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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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Octomind Routines – scheduled agents on persistent cloud machines

octomind.run · 3 points · 0 comments

Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents

5 points · 0 comments

Launched free browser agent (the catch: ads)

rtrvr.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

Openspender gives your agents wallets

openspender.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Browser automation with no chromedriver and no Node driver

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

arxiv.org · 79 points · 28 comments

Agent Purge – Scrub any mention of anything agent related

3 points · 1 comments

CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal work

captureagent.us · 3 points · 0 comments

Agent skill to create HTML docs for planning

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

github.com · 58 points · 27 comments

Tracing Claude Tag, Anthropic's Slack Agent

docs.scorecard.io · 3 points · 0 comments

A portable evidence record for what an AI agent ran

trace.agentrust-io.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

cua.ai · 23 points · 8 comments

Orbit - One agent across many repos: real worktrees, no index

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Red-team LLM reasoning and agent actions (honest scoring, local-first)

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Turn any website into a CLI for AI agents (142x fewer tokens than HTML)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Shepherdr – A mobile-first web UI for agents on Herdr

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user

eris-system.dev · 15 points · 4 comments

I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS

fdeploy.com · 34 points · 20 comments

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

laude.org · 40 points · 15 comments

What languages are agent skills written in?

plicara.ai · 11 points · 2 comments

Sloppie – Agentic development environment for Linux

github.com · 2 points · 2 comments

SpaceXAI Adopts Nvidia Vera CPU to Accelerate Agentic AI at Scale

nvidianews.nvidia.com · 6 points · 4 comments

I built a lite LPU that can do inference on Karpathy's MicroGPT

lpulite.com · 18 points · 3 comments

Headless Tools – No UI SaaS tools for agents

hdls.tools · 3 points · 0 comments

Up to 30x More Work per Watt: Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72

blogs.nvidia.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Agentize lets AI agents query your website instead of crawling it

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Agent Lightning v1.0

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Nvidia Groq 3 LPX Now in Full Production with World-Class Speed for Agentic AI

nvidianews.nvidia.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Ruby script that prints a Ruby

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments