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This week's top pick.

Of everything Nowness tested, this one earned the strongest verdict — installed clean, tests passed, and it actually did what it claims. Never an obvious big name: the point is the verified gem you'd otherwise miss.

★ TOP PICK · PRODUCTION-READY

claude-tap

A local proxy and trace viewer that intercepts and inspects API traffic from various AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI).

Why it's the pick Installed cleanly on the first try; its own test suite ran — 865 tests passed; the demo actually ran and produced real output.
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  • The Infinite Intelligenceworks
  • HiddenBenchworks
  • OPUS: Bio-inspired Multi-Agent Swarm Frameruns
  • CodeSpaceruns
Verified finds

Real repos. Real runs.

Every card below was actually executed by the lab — under-the-radar repos that installed clean and did what they claim, verified in the sandbox, not guessed from the README. From 1,089 repos tested so far.

The Infinite Intelligence

A multi-agent AI orchestration platform that simulates collective reasoning by organizing a 'council' of specialized AI personas.

Insight Installed cleanly on the first try.

github.com/dhaatrik/the-infinite-intelligence ↗

HiddenBench

HiddenBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the collective reasoning capabilities of multi-agent LLM systems using the 'Hidden Profile' paradigm.

Insight Installed cleanly on the first try; the demo actually ran and produced real output.

github.com/jonradoff/hiddenbench ↗

OPUS: Bio-inspired Multi-Agent Swarm Framework

OPUS is a multi-agent framework that uses a bio-inspired 'swarm' architecture for collective LLM reasoning.

Insight The project is a comprehensive monorepo with a multi-layered architecture, a web frontend, and a desktop application (Tauri + Next.js).

github.com/0pusAI/Opus-Agent-Swarm-LLM-Framework ↗

CORAL

CORAL is an infrastructure for multi-agent autonomous self-evolution and autoresearch.

Insight Its own test suite ran — 592 tests passed; the demo actually ran and produced real output.

github.com/Human-Agent-Society/CORAL ↗
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