The Loadout #01: Pick your build, skip the grind
The weekly AI build loadout from Agentic Tools. Issue 01, 14 Oct 2026.
GG, you found the patch notes. Every week brings a new “best model ever” and three new agent frameworks. You don’t need all of it. You need a loadout: one model, one framework, one host, and a first step you can start tonight.
What’s Agentic Tools?
Agentic Tools is a free AI stack picker. Type what you want to build (“a Discord bot for my clan”) and get a model, framework, host, no-code alternative, rough cost and first step. No sign-up, no API key, and it runs in your browser.
Stack of the week
1. Discord / Telegram bot: the clan butler
Model: Gemini 3.8 Flash or GPT-6 Luna
Framework: discord.js / discord.py / grammY
Host: Railway or Fly.io (always-on, not serverless)
No-code: BotGhost
Cost: ~$0–10/mo
First step: get
/pingreplying before adding AI. Add per-user rate limits so nobody can burn your token budget.
2. Game mod AI: NPCs that talk back
Model: Ollama (local), or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Framework: Godot or BepInEx (Unity mods)
Cost: ~$0–5/mo (local models are free)
First step: load a hello-world mod, then call local Ollama for NPC dialogue. Never ship a paid API key in a mod.
3. Vibe coding: idea to URL by the weekend
Model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 or GPT-6.1 Sol
Tools: Cursor, Claude Code or Aider, then deploy on Vercel
No-code: Bolt.new, Lovable
Cost: ~$0–40/mo
First step: write a one-paragraph spec (who, 3 screens, what data) and let the agent scaffold it. Commit every working step and review the diffs.
Patch notes: news from the last 2 weeks
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is live (13 Oct). Google’s new frontier model is in the API, AI Studio and the Gemini app (Pro/Ultra), with a 1M unified token limit. Intro price: $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens until 30 Nov, then $4 / $20. Google blog
Meta launches Muse Wonder (12 Oct). Meta’s new agent-focused model handles long-running tasks, coding and computer use, with 1M context. It costs $4 in / $20 out per 1M on the Meta Model API. Muse Wonder Full is Muse Code subscribers only. Meta dev blog
Mistral Large 4 preview (6 Oct). A 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model (52B active). The preview API is on Mistral Studio, and the weights are due by the end of October. Self-hosters, watch this one. Mistral
Prices change fast, so check before you commit.
Your quest this week
Pick a stack, ship the first step, and reply with what you built. The best builds get featured in #02.
🎮 Find your stack · Forward this to the friend who keeps saying “I should build a bot”.
The Loadout is free. No affiliate links in this issue.