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Hob is an MIT-licensed desktop app that works on your files like Claude Cowork, with the model on your machine

Shown on HN Oct 26, Hob runs open-weight models (Gemma 4, gpt-oss) through llama.cpp on Mac, Windows or Linux, picks one for your hardware, and can read and edit a folder, look at images, add MCP connectors and run Python in a sandbox that only writes to the chat's folder with no network unless asked. Only web search and MCP connectors you add go online, and one tester notes it pulled about 18 GB of models with no cleanup yet.

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Claude Code 2.1.311 compacts past 200K tokens instead of stopping, and lets ultrathink raise effort mid-turn

Released Oct 26, standard context sessions that run over 200K tokens now compact and keep going instead of stopping with "Usage credits required for 1M context", and typing ultrathink while Claude works bumps the rest of that turn to xhigh effort. It also fixes startup freezes from long CLAUDE.md list items, Write and Edit stalling on huge files, and subagents missing MCP tools from servers that connect late…

GitHub (anthropics/claude-code)

Perplexity Computer adds a /graphify skill that maps any public GitHub repo into a code knowledge graph

Live Oct 27 in the Computer skills marketplace, /graphify plus a public repo link turns the codebase into a graph of files, functions, calls and imports, with each edge tied to its file and line so answers can point at the code. Runs are free through Oct 31 (up to 5,000 credits per user), and the open source engine also works locally in Claude Code, Cursor and Gemini CLI…

Graphify Blog

Kashkeshet is a tiny Rust MCP server that lets your local coding agents open chat channels with each other

Shown on HN Oct 26, kkt gives agents just identity, channels and chat on 127.0.0.1:7420 , with kkt connect claude code write (or codex, opencode, agy) wiring up the client and a web page where you watch them self organize. Security is only a shared access key meant to stop accidental connections, so keep it on localhost or behind Tailscale ACLs (Show HN)…

GitHub (sam-mfb/kashkeshet)

Itential open-sources AI Skills to run its infra automation platform from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor

Announced Oct 27, three open source skill packs let you build workflows and FlowAgents, run and debug jobs, or manage users, roles and integrations on the Itential Platform in plain language from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Copilot in VS Code or Cursor. Actions run with your configured Itential credentials and permissions, and you need an Itential environment to use them…

Itential

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