Small Tools for AI Development

Tools built for AI to use

• jqi — structural JSON profiler so an agent can grasp the shape of a huge JSON blob without paying to read all of it. — post · github
• mcp_gateway_maker (the MCP filter) — AI-built tool for making MCP proxies with security features: a layer in front of a server that rewrites or blocks each call. — post · github
• claudenlos — static analyzer over Claude’s logs that finds, tool by tool, where the tokens actually go. — post · github
• zsh-reap — zsh plugin that tracks long-running foreground jobs and lets an agent (or you) restart them from another terminal. — post · github

Watching and orchestrating agents

• tasklight — always-on-top desktop overlay (HUD) for watching local AI coding agents work. — post · github
• tmux-orchestra — pure-POSIX-shell tmux plugin exposing an orchestra CLI for agent status, notifications, and prompt-published context, rendered in a dedicated sidebar pane. — github

Harnesses you can read

• KittenClaw — minimal, readable chat harness for teaching the agentic loop; runs on free tiers. — post · github
• benchclaw — ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant / agentic testbed (Telegram and other channels). — github
• TeachClaw — in-class teaching assistant students chat with on Telegram. It’s the chat layer over the knowledge bases below, citing every claim through the citation back-pressure system. — github

Knowledge bases agents read from

• knowledgebase-agenticai — curated workshop corpus for the agentic-AI lecture; owns the library only, served to the bot over MCP with citations. — github
• knowledgebase-businessai — curated reference library for the AI-in-business lecture: ingest scripts, manifests, and a search/fetch_doc MCP server. — github
• cute-db — indexes cute-animal images and clips with a vision-language model, stores descriptions in SQLite, and serves keyword search over MCP (a testing/demo corpus). — github