# Toolsmith Weekly

> Indie and experimental AI tools, clearly explained, every week.

Toolsmith Weekly is an independent discovery publication covering indie, experimental, open-source and overlooked AI tools for coding, vibe coding, automation, games, and security, with close attention to what works from a phone. Where our info comes from: official pricing pages, docs and public announcements, linked on every tool page. Written with AI help and reviewed for accuracy. The directory currently lists 68 tools. Tools added after 2026-10-20 and within the last 7 days are marked New this week on the website only. That badge is not used in the weekly editions. The first batch is labeled Launch week.

## Pages

- [Home](https://toolsmithweekly.com/): Landing page with This Week's Stars, categories, and the latest letter.
- [Tool directory](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/): Search, filter by category, free tier, and letter, and sort the full list. A to Z is the default sort. Newest is available from the sort control and from ?sort=newest. Category links use a ?cat= query. A text search uses ?q=.
- [This week](https://toolsmithweekly.com/this-week.html): This week's picks, each with a sourced reason, plus other tools added in the seven days up to the newest date in the directory.
- [Weekly editions](https://toolsmithweekly.com/newsletter/): Weekly editions, published on the website. [Issue #2](https://toolsmithweekly.com/newsletter/2/) is dated Friday, Oct 30, 2026, and [Issue #1](https://toolsmithweekly.com/newsletter/1/) Friday, Oct 23, 2026. /issues/, /archive/, and /newsletters/ redirect here.
- [About](https://toolsmithweekly.com/about/): What Toolsmith Weekly covers, the five mobile tiers, how listings are researched, and who makes it.
- [Suggest a tool](https://toolsmithweekly.com/suggest/): Indie developers can email hello@toolsmithweekly.com with a tool suggestion.

