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Agent Hosting Where to run an always-on AI agent: server size, Hetzner, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and nonprofit credits as of October 2026, locking the server down with Tailscale and UFW, Slack Socket Mode, and how to avoid the API bill that surprised one shliach.
Agent Safety Rules the shluchim agent builders learned the hard way in 2026: give an agent only the access it needs, make it draft instead of send, give it its own email account, keep passwords in a vault, never paste logs into a group, and assume someone will try to trick it.
AI and Shabbos Can an AI agent keep working while a shliach keeps Shabbos? What the groups discussed in 2026, what the Chabad.org article does and does not say, and how members build Shabbos holds into their agents. Not a psak: ask your rav.
AI and Torah Accuracy Why AI invents Torah sources and Rebbe quotes, the tools that cut the problem down in 2026 (Daiah, the Sefaria and Torah MCPs), and a five-minute check before you quote anything.
AI Events for Shlichus, 2025 to 2026 A dated list of the AI-for-shlichus events from the November 2025 Kinus AI Day to the AI track at the Kinus Hashluchim starting November 4, 2026, with links to every recording.
AI Refusals and Honest Workarounds When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Suno refuse ordinary shlichus work (a sicha translation flagged as copyright, a photo of the Rebbe that keeps changing, a safety filter that misfires) and the honest ways members got the job done: context, plain text, a fresh chat, or a better tool.
Ask AI About Your Screen Show the AI the email, flyer, form or error you are stuck on instead of describing it: screenshots on a phone, live screen sharing in Gemini, and the desktop shortcuts for Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude, checked October 2026.
berel.me A growing collection of free, single-purpose web tools for shluchim at berel.me: raffles, labels, luach, sicha tools, Hebrew-date conversion and more, most of them vibe-coded and run in the browser.
Bookkeeping Agents A QuickBooks Online agent that suggests categories while the shliach approves every change, and a Gmail-to-Sheets tracker for Zelle, Venmo and PayPal gifts. Have your CPA review any setup.
Building Web Apps with AI A step-by-step guide for a shliach building a small app or site with AI: deciding whether to build, writing the first prompt, testing, hosting, linking it to a ChabadOne site, phone apps, and the mistakes members made.
Canva The design editor where AI flyers become editable: Magic Layers, the Canva connector in ChatGPT and Claude, print settings, and free Canva Pro for nonprofits.
ChabadOne Integration How shluchim get AI-built pages, forms and emails into ChabadOne, what agents can and cannot do there, and the status of AI access to the ChabadOne CRM as of October 2026.
Chassidus Copyright and Access The 2026 debates over who may digitize, OCR and open up the Rebbeim's seforim for AI, what each side argued, and what a builder can use today.
ChatGPT (OpenAI) OpenAI's assistant, now split into Chat, Work and Codex, with GPT-6 models, Dots agents on the top plans, and the group's usual pick for beginners who want images.
ChatTorah A Torah study assistant built by a shliach in the group to answer from real seforim with clickable sources. In private beta as of October 2026, with a free tier and paid plans from $13 a month.
Claude (Anthropic) Anthropic's assistant: the current models (Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5), what each plan costs, and what shluchim use it for as of October 2026.
Claude Cowork and Anthropic's Agent Tools Cowork, Dispatch, Claude Design, Claude in Chrome, Claude Tag and Claude Code for non-coders: what each does, which plan you need, what shluchim got done with them in 2026, and where they still stumble (ChabadOne iframes included).
Community-Built Chabad Apps The checked roster of apps and sites shluchim and members built and shared in the AI for Shlichus chats, one line each, with dead links removed.
CRM and Donor-Management Tools The donor and contact systems shluchim use in late 2026, with verified prices where vendors publish them and how well each one works with AI.
CRM Automation & Donor Management How shluchim use AI to enter donations, log contacts from voice notes, and build follow-up lists in their CRM, with the guardrails that kept it from going wrong.
dach.dev A free online library of Chassidus as real text (Likkutei Sichos in all 39 volumes, with footnotes alongside), the group's usual answer when someone needs a sicha in a form an AI can read.
Daiah (Chabad.AI) The Chassidus library and AI study assistant from the Chabad publishers, public at chabad.ai since October 15, 2026. What it covers, what it costs, where it falls short, and how it compares with NotebookLM and ChatGPT.
Dicta and Iluy (formerly Mekorotai) Dicta, the Israeli nonprofit behind free Hebrew text tools, demoed a Chabad Torah AI at the Kinus in November 2025. By October 2026 the old Mekorotai link opens Iluy, with a Chabad library option. Plus the Nakdan for nekudos.
ElevenLabs Text-to-speech, voice cloning and transcription; the group's pick when a voice has to sound like a person, Hebrew included.
Flyer Design The current AI flyer workflow, ready-made prompts (redesign an old flyer, a Yom Tov calendar flyer), fixes for garbled Hebrew, and getting Chabad objects right.
Fundraising Grant applications, appeal letters, campaign pages, donor follow-up and receipts with AI, from what shluchim actually ran in 2025 and 2026.
