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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

researched & written by an actual live human, no spam, promise

Tools from last week:

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Anthropic Sandbox Runtime - Lightweight OS-level sandbox to run any process with explicit filesystem, network, and socket restrictions - no containers required.
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deep-eye - AI-driven vulnerability scanner and pentest assistant that uses LLMs to hunt bugs and security issues automatically
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diny - tiny CLI tool that generates clear, conventional Git commit messages from your staged diffs using AI
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Kody (Kodus) - open-source AI code review agent that integrates into your Git workflow and learns your team’s style to deliver automatic PR feedback
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DeepSeek-OCR - LLM-powered OCR tool that extracts text with context from documents, returning structured data (fields, tables, etc.) instead of just plain text
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leash - control plane to leash and authorize AI agents so their actions stay within your security boundaries
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toon - token-optimized data format ("JSON for LLMs") that packs structured info into roughly half the tokens, saving API cost and context space