## Tools

- [dsh-superagent-prototype](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/dsh-superagent-prototype.html): A research prototype from DeepSeek that its README describes as "a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository, packaged as a bundle for DeepSeek Harness." New this week.
- [agent-desktop](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/agent-desktop.html): A Rust tool from Vercel Labs that lets agents operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree instead of screenshots. New this week.
- [ProductOS Mobile](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/productos-mobile.html): An iPhone and iPad app from One Infinity Labs, Inc. (ProductOS), live on the App Store and free to download, that tries to fit a whole app studio onto your phone: you describe a mobile app, website or web app by typing, dictating or photographing a sketch, and a coding agent builds it in a cloud sandbox. New this week.
- [OpenCode](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/opencode.html): The open-source coding agent, which added a Claude Agent provider in v2.2.3 on Oct 30 that runs Claude models through your own Claude Code login, using the Claude Agent SDK. New this week.
- [tstack](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/tstack.html): A pack of nine agent skills for Claude Code and Codex, which its developer describes as "the agent skills I use every day."
- [Simulon](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/simulon.html): An iPhone app that turns a photo, sketch or text prompt into a 3D asset, lets you place it in your room in AR and act out a scene, then renders a described action as a video.
- [Hob](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/hob.html): A free desktop AI app from Frigade that works on your files like the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps, but runs an open-weight model on your own computer.
- [Grim Prompter](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/grim-prompter.html): A threat-modeling skill for Claude Code and Codex, also usable by other agents through an AGENTS.md snippet, that the maker says produces an "evidence-traced" threat model.
- [Floorplan](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/floorplan.html): A plugin for Claude Code and Codex that reads your codebase and draws an interactive map, giving every part, file and web request a plain-English name and showing how they connect.
- [Farol](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/farol.html): A CLI and GitHub Action that runs after an AI code review and shows the person approving a pull request the riskiest files, what they reach, diff coverage and contract breaks.
- [DOOMFORMER](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/doomformer.html): Compiles an integer neural network into a DOOM map, where voodoo dolls do the arithmetic and light levels and floor heights hold the values.
- [Corgi](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/corgi.html): A terminal multiplexer for running several coding agents at once, with an activity feed, a jump-to-next-unread key and one launcher for multiple agents and accounts.
- [Castellan](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/castellan.html): A small indie real-time strategy game for coding agents, where the clock keeps running while the agent thinks and each agent plays by uploading a JavaScript script for every unit type.
- [Agent](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/agent.html): An open-source, always-on AI assistant that runs on an Android phone, with its own browser, a wiki-style memory and optional SSH machines for heavy jobs. You bring the model.
- [qwen3-4b-deslop](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/qwen3-4b-deslop.html): A Qwen3-4B fine-tune that drops common AI writing tics. The author reports the slop score fell from 121 to 12.5 per 1,000 words. It runs locally with Ollama.
- [WorldTUI](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/worldtui.html): A 360M-parameter model trained to act as a terminal, predicting the next screen from each keypress. A 208 MB demo runs in the browser.
- [VS Code](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/vs-code.html): Code editor. The 1.143 release notes add a Compare models preview that sends one task to two or more models, with optional Judge and Synthesize steps.
- [Trivy](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/trivy.html): Open-source Apache-2.0 scanner for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets across container images, Kubernetes, and code repositories.
- [Kapitsa](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/kapitsa.html): Inference engine for Apple silicon that runs Qwen and Nemotron models locally, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Apache-2.0.
- [Infisical](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/infisical.html): Open-source secrets manager with a self-hostable MIT core. Agent Vault lets AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode call APIs without holding the keys.
- [fx0](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/fx0.html): An open-source design agent: describe a page and it writes the whole thing as a single HTML file, keeping a version for every turn. It starts from ten design styles or your own design.md.
- [earshot](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/earshot.html): Gives coding agents "ears": it describes sounds in words, finds moments in long recordings and critiques the audio of whole videos. It runs locally on CPU as a CLI, Python API and MCP server.
- [Voxtral 3](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/voxtral-3.html): Mistral's speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK that listens, reasons, calls tools and speaks in one real-time pipeline. Transcription covers 50+ languages, and you can use Mistral's EU-hosted API or self-deploy.
- [TV Detox](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/tv-detox.html): A copy-paste prompt and a tiny home screen that let Claude Code or Codex clean up a slow Android TV, asking before every change and keeping an undo list. Its prompt warns that a few TVs have gotten stuck at the logo.
- [Socket](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/socket.html): Supply-chain security that detects and blocks malicious or risky open-source dependencies.
- [Snyk](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/snyk.html): Security platform covering open-source dependencies (SCA), code (SAST), infrastructure as code and containers.
- [Semgrep](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/semgrep.html): Code scanning platform for SAST, supply chain (SCA) and secrets detection, with AI-assisted triage and fixes.
- [Recursive Flint](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/recursive-flint.html): An open-weight coding model from Recursive, with 39.8B total parameters and about 2.5B active per token, built for coding agents that investigate codebases, fix bugs and write tests. It's Apache-2.0 and ships with an SGLang serving kit.
