New AI tools launch every single week — and most of them are noise. The MTD AI Tools Directory is our curated, regularly updated collection of the AI tools actually worth your attention: trending launches from Product Hunt and the open-source projects developers are building with on GitHub. Every roundup below is hand-reviewed by our team, with honest notes on pricing, strengths, and caveats.
Latest tool roundups
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Open SEO MCP Skills: The Free SEO MCP Server for Claude With 6,000+ Stars
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Farol Review: The Coding Agent Attention Monitor for Mac Developers in 2026
If you run more than one coding agent at a time, you already know the tax. The tab-cycling. The “which one is stuck?” shuffle. The permission prompt that has been sitting there for ten minutes while you made coffee, and the agent that has been burning your rate limit doing nothing. Farol is a coding…
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ZCode: The Open Source AI Coding Agent Harness from Z.ai — Inside the 7,900-Star Launch
The most interesting thing about the open source AI coding agent harness that Z.ai released last month is not that it’s open source. It’s that a model lab finally admitted what every serious agent team already knew: the model is only half the product. ZCode, described in its GitHub repo as “Z.ai’s coding agent harness.…
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Ghost Core Review: A $3,499 On-Device Personal AI Assistant That Promises to Never Phone Home
Ghost has built the most interesting AI hardware product of 2026: Core, a $3,499 screenless computer whose entire job is to be your on-device personal AI assistant — running AI agents on your files, your apps and your smart home without sending your life to someone else’s cloud. The verdict up front: the engineering ambition…
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How to Run Coding Agents on Cheaper Models: Inside Magpie, the 15,000-Star GitHub Repo
If you are trying to figure out how to run coding agents on cheaper models, the answer used to be tedious: hand-edit five different config files, juggle API keys across Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, and watch the API bill climb anyway. Magpie — the open-source project at github.com/yetone/magpie, already past 15,900 stars less…
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PdfWord Review: 47 Free AI PDF Tools Online That Never Upload Your Files (2026)
Most free AI PDF tools online come with a hidden price: your files get uploaded to somebody else’s server, and you get a watermark or a daily limit in return. PdfWord flips that deal. Launched on Product Hunt in October 2026, it is a suite of 47 free PDF tools — 36 core utilities plus…
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The Cheapest AI Web Agent: Inside Jev Ultrafast’s 7-Second Browser Automation
Browser automation has always been expensive in two currencies: engineering time and model tokens. The cheapest AI web agent we have seen so far, Jev Ultrafast (browser-use/jev-ultrafast on GitHub, with more than 23,000 stars and an MIT licence), tries to collapse both. Give it one natural-language goal — “find one-way flights from Zürich to London”…
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AnySearch Review: The AI Search API for Agents That Cuts Token Waste
If your AI agents spend half their context window wading through search results, you’re not alone — and AnySearch, an AI search API for agents, is the latest tool promising to fix it. The verdict up front: it’s a well-designed, genuinely developer-friendly search layer that returns structured, citation-backed Markdown instead of link lists, with a…
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Ghidra: Inside the NSA’s Open Source Reverse Engineering Tool (90,000+ Stars)
If someone hands you a compiled binary with no source code and asks what it actually does, you have two options: run it and watch what happens, or read it. An open source reverse engineering tool called Ghidra exists for the second option — and it was built by the National Security Agency. With more…
How we choose tools for this directory
- Verifiable traction — Product Hunt votes and badges, GitHub stars and commit activity, real user discussion. Hype alone does not qualify.
- Business relevance — every tool must solve a real problem for a real team, not just demo well.
- Honest economics — we note pricing, credit burn, and the hidden costs (setup time, infrastructure) that marketing pages skip.
- No paid placements — tools earn their spot here. If that ever changes, we will label it clearly.
We update this directory as new tools trend — bookmark it and check back. Want help evaluating which of these tools fit your business, or integrating AI into your existing systems? Talk to our team — 9+ years, 300+ projects, and a healthy skepticism toward launch-day hype.