AppControl MCP Server An MCP server that gives AI agents and IDEs like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf read-only access to historical resource usage and system security data gathered by the AppControl Windows app, including binaries, publishe…
#windsurf
60 items
Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com via hn) Tool that auto-generates .cursor/rules from your actual CI and keeps it in sync with AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and 10 others (www.reddit.com) If you've been manually writing .cursor/rules files, this might save you time. crag analyze reads your repo — CI workflows, package.json, tsconfig, directory structure — and infers your governance rules.
Built an installable skill that lets AI agents generate professional editable PPTs (www.reddit.com) Built dom-to-pptx-skills - installable presentation-generation skills for AI agents. The goal was to move beyond template-filled slide generation and enable agents to create beautiful, professional, fully editable PowerPoint presentations…
What do you use for autocomplete in 2026? (VS Code) (www.reddit.com) I tried co pilot and windsurf but they weren't satisfying. Co pilot being not smart and windsurf too slow (I tried with free tiers).
Show HN: MCP server gives your agent a budget (save tokens, get smarter results) (l6e.ai via hn) As a consultant I foot my own Cursor bills, and last month was $1,263. Opus is too good not to use, but there's no way to cap spending per session.
OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing (github.com via hn) npm i -g @openai/codex or brew install --cask codex Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer. If you want Codex in your code editor (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf), install in your IDE.
What's the best AI workflow for building a React Native app from scratch? (www.reddit.com) I’m building a mobile app (React Native / Expo) and want to vibecode the MVP. I have limited traditional coding experience, so I’m strictly playing the "AI Director" role.
Show HN: Sverklo – repo memory for coding agents (sverklo.com via hn) Give your coding agent repo memory. Sverklo is a local-first MCP server that gives Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex-style agents your repo's symbols, callers, diffs, blast radius, and git-pinned decisions before they edit.
Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today? (news.ycombinator.com) Generally curious how folks are using LLM APIs today. Are folks doing anything bespoke, unique or different?
Windsurf 2.0 (windsurf.com via hn) Ship more with local and cloud agents working together.
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop (devin.ai via hn) We’re excited to launch the next generation of Windsurf: Devin Desktop. We’re building on the IDE foundation of Windsurf to introduce the command center for managing all your agents in one place.
A solution for schlep blindness in agentic development for Kubernetes envs (metalbear.com via hn) Turn your AI agents into autonomous developers Use mirrord to instantly validate every change against your live staging environment — multiple agents, same cluster, no conflicts. Windsurf & others or CLI No credit card needed Fast setup, n…
Audrey: Local-first memory guard for AI agents (source) (github.com via hn) The local-first memory control plane for AI agents. Give Codex, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, JetBrains, Ollama-backed agents, and custom agent services one durable memory layer they can check before they act.
Is there any trial 7/14 days currently on Cursor Pro? (www.reddit.com) Is there any trial 7/14 days currently on Cursor Pro the same way as in Windsurf?
Where I'm at with AI Assisted Building + Current and Future Workflow Overview (www.reddit.com) I've been in an AI dive bomb for probably a couple of years now. The early days...
An agent skill to enforce AI to write modern CSS (www.reddit.com) An agent skill that enforces modern CSS practices based on your project's browser targets. Covers 57+ CSS features across color, layout, selectors, animation, typography, positioning, and component patterns.
Windsurf 2.0: Introducing the Agent Command Center and Devin in Windsurf (windsurf.com via hn) Bug Fixes and Improvements - Various bug fixes and performance improvements for improving Windsurf 2.0 auth experience. - Fixed bug with spawning Terminal sessions on Windows Read the full announcement here.
Show HN: Hotel MCP server for cash and points search/booking (free) (www.gondola.ai via hn) Hi HN, I’m the co-founder of gondola.ai. We shipped an MCP server that gives AI agents access to real-time hotel search and booking for direct hotel rates across points and cash for hotel chains like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Accor, Wy…
Show HN: Stork – MCP server so Claude/Cursor can search 14k MCP servers AI tools (www.stork.ai via hn) The registry agents pull from One mcp.json line installs Stork in Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, or Zed. Search 4,349+ AI tools and 8,626+ MCP servers — indexed, ranked, ready for every agent.
Project Brain– Persistent Second Brain for Claude Code and Windsurf, Cursor etc. (raw.githubusercontent.com via hn) could not extract summary
I built a tool that lets your AI assistant test your entire app in a real browser (www.reddit.com) So i've been working on this thing called Vibe Testing for a while now and finally putting it out there. Basically it's an MCP server that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf etc.
AgentSlice – Make AI coding agents ask before they edit (github.com via hn) AgentSlice A free, open-source workflow kit for AI coding agents. Makes Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Windsurf ask before they edit.
