# Sink Your Claws In

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/661/
> The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 661
- Date: 2026-04-05
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 01:04:18
- Audio: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b10e1249-62c6-4a45-ae1f-53444e04b76e.mp3


Transcripts: [text/vtt](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/7d907b17-2f8e-4e4c-82ec-08d4869cd569.vtt) [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/7d907b17-2f8e-4e4c-82ec-08d4869cd569.srt)


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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM")
* [LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root](https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ "LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root") — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
* [Preferring Local OSS LLMs](https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2026/titit-local-ai.html "Preferring Local OSS LLMs")
* [Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B](https://x.com/stevibe/status/2040472614892974277 "Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B")
* [Open Models have crossed a threshold](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-models-have-crossed-threshold-mason-daugherty-jsjme "Open Models have crossed a threshold")
* [Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/ "Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind")
* [Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device](https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma4 "Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device")
* [Gemma-4-31B-JANG\\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/dealignai/Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK "Gemma-4-31B-JANG\\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face")
* [mesh-llm](https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm "mesh-llm") — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
* [hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent "hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you") — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
* [goose](https://github.com/block/goose "goose") — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
* [Lobehub](https://github.com/lobehub/lobehub "Lobehub") — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
* [LibreFang](https://github.com/librefang/librefang "LibreFang") — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
* [OpenHarness](https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenHarness "OpenHarness") — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
* [Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-AI-Agent-Governance "Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents") — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
* [Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project](https://genai.owasp.org/2025/12/09/owasp-genai-security-project-releases-top-10-risks-and-mitigations-for-agentic-ai-security/ "Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project")
* [googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI](https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli "googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI") — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
* [Tunarr API Reference](https://tunarr.com/api-docs.html#latest/tag/channels "Tunarr API Reference")
* [Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival](https://itbrief.co.uk/story/euro-office-launches-as-europe-s-open-source-office-rival "Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival")
* [Pick: single-file-cli](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli "Pick: single-file-cli") — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
* [Pick: html-to-markdown](https://github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown "Pick: html-to-markdown") — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
* [Pick: skim](https://github.com/noblepayne/skim "Pick: skim") — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.