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steipete/README.md

Hi, I'm Peter ๐Ÿ‘‹

๐Ÿ“ Vienna โ†” London | ๐Ÿค– Polyagentmorous builder | ๐Ÿš€ Ex-PSPDFKit Founder

Now at OpenAI, working on agents; stewarding OpenClaw as open and independent.

Swift TypeScript JavaScript Node.js Codex CLI macOS SwiftUI Web

Deep in vibe-coding mode โ€“ building AI-powered developer tools at ludicrous speed. After 13+ years shipping native iOS, modern web feels like a breath of fresh air.

๐Ÿญ sweetistics.com (closed source) โ€“ AI-powered Twitter platform with analytics/ops stack.

Start Here

  • ๐Ÿฆž OpenClaw (370k+ stars) - the AI that actually does things
  • ๐ŸŽš๏ธ CodexBar (11.9k+ stars) - keep agent limits in view
  • ๐Ÿพ ClawHub (8.5k+ stars) - OpenClaw skill directory
  • ๐Ÿงญ gogcli (7.2k+ stars) - Google in your terminal
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰ summarize (5.8k+ stars) - point at any URL or file, get the gist
  • ๐Ÿ“œ agent-rules (5.6k+ stars) - shared rules/knowledge for coding with agents
  • ๐Ÿš€ Peekaboo (3.4k+ stars) - macOS screenshots & GUI automation for agents

Current Projects

  • ๐Ÿฆž OpenClaw - the AI that actually does things
  • ๐Ÿพ ClawHub - OpenClaw skill directory
  • ๐Ÿงน ClawSweeper - Weekly issue and PR triage bot
  • ๐Ÿฆ€ Crabbox - Warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.
  • ๐Ÿงช ask-molty - Ask Molty, shipped as an OpenClaw workspace
  • ๐Ÿš‡ VibeTunnel - Turn any browser into your terminal; command agents from the road (vt.sh)
  • ๐ŸŽš๏ธ CodexBar - May your tokens never run outโ€”keep agent limits in view.
  • ๐Ÿš€ Peekaboo - Lightning-fast macOS screenshots & GUI automation (MCP + CLI)
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰ summarize - Point at any URL or file. Get the gist.
  • ๐Ÿšฆ RepoBar - CI, PRs, releasesโ€”at a glance
  • ๐Ÿงต acpx - Headless CLI client for stateful ACP sessions
  • ๐Ÿ›Ÿ fs-safe - Race-resistant root-bounded filesystem primitives for Node.js
  • ๐Ÿงฐ gitcrawl - Local-first GitHub issue and pull request crawler for maintainer triage
  • ๐Ÿงญ gogcli - Google in your terminal (gog) (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Tasks, Sheets, Docs, Slides, People)
  • ๐Ÿ‘ป Poltergeist - The ghost that keeps your builds freshโ€”universal hot reload & file watcher
  • ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ wacli - WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send
  • ๐Ÿงพ wacrawl - Read-only WhatsApp Desktop archive extractor and encrypted backup
  • ๐Ÿชถ birdclaw - Twitter archive archaeology with Git-backed memory
  • ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ discrawl - Mirror Discord into SQLite; search server history locally
  • ๐Ÿงต slacrawl - Slack history, clawed into SQLite
  • ๐Ÿงฑ notcrawl - Local-first Notion crawler into SQLite and Markdown
  • ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ sag - ElevenLabs speech with mac-style say UX; streams to speakers by default
  • ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Brabble - Wake-word voice daemon for macOS; transcribes locally and fires configurable hooks
  • ๐Ÿ“ž vox - Let your agent make the phone call
  • ๐Ÿ”Š sonoscli - Control Sonos speakers: discover, group, queue, play Spotify
  • ๐Ÿ“ฃ ElevenLabsKit - ElevenLabs voices on tapโ€”SwiftPM-friendly, streaming-native.
  • ๐ŸŒŠ songsee - Spectrograms so pretty your ears get jealous
  • ๐Ÿ“ goplaces - Google Places API (New) client + CLI
  • ๐Ÿชต bslog - Better Stack logs without the browser spelunking
  • ๐Ÿงฒ gifgrep - GIF search for terminals: CLI output + TUI with inline previews
  • ๐Ÿ“ธ camsnap - RTSP snapshots, clips, motion CLI (Tapo-friendly)
  • ๐ŸŽง spogo - Spotify, but make it terminal
  • ๐Ÿ›ต ordercli - Your takeout timeline, in the terminal
  • ๐Ÿซ blucli - Play, group, and automate BluOS
  • ๐Ÿค– macOS Automator MCP - Your Friendly Neighborhood RoboScripterโ„ข
  • ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Claude Code MCP - One-shot MCP server for Claude Code (an agent inside your agent)
  • ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ AXorcist - The power of Swift compels your UI to obey!
  • ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ Tachikoma - Modern Swift AI SDK
  • ๐Ÿงฎ tokentally - One tiny lib for LLM token + cost math
  • โณ osc-progress - Tiny lib for OSC 9;4 terminal progress.
  • โœ‚๏ธ Trimmy - โ€œPaste once, run onceโ€ โ€” flattens multi-line shell snippets so they execute
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ TauTUI - Swift-native TUI that wonโ€™t tear
  • ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ Commander - Swift-first parsing, zero forks
  • ๐Ÿ“ remindctl - Apple Reminders from the terminal
  • ๐Ÿงณ mcporter - Call MCPs from TypeScript or package them as a CLI
  • ๐Ÿงฑ canvas - A browser canvas where agents can draw conclusions
  • ๐Ÿช Sweet Cookie - Inline-first browser cookie extractionโ€”no native addons
  • ๐Ÿฅ  sweetcookie - Browser cookies, baked fresh in Go
  • ๐Ÿง SweetCookieKit - Native macOS cookie extraction for Safari, Chromium, and Firefox
  • ๐Ÿญ sweetlink - Playwright vibes in your current tab; close the agent loop
  • ๐Ÿฆ bird - Fast X CLI for tweeting, replying, and reading (had to make it private)
  • ๐Ÿงฟ oracle - Whispering your tokens to the silicon sage
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ tmuxwatch - Lightweight TUI to watch tmux sessions
  • ๐Ÿงฐ agent-scripts - The toolbox my agents reach for first
  • ๐Ÿ“œ agent-rules - Shared rules/knowledge for coding with agents
  • ๐ŸŽจ Markdansi - Wraps, colors, linksโ€”no baggage.
  • ๐ŸŒˆ Swiftdansi - ANSI rainbows for Swift Markdown
  • ๐Ÿ“– llm.codes - Transform developer documentation for AI agents
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Stats Store - Fast, privacy-first analytics for Sparkle (stats.store)
  • ๐Ÿงฝ Demark - Mark My Words, HTML to Markdown!
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ eightctl - Control your sleep, from the terminal
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ imsg - Send, read, stream iMessage & SMS
  • ๐Ÿบ homebrew-tap - Brew tap for shipping my CLI tools fast