Emerald Minimal — a clean theme with a single emerald accent (dark + light) (www.reddit.com) A minimal theme built around one emerald/teal accent on a calm UI. Dark and light variants.
Cursor free plan vs Antigravity free plan vs Windsurf free Plan. Which convince you to buy the paid plan afterwards? (www.reddit.com) What are the pros and cons of each? I have used two: cursor and antigravity cursor: I ran out of free credits on each model immediately but the ide and agent is amazing.
Glia – Local-first shared memory layer (SQLite-vec + FTS5 + Offline Knowledge Graph) (www.reddit.com) Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I've been working on called Glia. It is a 100% offline, local-first RAG and memory layer designed to connect your AI web chats (Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek) with your local developer tools (Claude Co…
I built SeeFlow - architecture diagrams that actually run, wired to your live app (www.reddit.com) Architecture diagrams rot. You spend an afternoon in Confluence, three months later it's wrong, and nobody updates it because there's no forcing function.
Show HN: YantrikDB – persistent memory for AI agents (github.com via hn) YantrikDB — A Cognitive Memory Engine for Persistent AI Systems The memory engine for AI that actually knows you. Get Started in 60 Seconds For AI agents (MCP — works with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot) pip install yantrikdb-mcp Add to…
Finlynq – Open-source personal finance app with a first-party MCP server (github.com via hn) Finlynq — Personal Finance App An open-source personal finance web app with a first-party MCP server. Track income, expenses, budgets, investments, loans, and goals — then query your financial data from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP…
[RELEASE - Open source] Via - is the universal integration layer for AI tools. (www.reddit.com) Via is the universal integration layer for AI tools. It connects Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT, LangChain, and every other AI tool to a shared context, task, and memory bus, so your work follows you across every tool, every session, an…
Claude in the editor vs terminal vs bridge. (www.reddit.com) Claude Code is excellent at writing code. Your IDE, however, already knows things the model doesn’t.
Show HN: OTel native agent to instrument applications (otex.dev via hn) Analyzes your codebase and auto-generates production-grade OpenTelemetry instrumentation without you writing a single line of code. Works in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.Analyzes your codebase and auto-generates OTel instrumentation…
I built a tool to stop Claude Code from reading half my codebase on every task and Im curious what you think (www.reddit.com) Hey everyone, I have been using Claude Code heavily for the past few months and kept running into the same problem on any non-trivial task it would grep through dozens of files, pull in tests, unrelated callers, config files, etc Token bur…
How are people handling context across different AI coding tools? (www.reddit.com) I’ve been switching between a few AI coding tools recently and the context/memory part is starting to annoy me. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.
upskill – open source skill registry for AI agents (10k+ playbooks, MIT, adversarial safety review) (www.reddit.com) AI agents are getting powerful. The tooling around them isn't keeping up.
Show HN: Hackamaps – A global hackathon map I build after hitting Lovable Limits (news.ycombinator.com) I am based in Berlin, Germany and it is superfun to travel in Europe. I always have a guilty pressure of not connecting with other hackers or builders if I visit a specific place.
I built an open-source bridge so AI agents can read WHOOP health data safely (www.reddit.com) I’ve been experimenting with a practical personal-data use case for AI agents: letting an agent understand your recovery, sleep, strain, and workouts without manually exporting data or pasting screenshots into prompts. I built an unofficia…
Non-technical founder: Is Cursor Pro worth $20/mo for React+Supabase, or am I fighting the wrong battle?` (www.reddit.com) Hey everyone, I'm a non-technical founder building a social app called Duren using AI-assisted development ("vibe coding"). My stack is React, Tailwind, and Supabase.
Best value in the 20$ range coding agents? I want the best quality and high-usage-limit I can get at that price. (www.reddit.com) I'm a compsci student and I've been using the 10$ copilot plan for about 2 years now, and it was fine for me since I did a good model distribution taking into account the complexity of the task, I was able to get through the month always u…
I built Tarn — API tests Claude Code can write, run, and debug end-to-end (open source, MCP server included) (www.reddit.com) Hey r/ClaudeAI — I just open-sourced Tarn, a CLI-first API testing tool I built collaboratively with Claude Code over the last few months. It's free, MIT-licensed, and a single static binary you install with curl | sh or cargo install.
Using local BERT to compress LLM context by 90% (Built in Rust) (www.reddit.com) Context window "brute-forcing" is expensive and slow. I built a tool called PandaFilter to solve this at the source.
Do AI IDEs lose context? ( via reddit) I have not used AI IDEs like cursor, antigravity, windsurf etc. I want to know that does models lose context in a long projects?
