Date: August 19th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: Natalie Harp's husband
1. fuck captchas and bot detectors, this one can defeat them all: https://github.com/CloakHQ/cloakbrowser
2. This is a good alternative to #1 but Cloak is better: https://github.com/daijro/camoufox
3. this one is yuge. It saves you from having to use a service like Firecrawl or Brave to do internet searches. It also has more functionality than those services. You're a fucking idiot if you can't get this to work: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
3.5. if you understand what the fuck this is, install it: https://github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng
4. if you envision needing to read/manipulate/OCR PDFs, install this and tell your AI to use it: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/stirling-pdf
5. a lot of shit on the internet gets memoryholed or "updated" with "new information" after it's first published. Give your AI a way to cope with that shit: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
6. this one is lit but you need to know what the fuck you're doing: https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895003&forum_id=2...id.#50078817)