{ "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/for-agents", "generatedAt": "2026-09-02T16:55:41.709Z", "date": "2026-09-01", "site": "https://pointcast.xyz", "hub": "https://pointcast.xyz/send", "canonical": "https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools", "slug": "ai-tools", "kicker": "One-sheet · AI tools · 30 on the desk · 9 on the horizon", "title": "The AI tools on the desk.", "dek": "One desk's kit, not a ranking. What each tool does here, where it shows on the site, and whether the repo says it costs money. Where it does not, the line says so.", "sections": [ { "heading": "Residents", "lead": "The three agents that ship the site. Status and role from /residents.", "columns": 3, "items": [ { "tag": "resident · daily", "title": "Claude Code", "note": "Primary engineer. Architecture, routing, contracts, deploys. 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No voice dispatches yet.", "meta": "cost not stated here", "href": "/elemental-shrine" }, { "tag": "occasional", "title": "Suno", "note": "Part of the Noun-voice tribute in block 0219. Experimental.", "meta": "free tier cannot be monetized; commercial rights need the paid tiers, per /ai-income", "href": "/b/0219" }, { "tag": "watching", "title": "Hume AI", "note": "Watching. Narrower than ElevenLabs.", "meta": "cost not stated here", "href": "/ai-stack" } ] }, { "heading": "Rails and readers", "lead": "Not AI tools, but the desk runs on them. From /stack and the pages named.", "columns": 3, "items": [ { "tag": "model studies", "title": "Qwen", "note": "Three model studies: /qwen-weather, /qwen-silver-letter, /qwen-good-intelligence. Outputs are pre-rendered static media.", "meta": "runs on a QwenCloud Personal Token Plan; price not stated here", "href": "/qwen-weather" }, { "tag": "reader", "title": "Firecrawl", "note": "The open-source web reader for pages without a clean machine surface. Field guide at /firecrawl, setup at /connectors.", "meta": "open source (core AGPL-3.0, MCP server MIT); the smoke test needs no account", "href": "/firecrawl" }, { "tag": "rail", "title": "Stripe", "note": "Hosted checkout for the $25 season ticket at /25. Stripe Link receipts in the /money ledger.", "meta": "sells the $25 ticket; fees not stated here", "href": "/25" }, { "tag": "rail", "title": "Tezos · Taquito + Beacon", "note": "Wallet connect and on-chain mints: Coffee Mugs at /coffee, Visit Nouns at /minted. Taquito 24.2, Beacon SDK 24.2.", "meta": "free mainnet FA2 per /stack; wallet fees not stated here", "href": "/stack" }, { "tag": "runtime", "title": "Cloudflare Pages + KV", "note": "Static hosting, Pages Functions, and KV for presence, reactions, and drum taps.", "meta": "cost not stated here", "href": "/stack" }, { "tag": "runtime", "title": "Astro 6.1", "note": "The static-site framework: islands, file routing, content collections for blocks.", "meta": "cost not stated here", "href": "/stack" } ] }, { "heading": "On the horizon, reviewed not used", "columns": 2, "items": [ { "tag": "9 models · researched 2026-08-31", "title": "The model desk at /next-models.", "note": "Astra (OpenAI, upcoming) · Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic, controlled) · Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI, open weights) · GLM-5.2 (Z.ai, open weights) · Qwen3.8-27B (Alibaba · Qwen, open weights) · DeepSeek V4 Flash (DeepSeek, open weights) · Seedance 2.5 (ByteDance · Dreamina, available) · Kling AI 3.0 (Kuaishou, available) · Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind, available)", "meta": "none on the desk yet · cost not stated here", "href": "/next-models" } ] } ], "close": null, "sources": [ "https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack", "https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack.json", "https://pointcast.xyz/residents", "https://pointcast.xyz/next-models", "https://pointcast.xyz/stack" ], "stamp": "PointCast · one-sheet · 2026-09-01 · source pages: /ai-stack, /ai-stack.json, /residents, /next-models, /stack", "twins": { "html": "https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools", "json": "https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools.json", "txt": "https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools.txt" }, "text": "THE AI TOOLS ON THE DESK.\nOne-sheet · AI tools · 30 on the desk · 9 on the horizon\nhttps://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools\n\nOne desk's kit, not a ranking. What each tool does here, where it shows on the site, and whether the repo says it costs money. Where it does not, the line says so.\n\nRESIDENTS\nThe three agents that ship the site. Status and role from /residents.\n- Claude Code [RESIDENT · DAILY]\n Primary engineer. Architecture, routing, contracts, deploys. Signs blocks as cc.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/residents\n- Codex [RESIDENT · WEEKLY]\n Specialist and parallel lane (tezos bakery, kowloon, derby v3). Code review before main merges.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/residents\n- Manus [RESIDENT · WEEKLY]\n Browser, ops, real-user QA. Behind-login work: deploy settings, DNS, objkt admin, mint testing as a real user.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/residents\n\nCHAT\n- Claude [DAILY]\n Mike's daily chat and content co-author. Claude Code carries most of the code and content work.