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Automation — from shell scripts to AI agents — saves developers time and changes how work gets done. This topic covers workflow tools, RPA, CI automation, and the emerging category of autonomous AI systems.

HN builders share concrete setups and honest assessments of what is worth automating.

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Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

github.com · 16 points · 3 comments

TakoVM – Serverless file systems for agents

tako-research.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Let your coding agents set up your test coverage

blog.codacy.com · 2 points · 0 comments

OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

wired.com · 5 points · 1 comments

TrueForge – The open-source agent harness

github.com · 10 points · 2 comments

SystemG – An agent-friendly general process composer

sysg.dev · 2 points · 1 comments

JavaScript library that makes any list a smooth picker of any shape

3 points · 0 comments

Future Crew's 1993 Second Reality, rebuilt by AI agents, no emulation

secondreality1993.com · 5 points · 5 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

lambda-symbolics.com · 116 points · 46 comments

Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?

3 points · 0 comments

Clean, an agent skill that clears dev junk (freed 5.3 GB on first run)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

LilScript makes JavaScript libraries smaller

14 points · 2 comments

evepad – The missing IDE for building eve agents

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

testmagic.link – Zero-setup magic link testing for coding agents

testmagic.link · 3 points · 0 comments

LinkedIn cracks down on automated content with AI detection button

campaignindia.in · 13 points · 7 comments

What AI automations have you kept running in production?

3 points · 1 comments

Semantica, the Open Source Palantir for AI Agents

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Collaborative Human Agent Protocol (CHAP)

github.com · 25 points · 6 comments

ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home

theregister.com · 11 points · 1 comments

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

github.com · 218 points · 127 comments

I forked an agent stack and measured myself against it, losses included

toolbay.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

I let an AI agent brick my $2.51 ESP32 on purpose

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Notula – where humans edit the Markdown your AI agents read

notula.org · 2 points · 3 comments

Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents

demo.frugaltokens.com · 20 points · 6 comments

Naeos – an engineering system for AI coding agents

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

github.com · 34 points · 12 comments

a javascript engine written in C3 with native TS support

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Verify OpenAI's signed agent traffic in Python (RFC 9421/Web Bot Auth)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Investing in automated C to Rust translation

discourse.ubuntu.com · 6 points · 5 comments

PlugClaw – Private AI agent hardware for any phone or PC

plugos.net · 5 points · 4 comments