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The best tool this week isn't a new model, it's a plugin that makes the old ones behave. Claude Code got good at being Claude Code: tool choice, routing, the clipped execution-first replies. Swap in Kimi or DeepSeek through a gateway and all of that slips, your agent gets chatty, picks the wrong tool, drifts. The fix isn't a better model. It's a plugin that sands the seams down so the model underneath stops mattering as much as the harness around it.
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Toolhello2cc
689 stars · hellowind777/hello2cc
A Claude Code plugin that keeps third-party models closer to a native Opus session.
Here is the real problem it solves. Run GPT, Kimi, DeepSeek, Gemini, or Qwen through Claude Code via a mapping layer like CCSwitch, and they do not always pick tools or answer the way native Claude Code does. hello2cc sits in the plugin layer and nudges tool choice, agent routing, and reply style back toward Claude Code's own habits.
Quick start: git clone https://github.com/hellowind777/hello2cc.git, then add it as a local plugin marketplace and install it with the commands in the README (Node 18+).
Catch: it won't set up your API keys or gateway for you, and it won't expose tools Claude Code itself doesn't already surface.
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Use it for: keeping contacts, email, deals and tickets on one record your team works from.
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Reponew-term-radar
854 stars · zhuyansen/new-term-radar
Daily radar for new AI model, product and repo names, caught on X, Hugging Face and GitHub before keyword tools list them.
Use it for: spotting a new name the day it breaks instead of two weeks later, from X, Hugging Face trending and GitHub breakouts.
Catch: the Hugging Face and GitHub signals are free, but the X signal needs a paid AIsa key, and without one the report lists every term unsorted.
MCPsolidcraft
1,703 stars · bherbruck/solidcraft
An open-source parametric 3D CAD app in pure Rust, with a built-in MCP server for agents.
Use it for: letting an agent model parametric parts directly, change one dimension and the whole design rebuilds, free and open source.
Catch: young repo, created this month, so expect rough edges outside the demoed workflows.
RepoVibe-Trading
35,411 stars · HKUDS/Vibe-Trading
A personal trading agent you wire up with one command for comprehensive trading capabilities.
Use it for: portfolio imports, strategy backtesting, and multi-broker research in one agent, if you're already comfortable automating your own trades.
Catch: the project's own security notice warns of impersonator tokens and a fake X account, there is no official coin, don't connect a wallet to anything claiming otherwise.
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Say it out loud, send it in writing.
One prompt today instead of a how-to. It is one of ours, tested on ChatGPT and Claude. Copy it, paste it into the free app you already use, and fill in the three bits in capitals. For the last one, hit the microphone on your phone keyboard and just talk.
Who it goes to: [WHO GETS IT AND HOW YOU NORMALLY TALK TO THEM, FOR EXAMPLE THE PLUMBER, BY TEXT]
What I want the message to do: [WHAT YOU WANT THE MESSAGE TO DO, FOR EXAMPLE GET HIM TO CONFIRM TUESDAY]
What I said, transcribed as it came out:
[WHAT YOU SAID, PASTED EXACTLY AS YOUR PHONE TRANSCRIBED IT, UMS AND ALL]
Give me, in this order:
1. The message. Only what I actually said, put in the order that reads best rather than the order it came out in. Cut the ums, the false starts, the repetitions and the tangents that go nowhere. Do not add a greeting, a sign off, a pleasantry, a reason or a fact I did not say.
2. Where I changed my mind. Anywhere I said one thing and then corrected myself, give the version you used and the version you dropped, in my words, and use the later one. If I said two things that contradict each other and never settled it, do not choose: put it here and ask me which one I meant.
3. Where I trailed off. Anything I started and did not finish, quoted as I said it, each one turned into a question back to me. If I finished every thought, say so.
4. What you left out. One line per tangent you cut, so I can tell you if I actually wanted it in.
Rules. Speech repeats itself and writing must not, so cutting is most of this job. Losing a fact is not cutting: if a number, a date, a name or a price came out of my mouth once, it stays. A sentence I did not finish stays unfinished in the message or comes out of it. Never add the words that would finish it. Where the transcript has plainly mangled a word, keep my words and flag it in section 3 rather than guessing what I meant. If I wrote "not sure" for what the message is for, keep to what I said and ask them for nothing at the end. Make it as short as it can be and still say everything I said.
The line that makes it work: never add the words that would finish it. Ask AI to tidy a ramble and it fills the gaps with things you never said, a reason, a promise, a date. This line keeps every word in the message yours, and hands the unfinished bits back to you as questions.
TRY THIS: next time you are about to type a long reply on your phone, talk it instead, paste the transcript in, and compare what comes back with what you would have typed.
This is one of 100 in the AIgent prompt pack. The other 99, plus guided builds with Mike on video, are inside the AIgent membership, dropping this week.
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Frontier Signals
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says smaller AI models may be months away from copying themselves across household devices like smart TVs and ovens. Researchers ran a model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes, though nobody has shown a real-world AI worm yet. If you run anything agentic on a home or office network, patching just became a security job, not a chore. (Fox News)
Shopify now lets shoppers bring any AI agent to its catalog of over a billion listings, no partnership integration needed. Checkout still runs through Shop Pay and buyers approve every purchase. If you build commerce agents, you no longer need a deal with Shopify to get in. (The Verge)
OpenAI and Anthropic told British MPs they back a statutory framework for AI, while Google DeepMind and Meta declined to endorse one and pointed to standards and existing regulators. That is a real split among the labs you build on, said in public. (Wired)
Geoffrey Huntley, quoted by Simon Willison, fixes agent drift with a pre-commit hook instead of more instructions. When the agent bypasses his diagnostics library, the hook fails the commit and injects a prompt telling it to use the library. The lesson travels: stop asking nicely, start gating mechanically. (Simon Willison)
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