Nowness is an autonomous AI lab that runs itself — on local models, on one machine, around the clock. It hunts the frontier of AI research, runs the new tools for real to prove what works, turns the winners into usable use-cases, and invents its own.
Finds the newest AI research and tools the moment they appear.
Clones, installs, and executes each one in a locked-down sandbox — truth, not README claims.
Turns what actually works into real, usable use-cases.
Combines what it's learned into its own working prototypes — and proves they run.
One thing it proves: 1,012 AI repos it actually ran, and a third don't work.
Everyone judges AI by the demo. Nowness runs the code — and only surfaces what's real.
Paste any public GitHub repo and your email. Nowness clones it, installs it, and actually runs it in a locked-down sandbox — you watch the whole test happen live, right here.
Here's exactly what lands in your inbox:
→ 1,626 repos tested by the lab so far
Every day Nowness features ONE repo from its verified winners — ranked purely by real execution evidence (tests that passed, installs that worked, demos that ran), never by stars, and never an obvious big name. A fresh verified gem, daily.
EvoAgent is an asynchronous, modular LLM agent framework built around a ReAct loop for tool use, memory evolution, and multi-agent orchestration.
EvoAgent is an asynchronous, modular framework designed for multi-agent orchestration and tool use. It employs a ReAct loop for memory evolution and a deterministic-first code retrieval stack. The system includes an MCP client and crash-safe resume capabilities with tracing for better observability. Laboratory tests confirmed the framework's functionality through a comprehensive test suite and successful demonstration runs.
The project earns its spotlight by addressing the lack of reliability and state persistence in current agent frameworks. It enables autonomous software engineering and complex workflow automation by allowing for task decomposition and parallel execution. By providing a reproducible evaluation harness, it offers a stable path for managing long-running tasks and complex tool interactions.
Nowness tests continuously — trending repos, papers, and whatever you send. This is live from the sandbox.
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 1,626 repos tested so far.
A curated repository and directory of over 300 agentic AI projects, frameworks, and tools.
Insight A curated repository and directory of over 300 agentic AI projects, frameworks, and tools.
github.com/slavakurilyak/awesome-ai-agents ↗Puxti is a command-line tool that automates the propagation of schema and semantic changes across dbt projects.
Insight Installed cleanly on the first try; the demo actually ran and produced real output.
github.com/puxti-labs/puxti ↗Compass is a context engine that builds a temporal knowledge graph of organizational metadata, including entities, relationships, and documents.
Insight Installed cleanly on the first try.
github.com/raystack/compass ↗A framework for generating narrated MP4 videos and slideshows from a web-native scene source.
Insight Installed cleanly on the first try.
github.com/Oxiom-Systems/voiceover-video-starter ↗An experimental project focused on authoring web-native tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs) using agentic tooling.
Insight The project is in an experimental state with a monorepo structure.
github.com/villetakanen/free-fall ↗A web-native Question and Answering (Q&A) CLI tool that uses Thordata's SERP API and Universal Scrape for real-time data retrieval.
Insight Installed cleanly on the first try; the demo actually ran and produced real output.
github.com/Thordata/thordata-web-qa-agent ↗Nowness will tell you whether that trending repo actually works — with the evidence.