GabAI The shluchim fork of NanoClaw: a personal shlichus agent you host on your own server and talk to over WhatsApp or Slack, with a community skills library. Free software, gated access, real setup work.
Gamma and Other Presentation Tools Gamma builds slide decks, one-page sites and documents from a prompt; how it compares in 2026 with Claude Design, NotebookLM slides, Canva and the rest.
Gemini Google's assistant, wired into Gmail, Drive, Docs and Sheets; the group's favorite in late 2025, out of favor by fall 2026, and back in the race with Gemini 4 Argon on October 13, 2026.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Google's source-grounded research tool, renamed Gemini Notebook in July 2026: upload your own sources and get cited answers, audio and video overviews; the group's shared notebook of the Rebbe's Torah runs on it.
Google AI Studio Google's free developer playground for Gemini models, with a Build mode that turns a prompt into a working app; free to use, with daily limits that tightened in 2026.
Grok The Grok assistant and the Grok Bot agents, from the xAI team now under SpaceX; chat is free to try, Grok Bot starts at $30 a month, and members praise its speed and voice but not its security model.
Hebrew & Yiddish What works in October 2026 for translating, transcribing, typesetting, reading aloud and putting Hebrew in pictures, and where Hebrew and Yiddish still break: garbled letters in images, right-to-left layout, Rashi script and ksav yad.
Hermes Agent Nous Research's free, open-source personal agent: easy setup, many models, long memory that learns as you use it. Less isolation than NanoClaw or GabAI, which is the trade-off shluchim weighed in 2026.
Image Generation (Beyond Flyers) The current image models (ChatGPT Images 2.5, Nano Banana 2 and Pro, Midjourney V8.1 and others), which to use for what, and how to keep images accurate to Chabad practice.
Kinus Hashluchim AI Day, November 2025 History: the AI Day at the Kinus Hashluchim on Thursday, November 13, 2025, what launched there, what the group did in the weeks after, and how the threads it opened turned out by October 2026.
learningtanach.org A shliach's AI-built Megillas Esther site: a visual Megillah reader plus the Esther Atlas of maps, artifacts and sources. Also the group's most honest case study of an AI-coded launch going wrong on Purim 2026.
Letter Writing & Communications Thank-you notes, appeals, eulogies, press releases and emails with AI: give it your own past writing, strip the AI tells, check every fact, and send only after you read it.
Lovable A web-app builder that turns a chat description into a hosted app; the usual first try for shluchim building a single-page tool or event site. Pro is $25/month for 100 credits, with a small free allowance.
maamorim.app A Hebrew index of summaries and background for the Rebbe's maamorim, arranged by parsha, Yom Tov and year; useful as a vetted source to paste into an AI rather than asking the AI to summarize from memory.
Manus An AI agent that carries out multi-step jobs (research, slides, websites, video) and hands back the finished file; independent again after China blocked Meta's purchase, with Manus 2.0 released September 2026.
Master Prompt Library The copy-paste prompts shluchim actually reuse, from the AI for Shlichus groups and ShluchimExchange.ai: step by step, honest feedback, human-sounding writing, speech notes, an event setup assistant, a Gmail-to-Sheets payment tracker, and more, each with where it came from and when.
MCP Connectors What MCP connectors are, the ones shluchim use (Torah MCP, Sefaria, Hebcal, Salesforce, Canva, Gmail and Drive, QuickBooks), how to add one in Claude and ChatGPT, and how to stay safe.
Meeting-Transcription Tools Tools that record, transcribe and summarize meetings (Zoom AI Companion, Fathom, Fireflies, Granola, Wispr Flow's Notetaker, Plaud and others), plus the board-notes agent pattern and when not to record at all.
megillah.app A free follow-along Megillah site with live group sync, ten languages and a tap-Haman gragger, built with AI in about ten days before Purim 2026 with feature requests from hundreds of shluchim.
Moshiach and AI The Chassidic lens the group keeps returning to: technology that removes limits of time and place is meant for spreading Torah, and AI makes the shliach's human work more needed, not less.
Nano Banana Google's family of image models inside Gemini and AI Studio: Nano Banana 2 is the default, Nano Banana Pro the high-end option, and what shluchim use them for.
NanoClaw Free, open-source personal AI agent you run on your own server and message from WhatsApp, Slack and other apps; each conversation runs in its own Docker container. Now at v2, and the base of the shluchim fork GabAI.
Nonprofit Discounts and Free Programs Every nonprofit and teacher program the group uses, checked on the vendors' own pages on 2026-10-21: Claude, ChatGPT, Google, Microsoft, Canva, Adobe, ElevenLabs, Slack, AWS, TechSoup and Goodstack.
Paid vs. Free What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini cost as of October 2026, how usage limits work, when the free tier is enough, and the two billing surprises (the Agent SDK change and the AWS Bedrock trap) that hit agent builders.
Perplexity AI search that shows its web sources; the group's pick for research that needs links, plus the free Comet browser, Model Council on Max, and a nonprofit Enterprise price.
