Sylph
the open-source company brain behind my YC startup
Details
- External ID
- 48232533
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sylph
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5969305331179321
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello HN! I'm Claire, founder of nao Labs (YC X25). Two months ago I started building a company brain in a git repo. Now I fully run my company with 8 AI agents, 20+ skills, and a self-learning context repo.I built it in a git repo because I refused to lock into any tool - not a context layer, not a specific agent harness. Today I'm open sourcing it so others can build their own.Sylph is the open source version of the company brain I use. It gives you the structure to host your own company context, build skills, create AI agents, and already has a self-learning loop scaffolded. It is a Git repo, with no lock-in on any tool, that can work with any agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.Sylph is made for you to make your own: fork it, run /sylph-setup, and it will build your own company brain according to your own context.Repo: github.com/getnao/sylphHow I built it: https://thenewaiorder.substack.com/p/i-built-a-company-brain...Tell me what you think, and if you've got some tips if you built an AI brain for your company too!
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- company knowledge management
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an orchestration setup organizing text/markdown prompts, Git operations, and standard LLM CLI/agent tool definitions in a repository.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #25 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Legit, Open source Git-based Version control for AI agents · hn · 2026-01-09 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- VAEN · hn · 2026-05-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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