Best coding platform to build AI agents right now? (www.reddit.com) I’ve been exploring ways to build my own AI agents and wanted to get some real-world opinions from this community. What coding platforms or tools are you currently using or prefer?
Im creating an AI bot to SUE WINDSURF ( via reddit) could not extract summary
We built a free CLI to keep CLAUDE.md, slash commands, MCP servers, and skills in sync across machines (www.reddit.com via reddit) Midas: 100% local agent memory — no LLM at ingest, $0, nothing leaves the box (MCP + Python SDK) (www.reddit.com via reddit) Most "agent memory" tools call an LLM to extract facts on every turn — $ per token, latency, and your whole conversation goes to a provider. Midas doesn't: local embeddings + ranking only.
VS Code extension that lets you switch AI agent harnesses/skills/prompts in one click (works with Claude Code, Github Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf) (www.reddit.com via reddit) https://preview.redd.it/zhsn5dpxzj5h1.png?width=522&format=png&auto=webp&s=f026d25565ec88542849095125f927baf00f2638 I ended up maintaining a bunch of different harness markdown files for different projects based upon whether I was working…
I got tired of editing cursor/mcp.json by hand, so I built a VS Code extension that installs MCP servers in one click (www.reddit.com via reddit) Every time I wanted to try a new MCP server, I had to: - Find the npm command or npx command - Figure out where cursor/mcp.json lives on my machine - Paste it in, hope the JSON syntax is right - Restart Cursor and pray it connects After do…
Which AI model or coding agent is currently best for end-to-end app development? (Focusing on system design & architecture) (www.reddit.com) I'm planning to build a full application from scratch and want to lean on an AI model to act as my co-developer. My main priorities are top-tier system design capabilities and rock-solid coding skills.
Cursor free limit exhausted after architecture phase - what’s the best workflow now? (www.reddit.com) I used Cursor Architect/Plan mode heavily for a large project and completely exhausted the free usage limit (even across multiple accounts). Now I mainly need to BUILD module-by-module.
Advice for my next move (www.reddit.com) Been using Cursor for a month in a half and really like it. Looking for some advice from people who have already been down my road.
an alternative = similar experience to using windsurf but on local? (www.reddit.com) so i am not that experienced when it comes to llms, i just have ollama and open webui and occasionally test (play with) new releases from time to time. a few weeks ago i started using Windsurf, i do not know coding or anything but i loved…
Cursor vs Windsurf here's what actually made me switch (www.reddit.com) Someone asked me why I moved from Windsurf to Cursor. Honest answer: context.
Cursor vs. Windsurf vs. Claude Code: Which offers the highest Opus limits for a $200 budget? (www.reddit.com) Hey everyone, I'm currently trying to decide between Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code for my daily workflow. I'm developing complex, high-security software and rely heavily on autonomous AI agents to handle heavy engineering tasks.
With just one prompt, AI successfully found and emailed 200 potential investors for my startup. (www.reddit.com) I’m a solo founder, and fundraising outreach used to drain me — scraping emails, checking duplicates, writing personalized cold emails, and logging everything to Notion. Hours of grind per batch.
Is it worth it to switch to cursor from windsurf due to the usage limits now? (www.reddit.com) Hello guys! I was wondering if there are any ex-windsurf users here who could share how the rate limits in cursor compare to post pricing model change windsurf and if it’s worth the switch.
Kimi K2.6 helping me uninstall macOS apps (www.reddit.com) I started using macOS since I was a teenager 10+ years ago, and even til this day, I still don't understand how to properly uninstall a local application. That changed today.
OpenAIs Agentic Shift (www.reddit.com) OpenAI is rolling out agents capable of autonomous, multi-step workflows, with reports suggesting they are exploring an acquisition of agent orchestration company Windsurf. Google's $40B Anthropic Investment: Google is committing up to $40…
Whisper kept turning "Claude Code" into "cloud code" and "Hetzner" into "head sner". We finally shipped a free fix. (www.reddit.com) I work on SpeakUp (disclosure, on the team) — a Mac dictation app, €29 one-time, runs whisper.cpp locally on Metal GPU. The thing that's been driving us crazy: every Whisper-based dictation tool butchers technical names.
Heads up, Ox Security found MCP's STDIO transport can run arbitrary commands on your machine before validation (www.reddit.com) Why I'm running my AI coding agents locally (and you probably should too) (www.reddit.com) **Rate limits are brutal** — Cursor/Windsurf throttle you exactly when you need them most **Privacy matters** — Your code = your IP. Sending it to cloud APIs = trusting strangers **Quality control** — When the model runs locally, you can v…