Starlette 1.0 has been released, and Simon Willison explores its new features by leveraging Claude’s skill‑building capabilities. He demonstrates how Claude can clone the Starlette repository, generate a comprehensive skill document with code examples, and even create a fully functional task‑management app complete with database, API endpoints, and Jinja2 templates—all generated and tested by Claude itself. The article highlights the practical benefits of integrating an LLM as a coding agent, showcases the new lifespan mechanism, and reflects on the growing popularity of Starlette as the foundation of FastAPI.
This article details how to use OpenClaw, an open-source framework, to build a personal assistant. It covers the setup, configuration, and basic usage of OpenClaw, focusing on its ability to connect to various tools and services to perform tasks like sending emails, browsing the web, and executing commands. The guide provides a practical walkthrough for creating a customized AI assistant tailored to individual needs.
A popular and actively maintained open-source web crawling library for LLMs and data extraction, offering advanced features like structured data extraction, browser control, and markdown generation.
Docling is a powerful open-source library for document processing, supporting diverse formats and advanced PDF understanding, with seamless integrations with the gen AI ecosystem.
Powering the future of open-source AI agent development. Discover, run, and compose AI agents from any framework. Build production-grade AI agents in both Python and Typescript. Join our community on Discord, BlueSky, and YouTube.
Verba is an open-source application designed to offer an end-to-end, streamlined, and user-friendly interface for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) out of the box. It supports various RAG techniques, data types, LLM providers, and offers Docker support and a fully-customizable frontend.