Personal AI Agents Muse, Instinct, Tab, OpenAI's dots and Grok Bot took over the shluchim chats in September and October 2026. What each one is, what shluchim tried, the privacy argument, and a checklist before you connect one to your WhatsApp or email.
Privacy & Data Sharing Where to turn off model training in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini (checked October 2026), what never to paste into a chat, and how much access to give an AI agent.
Prompting AI Image Tools to Depict Your Community Describe the clothing, the setting and the activity, not a group label, to get accurate pictures of a Chabad House and its community from AI image and video tools.
Qwen Alibaba's free chat assistant and open-weight model family; one member's tests put it first for word-by-word Hebrew translation of pesukim, with shoresh and transliteration.
Real Shlichus AI Use Cases What shluchim and shluchos actually did with AI from August 2025 to October 2026, drawn from about 700 uses reported in the AI for Shlichus groups: donations into the CRM, flyers, shiur prep, delivery routes, personal agents and the tools members built, each marked by how far it got.
Sefaria The largest free digital Torah library, and since 2026 the Sefaria Texts MCP lets Claude or ChatGPT search it and cite real sources. What Chabad texts it has, and the translation setting to watch.
Shiur & Curriculum Preparation How shluchim use AI to turn a sicha, maamar or sugya into a class, handout, slides or short video in 2026: bring the real text, ask for the pieces by name, and check every source.
Shluchim Exchange and the Torah MCP Merkos 302's AI platform for shluchim: a library of Chabad-tuned agents and prompts, and since June 2026 the Torah MCP that connects Claude or ChatGPT to Torah sources and shluchim tools. How to get in, what it costs, and the 2026 connection problems.
Shluchos Use Cases What shluchos in the AI for Shlichus (Shluchos) group actually did with AI in 2026: a candle-lighting meditation from a sicha, Likkutei Sichos poems, flyers and magnets, ChabadOne forms and emails, bulk personal messages, and the privacy settings to change first.
SinaiGPT An early Torah custom GPT in ChatGPT, shared in the group's first week in July 2025. Still online, but it answers from the model's memory, so treat it as history rather than a source tool.
Sofer.ai Transcription built for Torah content in English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Aramaic; still the group's pick for shiurim that mix languages.
Sora (OpenAI) OpenAI's video app, shut down on April 26, 2026 (the API followed on September 24). What the group made with it and where members went next.
Suno AI song generation from lyrics, a style, or your own sung tune. Free to try; downloading a song now needs the Pro plan.
The 'Looks Too AI' Debate Why people spot an AI flyer instantly, the 7 AI Tells plus the newer ones members found in 2026, and the fixes that actually help.
The Builders Group and Its Coding Tools AIFS Builders, the AI for Shlichus subgroup where shluchim who build apps, sites and agents compare work, and the coding tools they use, with October 2026 prices.
The Designer Prompt The community's Flyer Designer system prompts, in full: the 7 AI Tells version, the stricter 10-rule version, and a Chabad-practice add-on.
The Karpathy LLM Wiki Pattern The pattern this wiki is built on: an AI keeps a growing set of linked Markdown pages instead of re-reading raw sources every time. Plus how agents remember things in 2026 (memory files, Karpathy wikis, MemPalace) and what each costs.
The Megillah App Sprint, Purim 2026 How shluchim in the AI for Shlichus group shaped a synchronized Megillah app in about ten days before Purim 2026, and the lessons from that sprint and from an Esther reader that broke on Purim day.
The Model Leapfrog A dated, checked timeline of the 2025-2026 model releases from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and others, what each meant for shluchim, and how the group's 'which model for what' advice changed.
The Torah Accuracy Debate How the group's argument over AI and Torah unfolded from mid-2025 to October 2026: from fake Rebbe answers, to pasting in the text, to connectors and the launch of Chabad.AI.
Transcription Which tool turns a shiur, a meeting or a WhatsApp voice note into text, the Sofer.ai vs Whisper debate, and voice notes in and out of AI agents.
TurboScribe & Whisper The English-side transcription stack: OpenAI's open-source Whisper model, the apps built on it, and TurboScribe for bulk files.
Vibe Coding Building software by describing it to an AI: the group's standing rules (no logins, databases of people or payments unless a real developer reviews it), the tools in October 2026, and how to let someone edit a site Claude built.
Video Creation Reels from event footage, clips from shiurim, and AI-generated video: what shluchim use in late 2026, now that agents can do the cutting.
Video Editing Tools The editors, clip makers, caption tools and avatar apps shluchim use, with prices checked October 2026.
WhatsApp Automation Sending to your community without getting banned, the official Business routes and their 2026 rules, why self-hosted agents on WhatsApp keep disconnecting, and the safe uses (voice notes, chat exports).
Wispr Flow Dictation that types formatted text into any app on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. Still the group's favorite, but the free plan is now capped.
Zmanim and Hebrew Dates Chatbots get Hebrew dates and zmanim wrong; the tools members use instead (Chabad.org, Hebcal and its MCP, zman.ms5.uk, member-built Shabbos-times sites) and the checks to run before any time goes out.

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