Tools This Week

The agent stack is getting real. Three tools worth knowing about.

Nia

Indexes your codebase so your agent stops hallucinating about your own stack. Install with npx nia-wizard@latest, point it at a repo, and it works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor. Free tier is generous.

OpenClaw 2026.3.23

DeepSeek provider plugin shipped. Qwen pay-as-you-go pricing live. OpenRouter auto-pricing. Chrome MCP now waits for tabs to load instead of screenshotting blank pages. The gap between Claude Code and OpenClaw keeps widening. One is polished. One is flexible.

Cq

Stack Overflow died in December. Down to 3,862 questions from 200,000+ a month at its peak. Cq is the replacement built for agents. Instead of burning tokens solving the same problems in isolation, agents share solutions with each other.

Scaling Without Infrastructure

The companies rewriting the rules this week.

Global Scale, Zero DevOps

Relevance AI runs 50,000 agents with zero infrastructure team. Leonardo.AI processes 4.5 million images daily. Both Sydney-based. Neither has DevOps. A single DevOps engineer in Australia costs $150K+ and takes months to hire. For a 15-person startup, that’s three months of runway. So they don’t hire one.

Your Move

One thing to act on this week.

Start Your CLAUDE.md

If you’re using Claude Code without a CLAUDE.md file, you’re leaving half the value on the table. Drop our template into your project root. Fill in the brackets. Tell Claude to read it before your first task. Five minutes of setup saves hours of hallucination cleanup.