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A Weekly Map of

AI Dev Tools

7 fresh AI dev tools in your inbox every Thursday to boost your workflow or help you ship AI-enabled apps

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Tools from last week:

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JSON Toolkit - CLI suite for querying, transforming, and validating JSON/NDJSON to prep data for evals and retrieval.
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sqlite-ai - Run on-device inference and embedding generation directly inside SQLite via a loadable extension.
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PageIndex - Vectorless, reasoning based RAG to improve performance with professional documents. Prioritises relevance over similarity.
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Katakate K7 - Spin up dozens of Firecracker micro-VM sandboxes per node (CLI/API/Python SDK) to safely execute untrusted/AI-generated code.
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Playwright Agents (v1.56) - LLM-powered agents that generate, self-heal, and maintain your Playwright end-to-end tests with minimal prompts.
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OpenAI AgentKit - Toolkit to visually design, evaluate, and deploy production agents with built-in SDKs and embeddable UIs.
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Open Standard for Agentic Commerce (Stripe) - Proposed protocol and schema that let agents query inventory, build carts, and complete payments safely with merchant consent and auditable flows.