Best new AI agent, design and free ebook resources: 2 October

2 October's additions cover three very different moods: AI agents and coding tools, a big batch of brand and interface design inspiration, and four free places to read books. Pick the group that fits what you're working on today. Features and pricing change, so check each tool's own page before you commit.

Building and running AI agents

Busabase is an open-source, local-first database and workspace for AI agents, with human review on the writes that matter. Tensorlake is a serverless runtime for sandboxes and background agentic applications. Coven is a local-first runtime for project-scoped coding-agent sessions, with durable state and authority boundaries.

Working in Claude Code? Oh My Claude Code adds teams-first multi-agent orchestration. Oh My Fable packages a Fable 5.1 prompting guide as Claude Code skills, and Superloopy is a lightweight loop harness with strict evidence gates. Docker Skills gives coding agents reusable workflows for building, testing and debugging containerised apps, and Jido AI brings LLM orchestration to Elixir agents.

Omniseek is a self-hosted MCP server that lets an agent transcribe speech, read pages behind logins and see images and video frames. Wazuh MCP Server connects AI assistants to Wazuh for security operations work, so it's only for teams that already run Wazuh. Merrymen runs autonomous trading agents within on-chain limits. Trading carries real financial risk, so treat it as something to study, not advice.

AI for your work, your career and your desktop

Everywhere is an open-source desktop assistant that understands what's on your screen and works with multiple models and MCP tools. AnythingLLM Mobile puts a local-first, privacy-focused AI agent on your phone.

Career Agents bundles 167 specialised agents for resumes, interviews and job search. Pinloop CLI lets a coding agent search millions of job postings right from the terminal. Awesome Code Docs is a free catalogue of 203 deep-dive tutorials on AI agents, LLM frameworks and MCP.

Inspiration for brands and design

Logopond and Rebrand Gallery are galleries for logo and rebrand ideas. Brand Guidelines collects real brand guidelines, so you can see how companies lay out logos, colour and type. Brand New, from UnderConsideration, offers critical commentary on identity redesigns, and Abduzeedo mixes design projects with tutorials.

Spotted in Prod is a library of real iOS app screens you can browse by style, gesture and flow. For interface code, beUI offers 149 free animated React components, Evil Charts provides animated chart components for shadcn/ui, and Reverse UI is a paid collection of animated components.

Free places to read

Project Gutenberg has more than 70,000 public-domain ebooks, and Standard Ebooks makes carefully formatted editions of the classics. Open Library lets you search millions of books and borrow lots of digitised titles for free with an account. ManyBooks is a free ebook library for e-readers, phones and tablets.

A couple of picks for specialists

Tiny Engineer is a small desktop robot that physically acts out what your AI coding assistant is doing. You'll need to build or source the hardware. Virtual Mac for iPad is an experimental project that runs macOS on specific iPads, and it only works on certain devices and older iPadOS versions.

Don't add everything at once. Start with one agent workflow, one design resource or one book. The rest of yesterday's additions are in the full directory.