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Sylph

the open-source company brain behind my YC startup

Details

External ID
48232533
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Sylph
Website domain
github.com
Launched
May 22, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
10
Upvotes percentile
0.5969305331179321
Tags
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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

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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