Teaching your coding agent to design: two new skills, plus a self-hosted Intercom
Two of this week's tools install with a single npx command and then live inside Claude Code. One turns a text prompt into a Lottie animation. The other lays out a resume or a slide deck that doesn't look like a Canva template. You're not running an app, you're handing your coding agent a new trick and letting it do design work it had no business doing a year ago. That document designer is named Kami, which also happens to be my three-year-old daughter's name, so I'll be straight with you: it was making this list either way. It earned the spot on its own, but I wasn't going to pretend to be neutral about it. Chatwoot is the featured pick and the most production-ready of the bunch: a self-hosted support inbox that covers the core of what Intercom and Zendesk bill you per agent for. The honest catch is operational. You're standing up Rails, Postgres, Redis, and Sidekiq, so it fits if you've got the ops muscle and want off the per-seat treadmill, not if you want something running by lunch. openhuman is the long shot. A local-first personal assistant that keeps your data as plain markdown on your own machine and connects to a hundred-plus services. It's early beta and says so plainly. Worth a look if you like poking at ambitious privacy-first software, worth skipping if you need it to just work.
Open source live-chat and support desk
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Chatwoot is an open source customer support and live-chat platform, a self-hosted alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. Customer messages come in from any channel, your team responds from one dashboard. Self-hostable with Rails and PostgreSQL. Used by startups and mid-size companies that want multi-channel support without Intercom's pricing. Self-hosted is free with no feature restrictions. Their cloud plan starts at $19/agent/mo and includes the same features plus managed hosting and support. The catch: Chatwoot is a support tool, not a product analytics or engagement platform. Intercom bundles marketing automation, product tours, and user tracking; Chatwoot doesn't. The self-hosted setup requires Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq. That's a meaningful ops commitment. And the UI, while functional, lacks the polish of Intercom's refined experience. If you just need a chat widget and basic ticketing, it's great. If you need a full customer engagement platform, you'll outgrow it.
Open-source skill and harness for generating production ready Lottie animations with codex/claude code
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This turns "make me a loading spinner animation" into actual Lottie code through your AI coding agent. Lottie is the format apps use for lightweight vector animations, and creating them normally means After Effects and a plugin. diffusionstudio/lottie installs as a skill for agents like Claude Code, then converts an SVG or a plain-text description into working animation code you can drop into web, React Native, iOS, Android, or Flutter. Setup is one command, npx skills add diffusionstudio/lottie, and you're generating animations by prompting. There's nothing to host and no account. Because it produces standard Lottie JSON, the output plugs into the same players and tooling you'd already use. The whole thing is MIT-licensed and free. Developers who need simple animations but don't have a motion designer, or don't want to learn After Effects, are the target. It won't replace a real animator for complex, hand-crafted motion work. For spinners, icon transitions, and straightforward UI animation, it's a fast path from idea to code without leaving your editor. The catch: it leans on your AI agent, so the quality of what you get tracks the quality of your prompt and your model. Intricate animation is still beyond what a text prompt produces cleanly, this shines on the simple-to-moderate stuff. Think of it as a head start, not a finished motion-design studio.
👩🚒 Good content deserves good paper.
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Kami is a design system for professional documents. You feed it content through Claude Code or another AI agent, and it outputs HTML in a warm-parchment, ink-blue style across six template types: one-pagers, long documents, formal letters, portfolios, resumes, and slides. MIT-licensed. Installation is loading one skill into your agent of choice. No app to run, no separate install. The system enforces typography and spacing rules so your output looks consistent whether you are writing a one-page memo or a 40-page portfolio. HTML output means you can print directly or export to PDF. Writers and analysts who need polished docs without opening InDesign get a sensible default. Job seekers get resume templates that do not look like every other Canva output. Solo creators get a style system they can extend. No paid tier. The catch: the Chinese serif font (TsangerJinKai02) is free for personal use only. Commercial use of that font requires licensing from tsanger.cn. English-only documents are fully unrestricted.
Your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful.
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openhuman wants to be your personal AI assistant, the kind that actually knows your life. It is a local-first desktop app that connects to over a hundred services, pulls in your data every few minutes, and organizes it into a memory tree stored as plain markdown on your own machine. Web search, voice, code execution, even a desktop mascot are built in. GPL-3.0 and free, with your data staying local instead of living on someone else's server. This is early beta, and it shows. The project is honest about rough edges, there is a real stack of open issues, and it is under heavy active development. Running it means Docker and some setup, and you supply your own model API keys for the actual intelligence. The local-first design is the selling point: your memory vault and connected-service data sit on your disk, not in a vendor's cloud. This is for tinkerers right now, not for teams betting workflows on it. Solo users who care about privacy and want to experiment with a personal AI that remembers things will find it fascinating. Anyone needing reliability today should wait. There is no paid tier to weigh; the cost is your own API usage and your patience with beta software. The catch is maturity. The ambition is huge and the privacy story is good, but super intelligence is marketing, not what is shipping today. Treat it as a promising experiment, not a finished product.
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