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Curated posts from HappyMonkey — product builds, agent systems, and practical AI delivery. Daily grants/models/tooling roundups stay on the legacy WordPress site for now.

2026-07-19

The night our MCP servers started working as a system

Share X in f Reddit Email Last night I saw something I had been hoping for, but had not yet seen happen cleanly in a real project. Hermes needed to pass review findings to another coding agent, start a substantial piece of work, avoid overloading the local server, and keep enough

2026-07-16

GOSafe: location-based disaster risk intelligence for real places and dates

Share X in f Reddit Email GOSafe (live at gosafe.happymonkey.ai) is our prototype for location-based disaster risk intelligence. It combines current events, official forecasts, and carefully bounded AI interpretation to answer a practical question: what should I watch around this

2026-07-16

OpenUKPublicDataMCP: one MCP endpoint for useful UK public data

Share X in f Reddit Email Agents are only as good as the facts they can reach. OpenUKPublicDataMCP is a no-key-first Model Context Protocol server that gives Claude, Hermes, Cursor, and other MCP clients one reliable place to ask common UK public-data questions — with sources att

2026-07-16

miso-tts-docker: local Miso TTS 8B on Windows, Docker Desktop, and RTX 50-series

Share X in f Reddit Email High-quality local speech is finally useful for agents and demos — if you can get the GPU stack to boot. miso-tts-docker is our unofficial Docker Compose pack for running Miso TTS 8B on NVIDIA GPUs, with a special focus on Windows, Docker Desktop, and RT

2026-07-16

Resource Sentinel MCP: stop local AI agents from melting the host

Share X in f Reddit Email When you run many coding agents, tests, and models on one machine, the failure mode is boring and expensive: OOM kills, thrashing disks, and mysterious hangs. Resource Sentinel MCP is our answer — telemetry plus lease-based admission control that agents

2026-07-16

PromptOS: an AI-first Linux installer that never builds the same machine twice

Share X in f Reddit Email Most installers ship a fixed menu of packages. PromptOS is different: a minimal live bootstrap that asks high-level questions, talks to your LLM provider, and generates a hardware-aware installation blueprint on the fly. The problem with static install m

2026-07-08

How Tokenization Powers (and Limits) Modern LLMs

Share X in f Reddit Email When you type a prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you’re not sending words. Your text is instantly broken into tokens — the fundamental units the model actually processes. Tokenization turns human language into the numerical units LLMs actually und

2026-07-06

Building repo.spot: How We Used Qwen Cloud and Alibaba Function Compute to Create an Autonomous DevSecOps Agent

Share X in f Reddit Email This post documents the journey of building repo.spot for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud — an autonomous DevSecOps review agent powered by Qwen on Alibaba Cloud. The Problem Security vulnerabilities in open-source repositories are found,

2026-07-02

12 Simple Python AI Starter Projects for Beginners

Share X in f Reddit Email Starting your AI coding journey does not mean jumping straight into deep learning. Here is a curated list of approachable Python projects—from classic ML exercises to lightweight apps you can ship with Streamlit—ordered from easiest to slightly more invo

2026-06-10

A2M update: local AI security audits, web submissions, and repository verification

Share X in f Reddit Email I shipped some important new features for A2M today. The latest roadmap update is all about bridging the gap between local AI development, security, and marketplace visibility. 1. Local AI-powered security scanning The biggest change is a first-pass DevS

2026-06-10

Vibes TUI v0.1.3: a smarter AI agent harness with triage steering, stability fixes, and multi-provider support

Share X in f Reddit Email Vibes TUI just got a meaningful upgrade. The latest release focuses on making the agent harness more resilient, more configurable, and easier to use in real work. What changed The headline feature is TriageAgent — a background observer that watches for t

2026-06-02

The Agentic Fork in the Road: Claude Code vs. Hermes Agent (And Why the Hype Has It Wrong)

Share X in f Reddit Email If you spend ten minutes scrolling tech forums or AI newsletters right now, the consensus on terminal-bound AI coding assistants seems simple. You’ve got Anthropic’s shiny new Claude Code CLI on one side for engineering, and open-source autonomous framew

2026-05-25

Vibe Station: Visualising AI Workflows in Real Time

Share X in f Reddit Email The latest Vibe Station updates are all about one thing: making AI work feel visible. When you’re building with AI, it’s easy to end up with a pile of prompts, logs, outputs, and disconnected tools. The result is a workflow that works, but doesn’t always

2026-05-24

We Built an AI Phone Assistant That Answers Calls, Captures Leads, and Follows Up Automatically

Share X in f Reddit Email AI can already write code, summarize research, and automate inboxes — but one of the most practical business wins is much simpler: answering the phone well. We built an AI assistant that answers calls, speaks naturally, captures caller details in real ti

2026-05-24

ACE EU AI: Local-First Compliance for the EU AI Act

Share X in f Reddit Email AI teams are building fast, but the EU AI Act deadline is looming. The problem? You can’t use cloud-reliant compliance tools to audit your system if your security policies bar you from leaking proprietary source code or model configurations outside your

2026-03-25

The Developer’s Dilemma 2025: Why Google AI Pro is the Full-Stack Winner

Share X in f Reddit Email The Developer’s Dilemma 2025: Why Google AI Pro is the Full-Stack Winner As a developer in late 2025, the market is no longer just about “which AI is smartest.” It’s about which ecosystem actually solves the end-to-end development cycle. Key Insights Goo

2026-03-09

AI-Powered Personal Assistant MCP Server

Share X in f Reddit Email AI-Powered Personal Assistant MCP Server Deploy a digital personal assistant that connects your calendar, Google Sheets, Gmail, and more—all orchestrated for ultimate productivity. This workflow aggregates meeting schedules, reminders, document tasks, an