frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Show HN: Toolbase – Build reliable AI teammates by example, not instruction

2•David1238•1y ago
Hey HN, we’re David and Ethan, co-founders of Toolbase.

Toolbase is an AI agent and workflow builder that helps you quickly create production-grade AI automations — batteries included.

Try it without registering here: https://gettoolbase.com/

------- The dev cycle in Toolbase -------

1. Define a rough goal.

2. Connect any API or MCP server (we have thousands, or bring your own).

3. Teach the AI what valid input and output examples look like (these later become your unit tests!).

4. Let Toolbase generate the perfect prompt, code, workflow, or agent.

5. Deploy your project as an API, MCP server, or chat interface!

Coding optional. Sharing encouraged.

Note: If you’re familiar with Cursor/Windsurf and the core concepts behind frameworks like Mastra (which Toolbase runs on), you already know how to use Toolbase. You retain the flexibility of coding but avoid boilerplate and plumbing tasks (integration, validation, context mapping, testing, etc.) unless you explicitly choose to do them.

------- Demo -------

https://www.loom.com/share/540c61b2c5634996b088ebbb16989cf0?...

This simple agent validates company billing addresses in our CRM (Pipedrive) by researching them through Tavily search. If there’s an address mismatch, it asks a human to pick the right one via email (watch on 2x speed):

Output email for the example shown in the demo: https://gettoolbase.com/assets/demo-screenshot.png

Producing code and more deterministic workflows follows a similar process.

------- Why another agent/workflow builder? -------

We started building Toolbase out of frustration with existing frameworks, especially for production use, and the lack of IDE support for MLOps artifacts, such as prompts, golden data, workflows, and evaluations. Since much of the code for agentic systems can be dynamically generated and validated using these artifacts, they often become even more important than the code itself.

After speaking with other builders, we also realized that manually coding workflows, experimenting with prompts through trial-and-error, and setting up infrastructure/integrations all took far more time than they should. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf help, but extracting meaning from AI-generated code is slow. Chatbots whipping up arcane code potions in tinted chat windows, which is the other end of the spectrum, demos really well but isn’t maintainable at all (sorry, vibe-coding). So we went with something in the middle: an AI-assiststed visual builder with full code fallback.

------- What do you think? -------

We’re excited for any feedback, thoughts, or questions from the HN community.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

- David & Ethan

Comments

David1238•1y ago
If you want to jump straight to trying it, you can preview it here:

https://gettoolbase.com

Try clicking the play button at the bottom right of workflow pane that appears next to the big blue text.

Clicking each node after you submit your query shows you its results for the run.

Full-screening the experience (icon on the top right) and expanding a node (same icon within a step of the workflow) lets you train that prompt in the same way we did in the demo.

The first node (“User Intent Extractor”) is purposefully vague so you can train it yourself!

The Underhanded C Contest

https://www.underhanded-c.org/
1•jruohonen•43s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm

https://hypergrid.systems/war.gov-ufo-viewer/microfilm2?page=2
2•keepamovin•3m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Fight Traffic Cam Tickets?

1•voakbasda•4m ago•0 comments

100jobs.page is seeing ~200 visitors daily since launching 2 days ago

1•typekev•5m ago•1 comments

Chinese AI engineers are Silicon Valley's new power players

https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/
2•tortilla•7m ago•0 comments

Thomas Massie for Congress accepts Bitcoin donations

https://www.massiemoneybomb.com/donate
1•Cider9986•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KeepDue – private iPhone reminders for free trials and renewals

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepdue/id6763344674
2•willsuo•15m ago•0 comments

Zig versus Rust in 2026

https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/zig-vs-rust-in-2026/
2•kaycebasques•16m ago•0 comments

Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners

https://botcs.github.io/reason-to-play/
2•paraschopra•17m ago•0 comments

That Great Sucking Sound

https://favorablethrivingconditions.substack.com/p/that-great-sucking-sound
2•paulpauper•24m ago•0 comments

Science Is Still Persuasion

https://hunchbox.substack.com/p/science-is-still-persuasion
2•paulpauper•24m ago•1 comments

The Assignment That Tells Hiring Managers Nothing New

https://stevearrants.substack.com/p/the-assignment-that-tells-hiring
1•eigenBasis•27m ago•0 comments

Gut Instinct: Connecting with our intuition

https://www.cheltenhamzen.co.uk/writings/gut-instinct
1•lawrenceyan•30m ago•0 comments

How do LLMs understand an artist's inner universe?

https://jimiwen.substack.com/p/how-do-llm-understand-artistic-inner
1•jimiwen•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What would you want in a GitHub alternative?

1•vednig•37m ago•1 comments

Supply chain compromise in mistralai Python package

https://github.com/mistralai/client-python/issues/523
2•meander_water•38m ago•0 comments

The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Kitchen

https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/05/11/the-cathedral-the-bazaar-and-the-kitchen/
1•ultratalk•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 3D pin art Audio Visualizer

https://github.com/wyattmattoe/pin-art-visualizer
1•wyattmattoe•40m ago•0 comments

Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples...
5•737min•44m ago•1 comments

Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html
1•pinewurst•44m ago•0 comments

Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Understanding, Generation

https://github.com/facebookresearch/tuna-2
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

ClickFix Campaign: I Searched for Tailscale and Found a Phishing Operation

https://perezbox.com/articles/clickfix-campaign-tailscale-nine-month-phishing-operation
1•sucuri2•1h ago•0 comments

Local LLM Proxy: Turn Idle LLM Compute into Universal Credits

https://github.com/wink-run/local-llm-proxy
1•zwling8•1h ago•0 comments

Kettle: Attested Builds for Verifiable Software Provenance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08363
1•badcryptobitch•1h ago•0 comments

Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-business-dealings-under-gop-scrutiny-ahead-of-openais-ipo...
5•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•1 comments

Productivity Isn't About Going Faster

https://humanpro.co/articles/productivity-isnt-about-going-faster/
6•gx•1h ago•0 comments

End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging rolling out for Android and iPhone users

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-ios-end-to-end-encrypted-rcs...
3•thunderbong•1h ago•2 comments

Elon Musk's Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spacex-ai-deal-elon-musk-f86ea369
5•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•4 comments

MCP-Guardrail

https://github.com/kaarhsg-cpu/mcp-guardrail
1•karthikhermes•1h ago•0 comments

Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06130
1•lexandstuff•1h ago•0 comments