Tools
What we run every day. For each one we explain what it is, what we use it for, and where it fits in our stack.
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is an autonomous AI agent that calls tools, builds memory and learns from its own work. It is the base of our daily automation and multi-host agent setup.
MCP
MCP is the open protocol that connects AI applications to external data sources and tools. It is the tool layer underneath the agents we run.
MCPHub
MCPHub is an open-source, self-hosted MCP gateway: it aggregates many MCP servers behind one stable endpoint, with groups, tool routing and access control.
Coding agents
Cursor
Cursor is an AI-first editor and coding agent: rules, MCP tools and cloud agents in one surface, with final verification left to the developer.
opencode
opencode is an open source terminal AI coding agent with a client and server split, 75+ model providers and MCP tools. We use it for scripted code work.
Codex
Codex CLI is the local coding agent from OpenAI for the terminal: an OS-enforced sandbox, its own approval policy and a non-interactive mode for CI.
Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal coding agent: it reads and edits files, runs shell commands, and puts every sensitive action behind an approval step.
Agent team
Paperclip
Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of AI agents: issues, heartbeats, adapters and budgets in one place. We run it self-hosted on Docker.
Agent Zero
Agent Zero is an open source agent framework that hands the agent a full Linux system in a Docker container, where it works with real programs.
A2A
A2A is the open protocol that lets separate AI agents discover each other, hand over stateful tasks and report progress over three update channels.
Local AI
Llama
Llama is Meta's family of large language models whose weights can be downloaded and run on your own hardware, under a bespoke licence.
LM Studio
LM Studio is a desktop app that runs local language models and serves an OpenAI-compatible API on port 1234 from the same loaded model.
gpt-oss
gpt-oss is OpenAI's open-weight model family: two sizes under Apache 2.0. We run it on a single workstation for translation and batch jobs.
Open WebUI
Open WebUI is a self-hosted, extensible web interface for local and cloud models: it speaks Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs and adds accounts and permissions.
Whisper
Whisper is the open multilingual speech recognition model family: it turns audio into text, detects the spoken language and translates to English, locally.
Media generation
Forge
Forge is a browser-driven build of Stable Diffusion WebUI: it loads checkpoints, LoRAs and extensions locally, with its own memory management and faster inference.
FLUX
FLUX is Black Forest Labs' image model family: 12B and 32B rectified flow transformers whose open weights carry per-variant licence terms.
FramePack
FramePack is a next-frame prediction video generator that packs its input context to a fixed length, so 6 GB of VRAM is enough and cost does not grow with clip length.
LoRA
LoRA is low-rank adaptation: the pre-trained weights stay frozen and only two small update matrices are trained, so fine-tuning costs far less memory.
Automation
n8n
n8n is the fair-code workflow automation tool we self-host: a visual node editor, code nodes, scheduled runs and a searchable execution history.
Docker
Docker is the open container platform we run self-hosted services on: images, volumes and networks, described per stack in a single Compose file.
Buzz
Buzz is a self-hostable workspace on a Nostr relay where humans and AI agents share the same channels, each identity signed by its own keypair.
Publishing
Postiz
Postiz is an open-source social media scheduler we run on our own server: one calendar for every channel, plus a public API that automations publish through.
Facebook API
The Meta Graph API is an HTTP based interface of nodes, edges and fields, with token based access, versioned endpoints, documented rate limits and error codes.
TikTok API
TikTok for Developers is the platform's own API surface: Login Kit for OAuth, Display API for the creator's own data and Content Posting API for publishing.
Web development
Astro
Astro renders content-driven sites to HTML at build time, adds interactivity only through islands, and organises Markdown entries with typed content collections.
WordPress
WordPress is an open source content management system built on PHP and MySQL: themes and plugins shape the site, and its REST API serves content as JSON.
Vercel
Vercel is a managed platform that builds and deploys from a Git push, gives every branch a preview environment and runs server side code as functions.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare runs the authoritative DNS for our zones, proxies web traffic through its network and CDN, and Tunnel publishes self-hosted services without an inbound port.
Development environment
VS Code
Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor we shape with extensions, used on Windows workstations and against remote Linux hosts and containers.
Android Studio
Android Studio is the official Android IDE from Google: an IntelliJ-based editor, Gradle builds, the SDK Manager, an emulator and a documented signing and release flow.
Git
Git is a distributed version control system: every commit is a content addressed snapshot, while branches, merges and remotes stay cheap local operations.
Memory and knowledge base
OpenViking
OpenViking is an open-source context database for AI agents: knowledge, memory and skills in one viking:// filesystem with layered, scoped retrieval.
Graphiti
Graphiti is an open source framework for temporal knowledge graphs: it derives entities and facts from ingested episodes and stores a validity window on every fact.
Data layer
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is the object-relational database in our container stack: MVCC transactions, extensions such as pgvector, pg_dump and WAL backups, documented limits.
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is the open source column oriented OLAP database we run: MergeTree tables, a sparse primary index, materialised views and the documented limits.
Qdrant
Qdrant is an open source vector database: it stores points in collections, speeds up similarity search with an HNSW index and narrows results through payload filters.
Own servers
nginx
nginx is the HTTP server and reverse proxy in front of our self-hosted services: TLS termination, hostname based routing and upstream groups.
Linux
The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system; a distribution adds package management, an init system and the permission model. It runs our server hosts.
Home Assistant
Home Assistant is the open smart home platform we run on our own hardware: integrations tie devices together locally instead of through vendor clouds.
MQTT
MQTT is a lightweight publish and subscribe messaging standard: a broker routes messages, clients publish and subscribe to topics. It links our sensors.