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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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ShellTeam – web app to steer coding agents on your VPS

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Lotor – the agentic witness with signed receipts and pre-tool gate

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Agent and RAG for Obsidian, Need Feedback

2 points · 1 comments

ButterClaw – AI agent runtime security, SIGKILL on breach, no cloud

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

arxiv.org · 325 points · 211 comments

Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

github.com · 65 points · 68 comments

BetaManuscript – A Beta-Reading Platform for Indie Authors

betamanuscript.com · 4 points · 0 comments

PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Fund Momentum MCP: Live VC Fund Data for AI Agents

2 points · 1 comments

PassControl – so your AI agents never hold your real API keys

passcontrol.vertias.eu · 2 points · 0 comments

Steadra.dev is for automated QA with no effort

steadra.dev · 2 points · 1 comments

Expose Your APIs to Agents Without Losing Control via Koodisi MCP

koodisi.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Scaling Agentic RL: 365,000 Environments for SWE, Terminal, and Search

primeintellect.ai · 4 points · 0 comments

Mcploitable – Vulnerable MCP Servers for the OWASP Agentic Top

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

EarPal – private multi-speaker interpreter, on-device, 30 languages

apps.apple.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Code Security Skills Codex-Inspired Workflows Packaged for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Equities surpass real estate as top US wealth driver for first time since WW2

reuters.com · 6 points · 0 comments

When the Walls Came Down

scripting.com · 5 points · 0 comments

What agentic AI ad optimization tool do you use?

3 points · 1 comments

How many AI agents do you actively use?

3 points · 12 comments

Marble – a model-agnostic agent harness for life sciences

marble.glass.bio · 5 points · 0 comments

Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

hubble.md · 150 points · 78 comments

Magpie, a CLI to Turn Your AI Agent into a Bookkeeper

github.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Mustuse.ai – Open-source automated ranking system run by agents

mustuse.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

github.com · 423 points · 122 comments

An MMO for AI agents where cooking a pizza requires a civilization

spacemolt.beehiiv.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Vyne – Zapier for DeFi users, run from any LLM or the workflow builder

app.vyne.finance · 2 points · 0 comments

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

huggingface.co · 454 points · 254 comments

Loopsfinity–I built an agentic platform that writes and ships code

loopsfinity.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Gemini Distillation Service

web.archive.org · 7 points · 1 comments