Dependency Reviews

Working notes on every tool and library in use across the workspace. Updated whenever a dependency is discussed or used in a novel way.

Job applications

job-ops — in progress — self-hosted job tracker with LLM scoring and resume tailoring; import pipeline works, RxResume integration incomplete (v4/v5 mode mismatch)

Hatchet — not adopted — correct durability model, wrong shape for single-machine workloads (needs Postgres + server)
Icepick — not adopted — elegant agent/tool API on top of Hatchet, but 9 months stale and inherits full Hatchet infrastructure requirement
AMD GAIA — not adopted — desktop app platform (GUI, voice, RAG, NPU); no spawnSync() primitive, Python-only, wrong shape for headless batch pipelines

axe — recommended — local LLM agent runner; TOML agents, Ollama backend, sub-agent composition
Ollama — recommended — local inference server; qwen3.5:27b for all agents; sequential-only on single GPU
Claude — recommended — cloud LLM for agent work; strong at code; weak at fixing the class not the instance
Agents — patterns for multi-agent orchestration

LangAlpha — not adopted (Ollama) — PTC financial research agent; market data layer is excellent, agent layer requires frontier LLM + Daytona sandbox

Docker — recommended — bespoke container per project; multi-stage build
KittenTTS + espeak-ng + phonemizer — adequate — local TTS; functional but fragile path plumbing
Cloudflare Pages, R2, D1, Workers — recommended — static hosting, object storage, edge DB, Workers; zero-ops once configured; many wrangler footguns
Raindrop.io — recommended — bookmarking as podcast source queue; tag-before-publish is a bug waiting to happen

Bun — recommended — TypeScript runtime + package manager; replaces Node/npm/tsc/jest
Zod — recommended — LLM output validation; schema must be kept in sync with agent TOML constraints manually
OpenTelemetry — recommended — tracing; only reliable record of what happened in pipeline failures
NanoClaw — agent platform running this workspace
Claw Platforms — comparative review of NanoClaw alternatives (SwarmClaw, Moltis, nanobot, AlexClaw, PicoClaw)

Defuddle — recommended — article extractor + Markdown output, Node/Bun compatible
html-to-markdown — HTML→Markdown converter (Go); needs a separate extractor upstream
Pydoll — headless Chromium automation (Python); for JS-gated paywalls only