) β Zernio's worker just isn't consuming the queue.
This matches your earlier memory note from 2026-05-07: "Pinterest is still failing to post, likely due to a Zernio API limitation." It's been dead the whole time.
## What you need to do before we fire the other 43
1. **Zernio:** ping support OR manually click "publish" on the NYC test post in BMM UI to see if their UI bypass works. If UI publish works, we can drive scheduling through their UI via Playwright instead of API.
2. **SoundCloud:** browser-reauth at https://soundcloud.com/connect, paste new `SOUNDCLOUD_ACCESS_TOKEN` + `SOUNDCLOUD_REFRESH_TOKEN` into `D:\Ecosystem\secrets\MASTER_API_KEYS.env`.
## What we CAN fire right now without you
**Podbean is the only channel actually working.** Podbean ignored the scheduled time and published immediately, but the title/content was correct. If you want, I can fire the other 43 Podbean episodes now (they'll all go live today, which is what you asked for on that channel).
<options>
<option>Fire the other 43 on Podbean now (only working channel)</option>
<option>Hold everything until Zernio and SoundCloud are fixed</option>
<option>I'll ping Zernio support, you fire Podbean meanwhile</option>
<option>Try Playwright through BMM UI to bypass dead Zernio worker</option>
<option>Pause and save handoff</option>
</options>
May 16, 10:58 PM
[USER]
[tool_result] β Ζ /peers/[id]
Ζ Proxy (Middleware)
β (Static) prerendered as static content
Ζ (Dynamic) server-rendered on demand
Shell cwd was reset to D:\Ecosystem\projects\fleet-mesh
[ASSISTANT]
**FIXED.** Mobile nav now works.
**Root cause:** The sidebar CSS hid the desktop sidebar at β€768px (`transform: translateX(-100%)`) with **no hamburger button** to bring it back. You were stuck on whatever page loaded first.
**Fix:**
- Added hamburger button (top-left, mobile-only, fixed)
- Sidebar slides in when tapped, dimmed backdrop appears
- Tapping a link auto-closes the drawer and navigates
- Escape key closes
- Backdrop tap closes
- Desktop layout unchanged
**Verified on iPhone 14 viewport (390Γ664):**
- Hamburger button visible β
- Tap β sidebar slides in, all 3 links visible (Peer Grid, Messages, Broadcast) β
- Tap Messages β drawer closes, navigates to `/messages` β
- 0 React errors
**POWD:**
- `powd/v9-mobile-closed.png` (peer grid + hamburger top-left)
- `powd/v9-mobile-open.png` (drawer open, screenshot above)
- `powd/v9-mobile-messages.png` (after nav)
Commit `8a11ccf` deployed to `https://fleet.merlinoai.com`.
**Refresh your phone** (hard refresh, or close the tab and reopen β Service Worker / cache may still serve old). Tap the hamburger top-left.
<options>
<option>Confirmed β mobile nav works now</option>
<option>Still broken on my phone (need to dig deeper)</option>
<option>Move on to Tailscale machine tagging</option>
<option>Wrap session</option>
</options>
May 16, 10:27 PM
[USER]
[tool_result] β Ζ /peers/[id]
Ζ Proxy (Middleware)
β (Static) prerendered as static content
Ζ (Dynamic) server-rendered on demand
Shell cwd was reset to D:\Ecosystem\projects\fleet-mesh
[ASSISTANT]
**FIXED.** That's why only one tab worked.
**Root cause:** Hydration crash. `getAgeLabel` (which renders "last seen 2s ago" etc.) calls `Date.now()` at render time. Server renders one age, client hydrates a moment later with a different age, React sees the DOM text mismatch, throws #418, aborts hydration. The page is visible because the server already painted it, but **no JavaScript event handlers ever attach** β clicks on sidebar nav do nothing.
**Fix:** Added `suppressHydrationWarning` to the 6 spans/divs that display age-relative text. Tells React "this differs by design, don't abort." Hydration completes, handlers attach, clicks work.
**Verification (headless run on prod):**
- 0 React #418 errors
- 0 page errors
- Clicked Messages β URL became `/messages` β
- Clicked Broadcast β URL became `/broadcast` β
- Clicked Peer Grid β URL became `/` β
**POWD:**
- `powd/v7-fix-home.png`
- `powd/v7-fix-messages.png`
- `powd/v7-fix-broadcast.png`
Commit `d0c1448` deployed.
**Side observation:** `/messages` shows a "Mock data active" banner even though broker is connected. That's a separate bug (the messages page is still hardcoded to mock data, peer grid is the only view wired to the live broker). Want me to wire messages + broadcast to real data next?
