#open-source

19 tutorials, projects and news items tagged open-source.

Let Nod by n8n Handle the Chores You Keep Putting Off

Beginner tutorial: Download the Nod desktop app, connect a ChatGPT subscription, a free Gemini key, or a local model, link only the email and calendar you need, set clear limits on each task, and approve anything that sends or pays. Includes 2 copy-ready prompts.

Tutorial·Beginner·12 minn8nnodpersonal-assistantagents
Baidu's ERNIE 5.5 Flash Is Going Open Source as a Cheap, Long-Context Brain for Your AI Agent

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview is live on Baidu's Qianfan platform and OpenRouter, with open weights promised by November 25. What it's good at, where it lags on benchmarks, and how to try it for free.

News·Intermediate·4 min·Nov 12, 2026erniebaidullmopen-source
Hermes Agent Now Has a Web UI That Puts Your Whole AI Agent Workspace in a BrowserPick

Hermes Agent v0.23.0 adds a web UI (Webapp): the full Desktop app workspace in your browser, served by your own gateway. Sessions, group chats, plugins and files sync with the Desktop app. Off by default, three commands to turn on. Set up sign-in before opening it to the local network or internet. Includes a prompt to hand to your AI agent.

News·Intermediate·4 min·Nov 11, 2026hermesagentsweb-uiopen-source
Advanced: Let an AI agent build a self-publishing site that AI search wants to recommendPick

Advanced tutorial: Use the open-source GEOFlow to build a GEO content factory. Have your AI agent set up a local trial, load your real company material and configure a model. Then have it list the questions customers ask AI, pick the first topics and set quality rules. After human review, articles go to your website and channels, and you check whether AI search mentions you and fill the gaps. Includes 3 prompts you can copy directly.

Tutorial·Advanced·20 mingeogeoflowai-searchcontent-marketing
Stop paying per character for AI voiceovers, let an AI agent set up a free voice actor on your computerPick

Beginner tutorial: Make AI voiceovers on your own computer with VoxCPM2, an open-source model you can use commercially for free. Listen to samples online first. Then let your AI agent check your computer and set up the web version. Create a new voice from one sentence of description, or clone your own voice from a recording. Finally, batch-voice a whole script paragraph by paragraph. Includes 3 copy-ready prompts.

Tutorial·Beginner·10 minvoxcpmai-voiceoverttsvoice-cloning
Advanced: Self-host a real-time voice assistant that hears your tone and laughs backPick

Advanced tutorial: Self-host Sophon-Realtime, an open-source full-duplex voice assistant. Try the online demo first to hear how it handles tone and interruptions, choose between the Tag and Flash versions, rent an 80 GB GPU and hand the deployment to an agent, then plug it into your own app. Optionally, use LoRA to give it your own persona. Includes 3 copy-ready prompts.

Tutorial·Advanced·15 min·Videovoice-airealtimefull-duplexopen-source
Reverse-engineer Muse into a video API, then batch clips into a storyboard locallyPick

Intermediate tutorial: the open-source project muse2api reverse-engineers the Meta Muse website into a video-generation API, and MuseAPI-Video adds a local studio on top. Have an agent install it and change the default password, bind your own Muse account, split your short into shots with one consistent style and queue them, then line the clips up on an infinite canvas. Includes risk notes. Includes 3 copy-ready prompts.

Tutorial·Intermediate·12 min·Videometa-museai-videomuseapi-videostoryboard
Poki Lets AI Tap Your iPhone Without a JailbreakPick

The open-source Poki project has released a preview iPhone app. An AI agent reads the screen, taps, and types on the phone locally. It takes commands from the app, iMessage, Telegram, or a terminal, and it can plug into Claude Code and Codex as an MCP server. Payments, deletions, and messages need your approval in the Dynamic Island first.

News·Beginner·4 min·Nov 9, 2026newspokiiphoneios
Craft Anything Has Claude Code Rebuild Any Web PagePick

A new project with a layout close to the reference page, with all text and images replaced by your own, plus a similarity score and difference list for three screen widths.

Project·Intermediate·8 minprojectclaude-codeweb-designfrontend
Run Sherlock on Your Own Username FirstPick

A checked, item-by-item list of accounts, with old accounts deleted or set to private, and occupied brand names reclaimed through platform appeals.

Project·Beginner·7 minprojectosintprivacysecurity
Chatwoot's Free Edition Becomes Smart Support With Your Own AgentPick

Common questions are answered first by your own agent, refunds, complaints and unclear conversations are automatically handed to a human, and the backlog is sorted daily by a back-office agent and awaits your approval.

Project·Intermediate·8 minprojectchatwootcustomer-serviceagent
Meta Opens Astryx So Agents Can Look Up Its Design RulesPick

Meta has released Astryx, a React design system it used internally for eight years and that powers over 13,000 apps, on GitHub under the MIT license, with themes, templates, and a hosted MCP and command-line tool for AI coding assistants. It is currently in Beta and requires React 19.

News·Beginner·4 min·Nov 8, 2026newsdesign-systemreactmcp
Live Bilingual Subtitles and Meeting Notes Without a Bot in the CallPick

During meetings you get real-time bilingual subtitles and structured notes, and when needed you can speak directly using translated speech; after the meeting you get replayable, speaker-separated bilingual records that can be exported as Markdown, Word, or SRT.

Horizon Watches Tech News for You and Writes a Daily DigestPick

The open-source project Horizon collects content from Hacker News, Reddit, X, GitHub, RSS and other sources, has AI score, deduplicate, and add background and community discussion, then generates a bilingual Chinese-English daily digest that can be published as a website or email, or pushed to Feishu or Slack. Includes a source list, what you need to prepare, and notes.

News·Intermediate·5 min·Nov 8, 2026horizonnews-radarhacker-newsrss
StableGen Generates a 3D Character in Blender From One SentencePick

StableGen, an open-source free Blender add-on, chains together generation models, texturing, rigging, and export into one pipeline. Results can still be edited and given animations, and exported to Godot, Unreal, and Unity. v0.5.0 configures ComfyUI directly inside Blender. Covers features, hardware requirements, and commercial license considerations.

News·Beginner·4 min·Nov 7, 2026blender3dstablegencomfyui
The Community Has Fixes for DeepSeek Harness's Biggest HeadachesPick

DSH getting more expensive the longer you use it, forgetting everything when you switch sessions, not being able to see images, clunky web search, and not knowing which plugin to install? Five community projects, dsh-context, MemOS, ModLens, ModSearch, and awesome-dsh-plugin, each tackle one of these, along with what to check before installing.

News·Beginner·3 min·Nov 7, 2026deepseekdeepseek-harnesspluginsmemory
Hermes Agent Is an Open-Source Agent That Grows Its Own SkillsPick

Hermes Agent, an open-source project from Nous Research, is the same kind of product as OpenClaw but works quite differently: it creates skills on its own from conversations, improves them as it's used, remembers you across sessions, and can dispatch sub-agents to work in parallel. In our testing it ran alongside OpenClaw and could revive it when something broke. MIT licensed.

News·Intermediate·2 min·Nov 6, 2026agentshermesopenclawopen-source
Run AI Voice Synthesis Free on Your Own ComputerPick

Generate 48kHz voiceovers for free on your own computer, design a voice with one sentence, or clone a voice from your own recording.

Project·Beginner·3 minprojectttsvoiceopen-source
Pick a Template, Edit the Text, and Let AI Make the Motion GraphicsPick

Edit the text and numbers on a ready-made motion template, re-render, and download the finished video, with a consistent style.