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standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

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Don't Wake the Sloth

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Don't Wake the Sloth

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SlothCommit: a 1B Gemma on a plain CPU now writes my commit messages (after I caught it copying its homework)

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

SlothCommit: a 1B Gemma on a plain CPU now writes my commit messages (after I caught it copying its homework)

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I talk, it types: notes from a voice memo, on my own machine

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I talk, it types: notes from a voice memo, on my own machine

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Patchline 🦥 — AI-Powered GitHub Issue Triage with Local Gemma 3

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Patchline 🦥 — AI-Powered GitHub Issue Triage with Local Gemma 3

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The Forest Symphony: Turn a Bird's Song Into a Melody You Can Keep

The Forest Symphony: Turn a Bird's Song Into a Melody You Can Keep

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Yaadi (यादी): Speak a Task, Get a Calendar Event. No Cloud, Just Gemma 4

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Yaadi (यादी): Speak a Task, Get a Calendar Event. No Cloud, Just Gemma 4

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Snooze Agent🦥 — The Autonomous GitHub Issue Triage Bot for Lazy Maintainers

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Snooze Agent🦥 — The Autonomous GitHub Issue Triage Bot for Lazy Maintainers

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SlothSort AI

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

SlothSort AI

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SlothClaw - an open-weight autonomous AI agent harness engineered for radical laziness.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

SlothClaw - an open-weight autonomous AI agent harness engineered for radical laziness.

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I Built a Local Agent That Reads My Chats Overnight and Writes My Morning Digest (Gemma 3 + Ollama)

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I Built a Local Agent That Reads My Chats Overnight and Writes My Morning Digest (Gemma 3 + Ollama)

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Sloth Sort: I let a local AI clean my Downloads folder so I never have to

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Sloth Sort: I let a local AI clean my Downloads folder so I never have to

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Slow and Steady: Meet SlothTidier, the Offline Open-Weight AI Agent That Cleans Your Clutter While You Nap

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Slow and Steady: Meet SlothTidier, the Offline Open-Weight AI Agent That Cleans Your Clutter While You Nap

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Slow once, instant after: Gemma 4 names each bank descriptor one time on your laptop, and code checks every name

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady 🦥

Slow once, instant after: Gemma 4 names each bank descriptor one time on your laptop, and code checks every name

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Slow and Steady with CommitSloth: Automating Developer Paperwork with Local Google Gemma

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Slow and Steady with CommitSloth: Automating Developer Paperwork with Local Google Gemma

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