Botmonster Tech Weekly - September 4, 2026
AI
book-to-skill feeds your agent one chapter, not the book

Turn a book into an agent skill with book-to-skill: it compiles a PDF into chapter files your agent loads on demand, using a fraction of the tokens.
Best AI image tools 2026

Best AI image tools 2026 ranked on text rendering, vector output, and commercial rights. Which free tiers export a clean file, and which watermark it.
Palmier Pro lets your AI agent cut video on your Mac

Palmier Pro is an open source video editor for Mac that opens an MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can cut and arrange your timeline for you.
DeepTutor is the AI tutor that remembers every lesson

DeepTutor is an open source AI tutor with inspectable memory, versioned knowledge bases, and a command line another agent can drive with JSON output.
Voicebox clones your voice and gives it to Claude Code

Voicebox is an open source voice cloning app that runs on your own machine, adds system-wide dictation, and gives coding agents a voice over MCP.
Coding
Chat2DB stopped being open source at version 5.3.0

The Chat2DB license change makes version 5.3.0 source-available. Personal and company use stay free, but hosting it for other people is now barred.
Android SSH clients compared, Termius beats the rest

Android SSH client picks for 2026: Termius, ConnectBot, and Termux compared on price, Mosh, SFTP, and keys, after Google Play dropped JuiceSSH.
Self-hosting
Does the AIRI anime companion really play Minecraft?

AIRI is a self hosted AI companion with a 3D anime body that talks, listens, and even plays Minecraft, running in a browser or as a desktop app.
Pumpkin runs Minecraft on 100MB but pistons don't work

Pumpkin is a Minecraft server in Rust that starts in milliseconds on roughly 100MB of RAM, but pistons are broken and version 1.0 has no release date.