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Prompt_Engineering

NirDiamant/Prompt_Engineering

22 prompt engineering techniques with hands-on Jupyter Notebook tutorials, from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies for leveraging LLMs.

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ChatGPT-Shortcut

rockbenben/ChatGPT-Shortcut

Stop writing prompts from scratch — a searchable prompt library for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Cursor · Русский 한국어 العربية हिन्दी ไทย ｜ 别再从头写提示词：现成的拿来就用，好用的收进自己的库

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Guardrails

NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

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unstract

Zipstack/unstract

LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows

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• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
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plano

katanemo/plano

Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic.

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mcp-context-forge

IBM/mcp-context-forge

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

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Hands-On-AI-Engineering

Sumanth077/Hands-On-AI-Engineering

A curated collection of practical AI projects implementing OCR systems, RAG, AI agents, and other AI use cases.

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dyad

dyad-sh/dyad

Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!

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learning

amitness/learning

A log of things I'm learning

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open-webui

open-webui/open-webui

User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

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unsloth

unslothai/unsloth

Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

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nanobot

HKUDS/nanobot

Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps

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• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
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