Legacy Work

  • ๐Ÿ”„ CodeLooper - macOS menubar app for Cursor workflow monitoring and automation
  • ๐Ÿงฉ InterposeKit - Modern Swift method swizzling
  • ๐Ÿช Aspects - AOP for Objective-C (10k+ stars)
  • ๐Ÿ“„ PSPDFKit - Industry-leading PDF SDK (exited 2021)
  • ๐Ÿ›‘ Terminator MCP - I'll be back... with your terminal output!
  • ๐Ÿชข Conduit MCP - Purr-fect MCP server for feline-fast file ops, web prowling, and data hunting
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ XC Sentinel - Intelligent Xcode automation with incremental builds and AI-friendly output
  • ๐Ÿต Matcha - Swift port of Bubble Tea TUI framework
  • ๐ŸŒก๏ธ VibeMeter - Archived: AI cost tracker for Cursor/OpenAI (vibemeter.ai)

GitHub Activity

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What I'm Doing

  • Living in the future - Learning and building tools to make agentic engineering faster for everyone
  • Writing about AI workflows - Sharing my learnings on steipete.me
  • Rapid prototyping - Full apps in days, not months
  • Speaking at conferences - On vibe coding vs agentic engineering and the future of development

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Connect

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Recognition

  • Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter
  • International speaker (See my talks)
  • 58k+ GitHub stars across personal projects; 400k+ across OpenClaw projects
  • Bootstrapped PSPDFKit to millions in ARR before exit

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Philosophy

"Ship beats perfect" - I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them with the world. Currently exploring how AI changes everything about software development.

Random Facts
  • Treat AI agents as "slot machines for programmers"
  • Run 3-6 Claude instances concurrently
  • Powered by Vienna coffee culture
  • Gym enthusiast (when not coding)
  • Coaches LGBTQ+ folks at Out In Tech

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    Upcoming and past speaking engagements for Peter Steinberger @steipete

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    Call MCPs via TypeScript, masquerading as simple TypeScript API. Or package them as cli.

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    Ask the oracle when you're stuck. Invoke GPT-5 Pro with a custom context and files.

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    "Paste once, run once." โ€” Trimmy flattens those multi-line shell snippets you copy so they actually paste and run.

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  6. CodexBar CodexBar Public

    Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.

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