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Underground AI finds the AI tools nobody talks about and tests them. Real installs, real terminal sessions, real results. No hype, no sponsored fluff. New Shorts weekly on hidden AI tools, workflows, automation. Business: jacob.christie012@gmail.com

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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OpenAPPA: open source guardrail that stops prompt injection with one TOML policy file. Zero keys to install, attack traces replayed: curl pipe sh denied after untrusted web content, outsider email denied after an HR file read. Offline, deterministic, MIT licensed. github.com/archestra-ai/OpenAPPA
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Open Montage: the open-source system that turns your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio. 63k GitHub stars, AGPL licensed, zero API keys for the free tier (offline voice, open footage, local render). github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ponytail: a free ruleset for coding agents, the seven-rung ladder for writing less code. Demo: 116 lines of debounce down to 10, same model, same prompt. 146k stars, MIT. github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Headroom: compresses everything your agent reads (tool outputs, logs, files), 100% locally, no API key. My real run: 47,712 chars down to 14,141, a 70% cut. 73.9k stars, Apache 2.0. github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pipedream: automation for people who code. Real Node.js, Python, or Go in every step, 10,000+ prebuilt tools across 3,000+ APIs. I ran a real workflow step locally on their runtime against the live GitHub API. Free plan: 100 credits/month. pipedream.com
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sepia: a de-AI writing skill for agent frameworks, built on real research. My run: its review flagged the AI tells in a release note, the recreate went 132 words to 31 with zero slop left. Free, MIT. github.com/Nanako0129/sepia
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reverify: an anti-hallucination layer for agents that read binaries. Model proposes a claim, deterministic tools check the real bytes. My run on /bin/ls: 2 verified, 2 refuted. Free, MIT. github.com/2akouwu/reverify
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
awesome-gpt-image-2: a free open-source prompt engine with 541 reverse-engineered image cases and 21 industrial templates. Every case is a full production prompt you can steal. 33k stars, MIT. github.com/freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Part 1 of 2: if Paperclip is the company, OpenClaw is the employee. An open-source personal AI agent that runs from your messages: shell commands, scraping, scheduled jobs. 390k stars, MIT. github.com/openclaw/openclaw
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Autoprompt: a skill for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and 8 more agents that forces self-review. Terminal Bench: 29 failures down to 16, 45% fewer. One npm install. github.com/Spielewoy/autoprompt-skill
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Archify: an agent skill that draws verifiable system architecture diagrams as self-contained HTML. I ran it on real code: 9 validation checks passed, 806 KB interactive file, verified in a browser. 72k stars, MIT. github.com/tt-a1i/archify
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
D-Engine: a deterministic harness for LLM code edits. The model proposes, a real compiler gate decides. I ran it for real: clean patch merged, broken patch rejected. Author reports 14-42x fewer tokens. MIT. github.com/corruchaga/D-Engine
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Caveman: one free skill file that makes your coding agent answer in terse fragments with the same accuracy. My real measurement: 63 tokens to 22. 108k stars, works in 30+ agents. github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
TOON: Token-Oriented Object Notation, a compact human-readable JSON alternative for LLM prompts. My real run: 482 tokens to 185, 62% fewer, byte-identical roundtrip. 25k stars, MIT. github.com/toon-format/toon
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Codewhale (formerly DeepSeek TUI): a community-built terminal coding agent, 41k stars, MIT licensed. One-command install, plan mode, approval gates, live cost tracking per turn, provider-neutral. github.com/Hmbown/Codewhale
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ContextPress: a free Python library that deterministically compresses context before it reaches the LLM. My real run: 212 tokens in, 167 out, 45 saved. No API key, no model call. github.com/Taha-azizi/contextpress
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Paperclip: the open-source app people use to manage AI agents for work. 86k stars, MIT licensed. github.com/paperclipai/paperclip
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Underground AI @theundergroundai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RTK: an open-source Rust tool that compresses LLM context to cut token consumption 60-90%. Free. github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
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