🔒Hermes Vault v0.12.0 is live.
This is one of those releases that won’t look dramatic in a screenshot, but should make the tool feel a lot better to operate.
🔹OAuth provider checks are clearer.
🔹Health verification is narrower.
🔹MCP status is safer.
🔹Failure messages are more useful.
🔹Credential-bearing values stay out of the output.
Auth confidence release. 🤘
🔗Repo: https://t.co/Vc2yTHcui8
Hermes Vault v0.11.0 is live.
This is the First Safe Agent release.
Because “just paste your .env into the agent” is not a strategy.
It’s a crime scene with extra steps.
v0.11.0 gives you a guided path from messy local secrets to policy-scoped agent access:
hermes-vault bootstrap --from-env .env --agent hermes --dry-run --json
🔹It shows what can be imported.
🔹It skips what should stay untouched.
🔹It generates the agent contract.
🔹It gives you the next command.
🔹It keeps the actual secrets out of the report.
Dry-run does not mutate the vault, database, runtime policy, or source .env.
Headless OAuth login also landed for supported providers, and MCP gets device-login parity without handing raw tokens back to the caller.
That’s the whole point:
👉Agents should be powerful.
👉Credential access should be boring.
👉The boundary should be explicit.
601 tests passed.🤘
🔗 https://t.co/IDrU0Wx2Hb
SUPIR upscaler is outdated. ASASR- turns blurry, low-quality photos into sharp, high-res images. Prevents the fake hallucinated details.
- improves OCR
- high segmentation accuracy
- based on FLUX.1 dev
this looks sweet
https://t.co/kx4A4N1wDc
10 free github repos that can replace major SaaS with subscriptions.
all free. open-sourced. some are MIT licensed.
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1️��� openscreen — replaces screen studio ($29/mo)
- a clean macOS/windows/linux screen recorder for polished demos.
- blur, cursor highlighting, annotations, export to mp4 or gif at any aspect ratio.
- doesn't try to clone every feature, just nails the basics for quick walkthroughs you'd post on X.
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2️⃣ voicebox — replaces elevenlabs ($22/mo) + wisprflow ($15/mo)
- local-first AI voice studio.
- clone voices from 3 seconds of audio, generate speech across 7 TTS engines in 23 languages,
- dictate into any text field with a global hotkey.
- nothing leaves your machine.
- runs on apple silicon, cuda, rocm.
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3️⃣ openshorts — replaces opus clip ($19/mo) + submagic ($16/mo)
- free AI video platform.
- clip generator turns long youtube videos into 9:16 shorts with auto-subtitles and face tracking (runs on free gemini + elevenlabs tiers).
- also includes AI UGC video generation with actors — that part is pay-per-use via fal. ai (~$0.65-2 per video). docker self-host.
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4️⃣ freellmapi — replaces chatgpt pro + claude pro ($20/mo each)
- stacks 14 free AI provider tiers (google, groq, cerebras, openrouter, github models + 9 more) behind one openai-compatible endpoint.
~800M tokens/month.
- smart router with failover, sticky sessions, encrypted key storage. ships with a dashboard.
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5️⃣ playwright-mcp — replaces browserbase ($39/mo) + browser use ($25/mo)
- microsoft's official MCP server that gives any AI agent full browser control.
- uses accessibility trees, not screenshots — deterministic and token-efficient.
- works with claude code, cursor, windsurf, codex out of the box.
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6️⃣ vibe-trading — replaces tradingview premium ($60/mo)
- natural-language finance research agent.
- 7 backtest engines across stocks, crypto, futures, forex.
- 75 specialist skills (factor analysis, options strategy, ML strategy).
- 29 multi-agent swarm presets.
- 21 of 22 MCP tools work with zero API keys.
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7️⃣ CalCom — replaces calendly ($12/mo) + savvycal ($12/mo)
- the open-source scheduling infrastructure.
- one-on-ones, group events, round-robin, team booking,
- payment collection (stripe), routing forms, workflows.
- integrates with google/outlook/apple calendar, zoom, meet, teams.
- self-host in 10 minutes with docker. 40k stars.
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8️⃣ whisper — replaces otter ($17/mo)
- openAI's open-source speech-to-text model.
- transcribe audio in 99 languages, translate to english, generate timestamps.
- runs locally on cpu or gpu.
- the actual model behind most "AI transcription" SaaS tools you're paying for.
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9️⃣ postiz — replaces buffer ($15/mo)
- AI-powered social media scheduler.
- cross-post to X, linkedin, instagram, tiktok, threads, bluesky, mastodon, youtube, pinterest.
- AI captions and hashtags.
- analytics dashboard. team workspaces. 31k stars and rising.
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🔟 vaultwarden — replaces 1password ($8/mo)
- unofficial bitwarden-compatible server written in rust.
- works with every official bitwarden client (mobile, desktop, browser).
- unlimited users, unlimited vaults, full enterprise feature set.
- runs on a $5 VPS or your home server.
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disclaimer:
open-source ≠ 1:1 replacement. you'll trade polish for ownership, hand-holding for control, and a credit card for a github version.
for builders, prototypers, and indie hackers — that's the whole point.
for everyone else, the paid tools still have their place.
bookmark this. share with one friend bleeding subscription fees.
~m0h
Microsoft dropping a massive Playwright update geared specifically for agents, Webwright!
This is an absolute game changer for agentic browser use as every session becomes a reusable workflow
The repo includes a @NousResearch Hermes Agent skill 😍
https://t.co/mDmKCN9kV9
Introducing a 100% free coding agent with DeepSeek v4 Pro
Choose any model, all free:
- DeepSeek v4 Pro/Flash
- Kimi K2.6
- MiniMax M2.7
npm i -g freebuff
Hermes agent's tui got REALLY good
@NousResearch and @Teknium improved it so much that hiding it inside a weak web/chat wrapper feels wrong now
Hermes Desktop v0.9.0 is out and it's not a fake chat UI.
It’s a clean, safe door to your agent
SSH to your host
open Hermes
work 🚀