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CloakBrowser Review: Stealth Chromium for AI Agents (2026)

May 17, 2026

CloakBrowser is a drop-in Playwright replacement with 49 source-level patches. Passes Cloudflare Turnstile, hits 0.9 reCAPTCHA v3. Install + honest review.

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Needle Review: 26M Function-Calling Model for Edge Devices

May 16, 2026

Cactus open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter function-calling model distilled from Gemini 3.1. Runs 6000 tok/s on phones. Honest review with code and limits.

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agentmemory Review: Persistent Memory for AI Coding Agents

May 15, 2026

agentmemory gives Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex persistent memory via 12 hooks + MCP. 95.2% recall on LongMemEval. Honest review with benchmarks and limits.

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Statewright Review: State Machine Guardrails for AI Agents

May 14, 2026

Statewright uses visual state machines to gate which tools AI coding agents can call per phase. Open-source Rust engine, MCP plugins, real benchmarks.

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Rapid-MLX Review: 4x Faster Local LLM Server for Mac

May 13, 2026

Rapid-MLX is a drop-in OpenAI server that's 2-4x faster than Ollama on Apple Silicon. Setup, benchmarks, Claude Code integration, and honest limits.

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