Skillsync is a Y Combinator W26 startup building 'GitHub for agent sessions.' It captures the work of AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, stores every session in one searchable place, and turns the best sessions into reusable skills any agent on a team can load. Founded by ex-Juspay Rust engineers Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar and Nishant Joshi, the company started as a tool for finding elite engineers by their GitHub code and evolved into infrastructure for sharing agent knowledge across teams.
In this Agentforce Demo Day broadcast from Salesforce HQ in San Francisco, host Leah McGowen-Hare sits down with builders from Indeed, LIV Golf, and SharkNinja, plus Salesforce product leader Nathan Price, to show how they build, test, deploy, and observe AI agents with Agentforce. The episode centers on Agent Script — a newly open-sourced scripting language that blends deterministic logic with the reasoning of large language models — and Headless 360, an open, extensible platform for the full agent development lifecycle. Through live demos, the guests reveal real metrics, best practices like playbooks and human-in-the-loop logging, and the shift toward self-healing agents built with coding tools.
Robert Brennan is co-founder and CEO of All Hands AI, the company behind OpenHands, an MIT-licensed open source platform for AI coding agents that started life in 2024 as an OpenDevin fork built in 24 hours after Cognition's Devin demo. A former Google search engineer who patented an answer-extraction algorithm shipped inside Google Search in 2013, Brennan later founded DataFire and led open source at Fairwinds before helping launch OpenHands with Xingyao Wang and Graham Neubig. The company has raised roughly $23.8M total across a $5M Menlo-led seed and an $18.8M Series A led by Madrona in November 2025.

Cognition is the San Francisco AI lab behind Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, and the post-acquisition home of the Windsurf IDE. Founded in 2023 by three IOI gold-medalists, the company builds agents that plan, write, test and ship production code, and is reshaping how engineering teams scale.
Factory builds agent-native software development for enterprises. Its Droids - specialized AI agents for coding, reliability, product, and knowledge work - take tickets, write code, open PRs, and triage incidents alongside human engineers. Founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, the San Francisco company raised a $150M Series C in April 2026 at a $1.5B valuation led by Khosla Ventures.

Tim Dettmers is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), best known for making large language models accessible on consumer hardware. He created the bitsandbytes library (2.2M monthly installs), co-authored QLoRA - a technique enabling fine-tuning of 65B-parameter models on a single GPU - and pioneered LLM.int8() quantization. With over 18,000 citations across his work, Dettmers has become one of the most influential voices in efficient deep learning, consistently arguing that computational democratization - not AGI hype - is where the real progress lives.