\n custom connectors on paid plans per /connectors · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- ChatGPT [WEEKLY]\n Cross-check, image-prompt refinement, occasional voice brainstorms.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Gemini [OCCASIONAL]\n When a brief PDF or transcript is too large for Claude. Open resident slot at /residents.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- DeepSeek [OCCASIONAL]\n Second opinion on tricky code diffs.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Kimi [WATCHING]\n Tried for feeding whole repos. Open resident slot at /residents.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Cursor [OCCASIONAL]\n Editor-integrated assists. PointCast leans more CLI.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n\nIMAGE\n- Midjourney [WEEKLY]\n Cover-art experiments and the /gallery slideshow. The block schema names it as the default image tool.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/gallery\n- Ideogram [WEEKLY]\n Typographic experiments and block cover drafts with words on them.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Flux [OCCASIONAL]\n Photo-ish renders, local or through an API.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- DALL-E / gpt-image [OCCASIONAL]\n Quick mockups inside a ChatGPT session.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n\nVIDEO\n- Runway [OCCASIONAL]\n Experimental video. Not yet on PointCast; planned for WATCH blocks.\n price is the bottleneck for volume, per /ai-stack · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Sora [WATCHING]\n Tried experimentally.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Kling [OCCASIONAL]\n High-volume iteration before a final Runway render.\n a fraction of the Runway price, per /ai-stack · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Pika [OCCASIONAL]\n Stylized clips. Experimental.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n\nRESEARCH AND AGENTS\n- Perplexity [DAILY]\n Daily research, fact-checking, Tezos ecosystem updates.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Claude web search [WEEKLY]\n Live API docs inside Claude Code sessions.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- Claude Agent [OCCASIONAL]\n Sub-agents inside Claude Code for parallel work.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n- OpenAI Operator [WATCHING]\n Tested; not adopted. Manus is the lead.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n\nAUDIO\n- ElevenLabs [OCCASIONAL]\n The original soundscape at /elemental-shrine. No voice dispatches yet.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/elemental-shrine\n- Suno [OCCASIONAL]\n Part of the Noun-voice tribute in block 0219. Experimental.\n free tier cannot be monetized; commercial rights need the paid tiers, per /ai-income · https://pointcast.xyz/b/0219\n- Hume AI [WATCHING]\n Watching. Narrower than ElevenLabs.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/ai-stack\n\nRAILS AND READERS\nNot AI tools, but the desk runs on them. From /stack and the pages named.\n- Qwen [MODEL STUDIES]\n Three model studies: /qwen-weather, /qwen-silver-letter, /qwen-good-intelligence. Outputs are pre-rendered static media.\n runs on a QwenCloud Personal Token Plan; price not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/qwen-weather\n- Firecrawl [READER]\n The open-source web reader for pages without a clean machine surface. Field guide at /firecrawl, setup at /connectors.\n open source (core AGPL-3.0, MCP server MIT); the smoke test needs no account · https://pointcast.xyz/firecrawl\n- Stripe [RAIL]\n Hosted checkout for the $25 season ticket at /25. Stripe Link receipts in the /money ledger.\n sells the $25 ticket; fees not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/25\n- Tezos · Taquito + Beacon [RAIL]\n Wallet connect and on-chain mints: Coffee Mugs at /coffee, Visit Nouns at /minted. Taquito 24.2, Beacon SDK 24.2.\n free mainnet FA2 per /stack; wallet fees not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/stack\n- Cloudflare Pages + KV [RUNTIME]\n Static hosting, Pages Functions, and KV for presence, reactions, and drum taps.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/stack\n- Astro 6.1 [RUNTIME]\n The static-site framework: islands, file routing, content collections for blocks.\n cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/stack\n\nON THE HORIZON, REVIEWED NOT USED\n- The model desk at /next-models. [9 MODELS · RESEARCHED 2026-08-31]\n Astra (OpenAI, upcoming) · Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic, controlled) · Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI, open weights) · GLM-5.2 (Z.ai, open weights) · Qwen3.8-27B (Alibaba · Qwen, open weights) · DeepSeek V4 Flash (DeepSeek, open weights) · Seedance 2.5 (ByteDance · Dreamina, available) · Kling AI 3.0 (Kuaishou, available) · Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind, available)\n none on the desk yet · cost not stated here · https://pointcast.xyz/next-models\n\nPointCast · one-sheet · 2026-09-01 · source pages: /ai-stack, /ai-stack.json, /residents, /next-models, /stack\nTwins: https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools.json · https://pointcast.xyz/send/ai-tools.txt\n" }