Sean Avery

Building AI-powered workflows with cutting-edge tech to solve real problems | Helping small teams do more with less | Civic tech & automation

[Sean Avery @TOP84]

NVIDIA open-sourced SkillSpector → a free scanner for prompt injection, data exfil, and supply-chain risk in agent skills, before install. 21.6k stars already.

I build automation for a living. Trust the pipeline, not the vendor.

Would your last "quick install" pass this scan?

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OpenAI's Decisions API skips the essay for the verdict: yes/no, pick-one, or a score → up to 10x faster, $0.10/million tokens.

I build automation for a living. Most workflows don't need more words. They need a call.

What decision could you stop narrating and just ask for?

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NVIDIA's OpenShell — a sandboxed runtime for AI agents — picked up 1,119 GitHub stars today, now 19K+ total. → Cisco's already wiring it into enterprise agent security.

Letting an agent act is easy. Letting it act safely is the real build.

What's your agent's blast radius?

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Anthropic's Claude Duet watches 6,000+ apps, sends one morning brief, then works all day → only pinging when it matters. Still asks before sending, paying, or deleting anything.

I build automation for a living. The bottleneck was never the AI. It's trust.

Brief, or ask first?

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NVIDIA open-sourced OpenShell → 19.1k stars, 1,100+ added today alone.

A sandboxed runtime: agents read files, call APIs, use credentials — without touching your real data.

Autonomy without exposure is the trade every automation builder has to solve.

Where's your blast radius?

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TanStack AI hit 1.0 → 23 provider adapters, 140+ contributors, zero lock-in.

No lock-in isn't a feature. It's leverage.

I build automation for legislative + counseling work — the tool that owns your provider ends up owning your roadmap.

What's locking your stack in right now?

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GitHub tool worth 10 seconds: anthropics/claude-plugins-official — 44K stars, one command: /plugin install.

→ Not a demo. A loading dock for proven automations.

I build civic + counseling workflows daily. What would you install if it took 10 seconds?

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Anthropic just gave its "Agent Skills" standard to the Linux Foundation — 70+ platforms speak it (ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, VS Code).

→ Open standards are bridges, not moats.

I build legislative + counseling automations for a living. What you're building — bridge or moat?

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n8n shipped v2.45 on Oct 20 → https://t.co/ZnAf5H65bJ parity, Kafka v2 defaults, Microsoft Foundry now runs Claude deployments. 200K+ stars, still shipping weekly.

→ Open-source automation moving at AI speed.

I build workflows on tools like this. What would you automate first?

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Anthropic opened the waitlist for Claude Duet — a proactive agent that flags what needs you, keeps working while you're away, then asks before acting.

→ Autonomy, with a permission gate.

I build automation for a living. Where should AI always ask first?

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VoiceStudio just hit GitHub trending → 69,668 stars, 3,000+ gained today. Free, local, open-source voice cloning + dubbing + transcription in 646 languages. No cloud required.

I run my own audio workflows. Which paid AI tool are you still using out of habit?

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Google shipped Gemini for Government Services (Oct 20) — FOIA redaction that "often takes weeks" → now agent-assisted, human still signs off. HHS + Missouri are first in.

Speed without receipts isn't trust. I build civic automation — where would citations change yours?

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200,000+ developers starred one GitHub repo: n8n.

Free, open-source canvas linking your apps → databases → AI models into one workflow. Self-hosted. No lock-in.

It's the kind of stack I build legislative and counseling automations on.

What task would you hand off first?

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OpenAI just gave ChatGPT hands, not just a voice.

New Chrome extension reads your tabs → fills forms → downloads files → sends messages for you.

I build automation for a living. Capability was never the hard part — trust is.

What would you let it click for you?

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A tool called REA hit 277K GitHub stars - 32K in a day. Point it at Claude Code or Cursor and it reverse-engineers binaries and APKs in minutes.

Power like that cuts two ways → research, or theft.

I automate for a living. The tool never asks "should I?" You do. Which side?

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ServiceNow gave AI agents a passport: a signed credential for what it can touch, who answers when it fails. Demo: $18 refund auto-cleared, $40 flagged for a human.

I automate for a living → it's never "can it run," it's "who answers?"

What needs a passport, not a login?

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OpenClaw hit 250K GitHub stars in ~60 days — beating React's decade-old record.

A self-hosted AI agent: runs commands, manages files, works through WhatsApp.

I build automation for a living → agents that act, not just chat, are next.

Would you trust one in your business?

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Reflection AI's Beam: 501B params, Apache 2.0 → claims GLM-5.2-level reasoning at 3-4x less compute.

Power isn't scarce anymore. Efficiency is.

I build automation for a living — cheaper reasoning = more workflows running.

Capability or cost: which is your real bottleneck?

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Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin directory hit 39.6K stars → up from 23K in May. Every plugin is reviewed, not just uploaded — code review, testing, security, docs.

Curation is becoming the real moat.

Which plugin saves you the most hours this week?

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GitHub Copilot's Autofix went GA Oct 15 → one agent batches 25 security alerts, drafts the fix, reruns CodeQL to prove it, opens the PR.

I build automation for a living. Detection was never the hard part — trust is.

What check won't you delegate yet?