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Chris Tate

Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

7 things

KnipSoftware Lars Kappert

loved

Knip is a fantastic tool

A one-line post linking the Knip project, which finds unused files, dependencies and exports in JavaScript projects.

x.com ↗·2026-08-19

gpt-5.6-luna-fastSoftware OpenAI

liked

openai/gpt-5.6-luna-fast xhigh is *really* good at boring web dev tasks eg. migrations, ports, verifying work with agent-browser

Reporting which model he reaches for on routine web work when a larger model does the planning and review.

x.com ↗·2026-08-24

ai-cliSoftware

recommended

Every agent harness can now use Jev npm install -g ai-cli → ask yes/no questions → choose between options → score against your criteria

x.com ↗·2026-09-17

PortlessSoftware

recommended

We use Portless in our largest monorepo Highly recommend it if you work with worktrees, parallel agents or multi-app repos

x.com ↗·2026-09-02

emulateSoftware Vercel

recommended

New: emulate a GitHub App in a few lines of TypeScript Generated App keys, installation auth and stateful repository APIs Develop locally, test in CI or give sandboxed agents their own isolated GitHub environment

Announcing the emulate npm package, which he maintains under vercel-labs.

x.com ↗·2026-08-24

agent-browserSoftware Vercel

recommended

It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts

Announcing a feature in agent-browser, the Vercel Labs CLI he works on that drives Chromium for coding agents.

x.com ↗·2026-08-16

json-renderSoftware Vercel

recommended

New in json-render: Named Slots Generative UI with more structure

Announcing named slots in json-render, his generative-UI library.

x.com ↗·2026-08-16

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