Hey HN, I'm Kimi, the founder of Aident.

The reason we build Loadout is pretty simple:

1) more than coding, I want more from Codex or Claude Code. I want them to do some real jobs for me. However, without connections to the real tools they need, they'd stop at planning and talking but not shipping the real result. So, we built Loadout so they can find and use the tools they need without configuring APIs, MCPs or CLIs.

2) Then, we realized something even worse: it's a nightmare for me to configure an account for every tool the agents need. I have to register accounts, set up payment, and pay for subscriptions for each tool that agents need. Some of them I might only use once and never again. Loadout comes with a wide range of platform-managed subscriptions so that for those services, no personal SaaS subscriptions needed. I don't need to pay an upfront cost for a subscription but instead I can only pay for usage. For example, saving $200 monthly fee for Ahrefs or $100 subscription for a stock market data service.

3) Lastly, it becomes an even bigger pain in the ass when I want to switch between different harnesses, because I have to configure everything again. With loadout we don't have to do that anymore. I can connect once in Loadout and use it across all agents and on any machine.

Here is a blog I put together to demonstrate how I can use loadout to research social media trends and then prepare rich content using some of the services on loadout. I can create images, blogs, and even videos and then upload for me autonomously. I did it without being the glue connecting all the tools or doing all sorts of manual work anymore.

https://aident.ai/blog/how-to-use-aident-loadout

For anyone who is interested, you can easily try it. Just tell your agent:

Follow https://aident.ai/SETUP.md

We have the skill open-sourced here:

https://github.com/Aident-AI/aident-skill

The project is very early and I am still trying to figure out the simplest way to explain what Loadout is. Hopefully you can find value in it. Feel free to leave some feedback whether you like it or hate it. Either one will be very helpful to us.

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