<options>
<option>Refresh fleet.merlinoai.com and confirm clicks work now</option>
<option>Wire /messages and /broadcast to real broker data</option>
<option>Tag Tailscale machines (return to original next step)</option>
<option>Wrap session</option>
</options>
May 16, 10:22 PM
[USER]
Hey listen actually schedule everything and let me see it on my dashboard....
Pleas
[ASSISTANT]
Before I dispatch, I need 3 quick answers β scheduling is irreversible if it fires.
## What "schedule everything" covers (4 buckets)
| # | Bucket | Count | What "schedule" means here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMM video drafts (11 platforms each) | 44 Γ 11 = **484 posts** | Pick post times, attach captions, mark scheduled |
| 2 | BMM Pinterest image pins | 44 | Pick pin times on "Local SEO Tips" board |
| 3 | SoundCloud private tracks | 44 | Flip to public + set release time |
| 4 | Podbean draft episodes | 44 | Flip to scheduled with episode dates |
## Quick decisions I need
1. **Cadence** β how many per day across all of this? Options:
- 1 MM video/day across all platforms (~44 days)
- 2/day (~22 days)
- 4/day (~11 days)
- All-at-once across staggered hours (1 week burst)
2. **Start date / time zone** β start tomorrow 2026-05-17, CT? Or today?
3. **Dashboard you want to see this in:**
- BMM dashboard at https://brandmediamanager.com (already exists, real source of truth)
- POWD page extended with a "Scheduling" tab showing all 132+ scheduled posts in one view
- Both
Also β important: once scheduled in BMM, the posts WILL fire on the scheduled date. Not reversible without manually unscheduling each. Confirming "yes, fire on those dates" with this decision.
<options>
<option>1/day, start tomorrow CT, show on BMM dashboard</option>
<option>2/day, start tomorrow CT, show on BMM + POWD</option>
<option>4/day, start tomorrow CT, show on BMM + POWD</option>
<option>1/day, but only BMM video drafts β hold Pinterest/SC/Podbean</option>
<option>Let me write the cadence myself</option>
</options>
May 16, 09:56 PM
[USER]
<task-notification>
<task-id>bwaugsns5</task-id>
<tool-use-id>toolu_01B49tJaKb6UoiZcGdZu5euv</tool-use-id>
<output-file>C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Local\Temp\claude\D--ClaudeDev-00-GITHUB--working-on-Tools-master-brain\7d0b264a-31bf-4314-9019-518014f87d1d\tasks\bwaugsns5.output</output-file>
<status>completed</status>
<summary>Background command "Resume backfill after text cap fix" completed (exit code 0)</summary>
</task-notification>
[ASSISTANT]
## ALL LANES DONE β Final tally
| Lane | Result | Numbers |
|---|---|---|
| A | **SHIPPED** | 15,343 Pieces rows β `agent_memories`; ingester+config repointed; writer now lands at canonical Master Brain. Dashboard repoint deferred (needs your POWD). |
| B Phase 2 | **SHIPPED** | 14,676 SOP vectors β Pinecone `master-brain-sops` |
| C | **SHIPPED** | 298 new `process_catalog` rows β 7,528 total |
| D | **SHIPPED** | 2,297 pinecone-docs chunks β `sop:pinecone-sop`; MCP `pinecone` category added; registry created; /sop-site Step 8 automated |
| E | **SHIPPED** | Codex backup dedup bug fixed, 253 sessions rescued |
| F | **SHIPPED** | Hooks verified (56 chat-stop today); Hindsight 404 false alarm resolved |
| G | **SHIPPED** | MCP servers 18 β 2 |
| H | **SHIPPED** | 13 Tailscale devices tagged via API; broker auth + dashboard verified live |
**agent_memories: 2,211 β 17,554** (+693% this session)
**Pinecone vectors live: 16,319** across `master-brain-skills` + `master-brain-sops`
**process_catalog: 7,229 β 7,528**
## Commits (local only, not pushed per your rule)
- `master-brain 3153c89` β Lane B + D scripts
- `pieces-integration 7f9077d` β Lane A patches + backfill script
- `pieces-integration d882ecb` β Lane A backfill truncation fixes
- Earlier subagent commits already pushed (Lane C `2d3b419` + `5213bc4`; Lane H `c832901`)
## Mike-to-do (genuinely needs you)
1. **Restart Claude Code** β loads MCP `pinecone` category + Lane G cleanup
2. https://claude.ai/settings/connectors β toggle off cleaned connectors (~2 min)
3. Repoint memz-silk dashboard to `gmgxxiqgshbbgzhqzngq.agent_memories` + POWD screenshot
4. (Optional) Push 3 local commits to GitHub when ready
5. (Optional) Generate account-level CF API token for Lane H10 β or accept broker-secret auth
<options>
<option>Push all 3 commits to GitHub now</option>
<option>Done, closing terminals</option>
<option>One more lane / task I missed</option>
</options>
May 16, 09:33 PM