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GestureShot-Pro: Gesture-controlled screenshot tool with AI-powered hand tracking
GetG: interactive product demo library for UX reverse-engineering
A library of real product flows you can click through to study empty states, transitions and microcopy. Can extract design tokens and connect to Claude via MCP to recreate any screen. Currently free.
An honesty system prompt that stops Claude inventing sources
Claude confidently invents sources, stats and quotes unless instructed otherwise. The fix treats honesty as an operating rule: separate verified facts from guesses, flag uncertain stats and label unverifiable claims.
lore: GitHub-style sharing for Claude Code sessions
A team tool that visualizes and shares Claude Code conversation threads: decision maps, team presence, and RAG over all threads to ask how a feature was built. Aims at the 'did you even read your own PR' review problem.
Five Claude debugging prompts that actually change behavior
A beginner distilled 50 debugging prompts down to five that work. Highest leverage: the 'assume you're wrong' prompt asking for three alternative causes, and a self-review prompt that gets past Claude's first-guess.
Lumbox MCP: 73 tools with a credential vault the agent cannot read
A commercial MCP server covering email, OTP extraction, stealth browsing, meeting joins and mail RAG. Standout pattern: a zero-knowledge credential vault where the server fills login forms and the LLM never sees the.
DataMoat: encrypted local vault for AI session transcripts
DataMoat auto-captures session files from Claude CLI, Codex, Cursor and OpenClaw, normalizes them into a common schema and encrypts with AES-256-GCM. Thesis: AI work traces are private data assets worth preserving.
Free scanner checks whether a site is invisible to AI crawlers
A free tool scores any URL on 8 AI-relevance signals and generates a ready /llms.txt file. The four pillars: clean HTML, JSON-LD structured data, a robots.txt that permits AI bots, and llms.txt.
How to turn any non-fiction book into a Claude skill
A 6-step method distills a book's repeatable framework into a SKILL.md slash command using five extraction questions. Only books with numbered-step frameworks work; big books split into diagnose and apply skills.
I built a free Google search MCP that actually works
`google-surf-mcp` - TS/Playwright stealth MCP, no API key. 4 tools: `search`, `search_parallel`, `extract(url)`, `search_extract(query)` (search + article extraction in one call). Auto CAPTCHA recovery: Chrome opens v...
Twitter just dropped an official MCP server
Official MCP server from X's developer platform org (`xdevplatform`). 150+ tools covering posts, search, DMs, user ops, bookmarks, analytics. Python/FastMCP, runs on localhost:8000/mcp. Key feature: tool allowlist - d...
'No hedge words': negative constraints beat positive ones for tone control
Adding 'no hedge words' to a prompt strips uncertainty framing that RLHF-trained models lean on, forcing commitment to specific claims. One test dropped an AI-detector score from 0.91 to 0.18 on a rewritten cold email.
MCP decision trees versus static skill files
Static SKILL.md files dump full context up front and cause drift in complex workflows. The alternative: encode workflows as MCP-delivered decision trees where the agent sees one step at a time and server-side logic.
jCodeMunch MCP: AST indexing claims 95% token reduction for code reading
An MCP server that indexes a codebase once with tree-sitter and lets agents retrieve exact functions and symbols instead of reading whole files.
PenClaw: AI pentesting agent with 50+ preloaded security tools
PenClaw runs an uncensored LLM on H100 hardware with 128K context and 50+ tools including nmap, nuclei and SQLmap. One command triggers recon, scanning, exploitation and reporting. Hosted at $20 per month.
Viral '178x token reduction' claims debunked; memory is the hard problem
A satirical debunk shows viral token-reduction math ignores output tokens, cache writes and multi-turn costs. The real point: retrieval is largely solved, persistent memory across sessions is the unsolved problem for.
Snipboard: batch screenshot tool aimed at Claude workflows
Snipboard captures multiple screen regions in sequence and batch-copies them as Markdown image links, so one paste gives Claude full visual context. Windows, offline-first, with a $9.99 Pro tier.
codeburn: token usage analyzer for Claude Code sessions
codeburn reads Claude Code project JSONL files and breaks down where tokens go. The author found 56% of weekly spend was conversation turns with zero tool use, while actual coding accounted for only 20%.
Claude MCP connectors enable no-code access to Gmail, Calendar and Notion
Claude's built-in MCP connectors allow direct Gmail, Calendar, Notion, HubSpot and Stripe access without writing code, with a roughly 2-minute setup per tool. Popular use: automated morning briefings.