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Active · StatusGlance family
StatusGlance / Readiness
Evidence-backed Alpha, Beta, and Live readiness from one cumulative manifest. Existing Project Status commands and integrations remain compatible.
Open-source tools for everyone
Openly Useful
Useful things, openly made.
Useful software gets better when people can inspect it, adapt it, and contribute back. Explore our open-source projects, documentation, and community work.
Selected projects
Built to be used.
Made to be shared.
A growing family of focused, interoperable projects. Each one earns its place by solving something real.
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Active · StatusGlance family
StatusGlance / RunGlance
Bounded, low-overhead activity views with truthful lane progress, explicit unknowns, and read-only status by default. Run activity stays separate from product acceptance.
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Active · Agent infrastructure
Agent Workflow Swarms
Three model-agnostic skills for recovering existing work, coordinating complex tasks, and carrying verified context across tools and sessions.
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Active · Project operations
Linear Project Skills
Three scope-aware skills and an MCP server for bootstrapping, synchronizing, and reconciling Linear project work with evidence.
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Incubating · Operations
Operations Pulse
A focused operational pulse skill and MCP server for summarizing the signals that need attention without adding dashboard noise.
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Active · Skill infrastructure
Skill Feedback Engine
A local-first feedback loop that turns agent corrections, recurring failures, and validated patterns into private, review-gated skill improvements.
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In development · Knowledge infrastructure
CiteWire
Attribution-first MCP infrastructure for read-only news and research metadata, with source credit and canonical links kept attached.
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Incubating · Open interfaces
SportsMCP
Practical interfaces for sports data and agent workflows, developed in public with portability and usefulness at the center.
One brand, two places
Pull up a chair.
There’s room at the screen.
This is the open-source side of Openly Useful: shared terminals, patient help, readable notes, and the quiet confidence that you are allowed to look inside. Our products and studio work live at OpenlyUseful.com .
FamiliarInspectableMaintained together
How we work
Clear principles.
Visible practice.
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Open by default
The work, the reasoning, and the path to contribute should be visible.02
Useful before impressive
We begin with real needs and favor durable utility over novelty.03
Evidence over claims
We document decisions, test outcomes, and say plainly what remains unknown.04
Maintained in public
Projects have clear ownership, documented decisions, and an honest path forward.Open invitation
Good work gets better
when more people can enter.
Use the tools. Question the assumptions. Open an issue. Improve the documentation. Bring a need worth solving.
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