toolhost
Let an LLM write its own tools at runtime: parsed with acorn, versioned in SQLite, run in a supervised worker process
Details
- External ID
- 1365321397
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- toolhost
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6369459390212657
- Tags
- agents, anthropic, function-calling, llm, nodejs, openai, sqlite, tool-use, typescript
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- runtime tool generation and execution environment for llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It uses standard Node.js libraries (Acorn for AST parsing, SQLite/better-sqlite3 for persistence, and worker_threads or child_process for sandboxing) which AI coders can implement easily.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #36 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Create and Maintain Filesystem Structures for LLMs [v1.0.11 Out] · hn · 2026-06-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Llm.sql · hn · 2026-04-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Cachet · hn · 2026-06-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- llmaker · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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