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The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Preferring Local OSS LLMs Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B Open Models have crossed a threshold Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API. hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM. Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction. LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust. OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community. Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills. Tunarr API Reference Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile) Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules. Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.