AI Kits

Anthropic Cookbook

OSS

Official patterns library from Anthropic.

First place to look when designing an agent prompt.

DSPy

OSS

Prompts as programs you compile.

Compelling research direction; not quite production-ready as of 2026.

LangChain

OSS

Useful primitives, controversial abstractions.

We took inspiration, not dependency. Worth reading even if you don't adopt.

LlamaIndex

OSS

Focused on RAG and document ingestion.

Better defaults than LangChain if your problem is really retrieval.

Hugging Face Datasets

OSS

Hugging Face's datasets library + hub.

Essential infrastructure for fine-tuning; also great for eval datasets.

Inspect AI

OSS

UK AISI eval framework.

What we'd use for before-you-ship LLM tests on any serious system.

OpenTelemetry GenAI

OSS

OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for LLM traces.

The emerging standard. We wired the VORLUX orchestrator against this spec.

promptfoo

OSS

Config-driven eval harness.

Pairs well with CI. YAML-first approach that scales past one person.

LM Studio

freemium

GUI alternative to Ollama if you prefer a window to a terminal.

Identical capability, friendlier onboarding. Good for client demos.

Ollama

OSS

Local LLMs, one command.

The backbone of VORLUX's local-first stance. Everyone should have this installed.

vLLM

OSS

High-throughput inference server.

When you outgrow Ollama and need real QPS — usually past 10 concurrent users.