- [NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/nvidia-nemo-guardrails.html): Open-source toolkit for adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational applications.
- [Mercury 3](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/mercury-3.html): A diffusion-based LLM that Inception says runs at more than 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context window. It's OpenAI API compatible and available on Inception's API, OpenRouter, Baseten and Vercel.
- [Lakera](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/lakera.html): AI security platform for runtime protection of GenAI apps and agents, workforce AI use and AI red teaming.
- [GitHub Advanced Security](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/github-advanced-security.html): GitHub's paid security add-ons: Secret Protection and Code Security (code scanning, Copilot Autofix, dependency review).
- [GitGuardian](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/gitguardian.html): Secrets detection and non-human identity (NHI) security across code, CI/CD and developer tools.
- [Co-op Anything](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/co-op-anything.html): A playbook, skills and an MCP server that let a coding agent turn a single-player PC game into co-op, by reviving an existing mod or reverse engineering the game, then testing with in-game bots. It hosts no game files and avoids anti-cheat and online services.
- [CleanYourTV](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/cleanyourtv.html): A prompt and a small launcher that let Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI switch off the ads and bloatware on an Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and put a clean, Apple TV-style home screen on it. Nothing is uninstalled, one command undoes it, and since version 3 there are optional add-ons and a no-root guide for Samsung, LG and Roku TVs.
- [Beam](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/beam.html): Brings windows from another Mac, such as agents running on a headless Mac mini, onto the Mac in front of you as real windows with their own Dock icons. Traffic goes directly between your Macs, encrypted.
- [v0](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/v0.html): Vercel's AI app and UI builder.
- [n8n](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/n8n.html): Fair-code workflow automation with an AI Agent node; self-hostable.
- [Unity AI agent plugin](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/unity-ai-agent-plugin.html): Unity's official agent plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build (Unity 6+).
- [Tabnine](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/tabnine.html): AI code assistant focused on enterprise deployment.
- [Scenario](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/scenario.html): Game art generator that trains models on your own style.
- [Rosebud AI](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/rosebud-ai.html): No-code builder for playable browser games from prompts.
- [Replit](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/replit.html): Cloud IDE with Replit Agent that builds and deploys apps from prompts.
- [OpenAI Codex](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/openai-codex.html): OpenAI's coding agent for local and background 'go fix this issue' tasks.
- [OpenAI Agent Builder](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/openai-agent-builder.html): Visual canvas for multi-step agent workflows.
- [Microsoft Copilot Studio](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/microsoft-copilot-studio.html): Low-code agent builder for Microsoft 365.
- [Meshy](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/meshy.html): Text- and image-to-3D model generation.
- [Manus](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/manus.html): Autonomous general agent for one-off research and analysis tasks.
- [Make](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/make.html): Visual automation platform with credit-based scenarios.
- [Ludo.ai](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/ludo-ai.html): Game concepting and market research assistant.
- [Lovable](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/lovable.html): Chat-to-app builder for websites and web apps, no coding needed.
- [Lindy](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/lindy.html): Prebuilt AI assistant you customize; positioned as a Slack-native teammate.
- [Leonardo AI](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/leonardo-ai.html): 2D image generator for concept art, textures and key art.
- [Layer AI](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/layer-ai.html): Usage-based art production platform for game studios, unlimited seats.
- [Inworld](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/inworld.html): Real-time voice and speech API for AI characters and NPCs.
- [Gumloop](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/gumloop.html): AI workflow builder billing at cost of tokens and tools plus a fee.
- [Godot AI](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/godot-ai.html): Free MIT plugin connecting Claude Code, Codex and other agents to a running Godot editor (46 tools).
- [GitHub Copilot Pro](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/github-copilot-pro.html): GitHub's AI pair programmer with agent mode inside popular editors.
- [ElevenLabs](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/elevenlabs.html): AI voice generation for voiceover, dialogue and sound.
- [Dify](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/dify.html): Platform for building LLM apps and agents, with a cloud Sandbox tier.
- [Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/devin-desktop-formerly-windsurf.html): Windsurf's editor, now Devin Desktop, plus Devin Cloud agents and the SWE-2 model.
- [Cursor](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/cursor.html): AI code editor where you review each agent change before accepting it. Disclosure: Cursor is bundled with The X Subscription (per Cursor's docs).
- [Claude Code](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/claude-code.html): Anthropic's terminal coding agent for multi-file refactors and features.
- [Bolt.new](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/bolt-new.html): Prompt-to-app builder in the browser by StackBlitz.
- [Base44](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/base44.html): AI app builder for building apps from natural language.
- [Amazon Q Developer](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/amazon-q-developer.html): AWS's AI coding assistant.
- [Activepieces](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/activepieces.html): Open-source automation platform with AI pieces.
- [AI by Zapier](https://toolsmithweekly.com/tools/ai-by-zapier.html): Zapier's AI step, formerly Zapier Agents, that reasons and acts with tools inside any Zap.