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Andrew Warner and Adam highlight 10 trending GitHub repos covering AI agents, memory, voice cloning, AI engineering, financial workflows, web development, design, command-line tools, Claude skills, and coding workflows.

This week’s roundup features Paperclip, an agent organization platform that gives AI agents an org chart, task management, and permissions for collaborative agent work. Hindsight provides persistent AI memory, while VoiceStudio offers local voice cloning as an alternative to hosted voice services. The list also includes a free AI engineering course, Anthropic’s Financial Services skills, Next.js security updates, Impeccable for giving coding agents a stronger design sense, CLI-Anything for turning applications into command-line interfaces, Claude Skills with job-specific playbooks and personas, and Claude Code Templates for quickly adding skills, commands, and settings.

Repos Featured:

- paperclipai/paperclip — https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip
- vectorize-io/hindsight — https://github.com/vectorize-io/hindsight
- debpalash/VoiceStudio — https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio
- rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch — https://github.com/rohitg00/ai....-engineering-from-sc
- anthropics/financial-services — https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services
- vercel/next.js — https://github.com/vercel/next.js
- pbakaus/impeccable — https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable
- HKUDS/CLI-Anything — https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything
- alirezarezvani/claude-skills — https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills
- davila7/claude-code-templates — https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

00:00 - Paperclip: Organize agents with tasks and permissions
03:59 - Hindsight: Give agents persistent memory
05:41 - VoiceStudio: Clone voices locally for free
08:23 - AI Engineering From Scratch: Learn AI engineering step-by-step
09:37 - Financial Services: Build financial workflows with Claude
11:42 - Next.js: Understand recent security fixes
14:28 - Impeccable: Give coding agents better design
16:36 - CLI-Anything: Turn apps into agent-friendly CLIs
18:51 - Claude Skills: Add job-specific AI playbooks
20:05 - Claude Code Templates: Quickly add coding tools
21:36 - AI Safety: Be careful with downloaded plugins
22:00 - Codex: Automate food and ride bookings
22:20 - Grok Bot: Bring AI agents into team Slack
22:57 - AI Agents: Turn office photos into interactive maps

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