AI Agents Weekly Digest - November 23, 2025

From Data Reality to Cost Efficiency: Practical Agent Deployments & Industry Readiness

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Seema Phalke & Yujian Tang
November 23, 2025

The conversation has shifted toward lessons from real-world deployments, pragmatic advice for reducing operational costs, and industry insights on readiness, with a focus on what works in production versus hype.

Special Announcements

  • Official r/AI_Agents November Hackathon
    The official November hackathon by RAI Agents announced a potential new update or event running from November 22 to November 29. Participants will compete to build AI agents in just one week, with the top team eligible for a $20,000 investment from Beta Fund. The timing aligns with Thanksgiving, offering ample opportunity for members to experiment and innovate. Sign-ups are open now, and winners will be considered for the AI Explorer Fund.

  1. I build AI agents for a living — it’s a mess out there: An insider perspective on the organizational and technical chaos in bringing agentic AI to production environments.

  2. Stop burning money sending JSON to your agents: Discussion on cost-saving strategies and efficient architecture decisions for agent systems.

  3. ChatGPT lied to me, so I built an AI scientist: A user-driven initiative to improve reliability and trustworthiness by building a new agentic AI system after experiencing issues with accuracy.

  4. Unpopular opinion: Most companies aren’t ready for Agentic AI: A reflection on organizational challenges and lack of preparedness for integrating advanced AI agents.

  5. It's been a big week for Agentic AI—here are 10 updates: A post compiling notable updates and news from the agentic AI ecosystem.

  1. Brightmind Club — ADHD Agent

    • Description: An AI agent designed to help with ADHD — it’s called the “first ADHD app that actually works.”

    • Highlights:

      • Focused on real-life usefulness for people with ADHD.

      • Built as a dedicated product ( link).

    • Demo / Code: Website: brightmind.club 

  2. Attrove — Context-Aware Comms Agent

    • Description: An agent that monitors your email, chat, and meetings and surfaces what matters. Instead of replying, it filters and ranks threads, then gives you a daily rundown or pre-meeting brief.

    • Highlights:

      • Connects to Gmail/Outlook, Slack/Teams, Calendar / Meet.

      • Event-driven: runs scheduled or when something changes, not just reactive.

      • Uses a salience layer to filter and rank messages so the LLM only gets relevant info — helps manage cost.

      • Human-in-the-loop: it doesn’t auto-respond — it surfaces actionable items for you.

    • Demo / Code: Live on attrove.com

  3. distil-commit-bot TS

    • Description: A commit message assistant for TypeScript codebases, built as a small LLM-powered bot.

    • Highlights:

      • Uses a distilled model (Qwen-3, 0.6B parameters) so it’s lightweight and runs locally.

      • Supports watching a git repository for changes: can auto-suggest commit messages when diffs appear.

    • Demo / Code: GitHub repo: distil-labs/distil-commit-bot

  4. RowboatX — CLI Agent Framework

    • Description: An open-source CLI tool (RowboatX) that lets you run background agents locally. Built to be lightweight and compatible with many LLMs + MPC servers.

    • Highlights:

      • Uses the filesystem as state: memory, logs, and agent metadata are just files — easy to inspect and version.

      • A “supervisor” agent handles running and coordinating other agents, using Unix commands where possible.

      • Supports human-in-the-loop: agents can pause and ask for input (like drafting an email) before continuing.

      • Example agents included:

        • Podcast generator (RSS → summary → TTS via ElevenLabs → ffmpeg)

        • Slack/email rewriter that replies in your tone + memory.

    • Demo / Code: GitHub: rowboatlabs/rowboat 

    • Usage: Run via npx @rowboatlabs/rowboatx 

  5. Weaszel — AI Companion

    • Description: Termed a “cozy AI companion,” Weaszel is an agent living in your terminal that surfs the web, helps with research, shopping, and “boring stuff” so you don’t have to.

    • Highlights:

      • Terminal-first UX: works where devs already work.

      • Autonomous web surfing: can browse, read, summarize, and act.

      • Designed for low-friction, background help: think of it as your agentic sidekick.

    • Demo / Code: Website: weaszel.com 

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