Show HN: Junior – an open-source AI junior engineer that runs on your Mac
Hi HN, I'm Samar, a software engineer. I built Junior because I was spending more time fixing CI issues, babysitting PRs and resolving merge conflicts. I thought maybe i should automate all of it, and that's why I started building Junior. Junior is an agent that runs locally on macOS and picks up that kind of work. It connects with my Linear, Slack, Github etc and autopicks work for himself. It works on it and shares a report for me to review. It's open source under. I'd love feedback, especiall
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points · 4 votes
2026-10-26 12:00:03.163Z
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Repository: usejunior-sh/junior. Source account: Hi HN, I'm Samar, a software engineer. I built Junior because I was spending more time fixing CI issues, babysitting PRs and resolving merge conflicts. I thought maybe i should automate all of it, and that's why I started building Junior. Junior is an agent that runs locally on macOS and picks up that kind of work. It connects with my Linear, Slack, Github etc and autopicks work for himself. It works on it and shares a report for me to review. It's open source under. I'd love feedback, especiall
Observed adoption & comparisons
Source votes: 4 votes (Oct 26, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 4 (Oct 26, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “google/skills” (GitHub Trending, Nov 6, 2026); “mattpocock/skills” (GitHub Trending, Nov 6, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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