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Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
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Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
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Game Bytes
Ready, set, jam! Game Off is GitHub’s annual month-long game jam where developers, artists, and dreamers team up (or go solo) to make something amazing in November. Use any language, engine, or tool you like. We’ll reveal the secret theme on Nov 1. First-timers absolutely welcome.
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Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
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Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.
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Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.
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Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork
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Made in Brazil
Open source projects built in or receiving significant contributions from Brazil :brazil:
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Slack + GitHub
Bring your code to the conversations you care about with the GitHub and Slack app. A separate Slack subscription is required. With two of your most important workspaces connected, you’ll get updates about what’s happening on GitHub—without leaving Slack.
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The fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM]
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Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
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ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers
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[ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award Candidate] LingBot-Map: Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
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SwiftUI agent skill for Claude Code, Codex, and other AI tools.
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Renovate
Mend Renovate | Dependency Update Automation
Renovate: an open-source tool which automatically creates pull requests for all types of dependency updates. Includes crowdsourced test and package adoption data are used to flag potentially risky updates and enable auto-merging for those that meet user-defined conditions.
How Renovate works:
- Scans your repos to detect dependencies (wide package manager support)
- Checks if any newer versions exist
- Raises PRs for available updates
