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Permissively licensed single-maintainer utilities distributed via GitHub and npm.
Token Meter reads the trace files Claude Code, Codex and Cursor already leave on a developer's disk and prices them against published model rates. The budget alert it fires goes to whoever ran the session.
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Lauren Tan's MIT-licensed plugin routes a described task into one of 23 playbooks, but the part that decides whether any of it transfers is the per-project skill that drives the real product and recognises failure.
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A batched track call with no event name is accepted and then dropped before any destination sees it, according to an open source linter's Segment rule pack. The response code will not tell you.
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RDA, an open-source auditor for LeRobot-format datasets, found median idle ratios above 65 percent in ten of twelve datasets. Readable is not the same as usable.
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Block open-sourced the desktop app its own teams use to drive agents. The design claim underneath it is that active context should be inspectable, not archaeology in a prompt log.
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Allure-Katalon Bridge fills a gap Katalon never shipped, installing by copying eight files into a project. The interesting part is stable history IDs, not the installer.
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