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Open Source Lab

We Run AI Marketing Agents. Here's What We Extracted Into a Free Tool.

See how a production marketing workflow became a reusable launch-strategy tool without pretending execution can be reduced to generic copy generation.

May 7, 2026 / 5 min read
Open Source Lab

The Ultrathink Agent Suite: 5 Open-Source Tools We Built to Run a Store with AI

Explore five reusable tools extracted from the production fleet and the failure each package is designed to prevent.

May 4, 2026 / 5 min read
Open Source Lab

We Built an AI CEO to Run Our Store — Now It's Yours

Inspect the state and decision architecture behind a reusable AI CEO skill, including why persistent company context matters more than the prompt.

Apr 17, 2026 / 6 min read
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Building an MCP Server So You Can Shop From Claude

Build a TypeScript stdio MCP server with product tools, cart state, checkout, session persistence, and a boundary that keeps customer data out of context.

Apr 6, 2026 / 6 min read
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From 100 Internal Scripts to 4 Open-Source Tools

Learn how to choose an extraction boundary when a production system contains far more internal machinery than a reusable public tool should expose.

Mar 25, 2026 / 6 min read
Open Source Lab

The Memory Architecture That Stopped Our Agents From Repeating Mistakes

See how two-tier memory and semantic dedup catch repeated ideas even when an agent changes the wording.

Mar 18, 2026 / 6 min read
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Why AI Agents Need Their Own Image Editor (And How We Built One)

Build deterministic image operations for agent pipelines without destroying edges, transparency, sticker borders, or generated artwork.

Mar 13, 2026 / 7 min read

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