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It is for people who already write software with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or a similar assistant. It does not replace the assistant: it runs inside one, and the README says it cannot even replace Claude Code's own plugin command. You need Node.js 18 or newer, Git and the assistant, then setup commands in a terminal. Optional extras need keys from other services.","easeRationale":"Same work on Windows, macOS and Linux and there is no installer program: you first install Node.js 18 or newer, Git and an AI coding assistant, then run the guided setup in a terminal (`npx ecc-universal@2.2.3 setup`) and pick a scope and a hook profile. The 19 releases carry no platform files, and the README warns that stacking two install paths in one assistant duplicates skills, hooks and settings.","costNote":"ECC itself is free (MIT). It only works inside an AI coding assistant, which normally needs a paid plan or paid API use. 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Instead of adding a server and hundreds of extra tools, it tells the assistant which ordinary command to use for each kind of file (Mac and Linux binaries, Electron apps, Android APKs, Go and .NET programs, WASM, SQLite, network captures) and warns it about common traps. The assistant then runs those commands itself. You install it with one npx command, and you supply the inspection tools and a paid AI assistant.","easeRationale":"On macOS, the system the author tested on, it is a C: `npx skills add aicodeking/leanrea` needs Node and a terminal, and the skill only pays off once the command-line inspection tools it routes to are present. Linux is the same grade for the Linux-side tools, but the author's examples lean on macOS commands such as otool and dyld_info. Windows is not covered: the manual install and the commands assume a Unix shell.","costNote":"The skill is free (MIT), but it only does anything inside a paid AI coding assistant. 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You describe a change in plain words and it reads your project files, edits them and can run commands. A second, read-only \"plan\" mode only looks and asks before running commands, and a \"general\" helper handles long searches. It runs in a terminal, and the desktop app, marked beta, has ready installers for Windows, Mac and Linux. You still need an account or key for an AI model service, which may charge for use.","easeRationale":"Release v2.2.5 carries ready desktop installers for all three systems (`opencode-desktop-win-x64.exe` at 252 MB, `opencode-desktop-mac-arm64.dmg`, and .deb/.rpm/.AppImage for Linux), all marked beta; after installing you still have to connect an AI model account or key. The terminal version is a separate download or one install command.","costNote":"The program is free (MIT license). 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The last Windows installers (AtomSetup-x64.exe for 64-bit) are still in the releases, along with a Mac zip and Linux packages, and the README lists Git as a prerequisite.","easeRationale":"Windows is the easiest: a ready installer (AtomSetup-x64.exe, 198 MB) in the last release, with Git listed as a prerequisite to install first; on Mac you unzip atom-mac.zip and run the app. Linux is harder: the README asks you to set up your package manager or install a list of system libraries with apt and then extract an archive by hand.","costNote":"Free (MIT).","notVerified":["Whether installing add-on packages from inside Atom still works now that the project's online services were retired.","Whether the old installers still run correctly on current Windows 11 versions.","Whether the built-in usage and error reporting still tries to send data anywhere.","Exposure to security problems fixed in newer Electron versions when opening files or packages from others."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOH3JoLw","slug":"automatic1111__stable-diffusion-webui","name":"Stable Diffusion web UI","owner":"AUTOMATIC1111","fullName":"AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"D","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"known_vulnerabilities","severity":"attention","evidence":"Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): gradio: GHSA-26jh-r8g2-6fpr, GHSA-279j-x4gx-hfrh, GHSA-34rf-p3r3-58x2; protobuf: GHSA-7gcm-g887-7qv7, GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf, GHSA-8qvm-5x2c-j2w7; transformers: GHSA-29pf-2h5f-8g72, GHSA-37mw-44qp-f5jm, GHSA-37q5-v5qm-c9v8; setuptools: GHSA-5rjg-fvgr-3xxf, GHSA-cx63-2mw6-8hw5, GHSA-h35f-9h28-mq5c; gitpython: GHSA-239g-whfq-7xj9, GHSA-23mf-xhv8-69c2, GHSA-284h-m62q-gf8w; pillow: GHSA-22hg-r758-rrw9, GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c, GHSA-254f-3936-288h; accelerate: GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79, PYSEC-2026-3804; diskcache: GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v, PYSEC-2026-2447; fastapi: PYSEC-2024-38; gradio: GHSA-26jh-r8g2-6fpr, GHSA-279j-x4gx-hfrh, GHSA-34rf-p3r3-58x2; protobuf: GHSA-7gcm-g887-7qv7, GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf, GHSA-8qvm-5x2c-j2w7; pytorch_lightning: GHSA-4cv3-v7pv-rfhf, GHSA-75m9-98v2-hjpm, GHSA-98fp-7v67-4v3q; transformers: GHSA-29pf-2h5f-8g72, GHSA-37mw-44qp-f5jm, GHSA-37q5-v5qm-c9v8","source":"check"},{"code":"inactive_development","severity":"attention","evidence":"Last commit 2024-07-27 (824 days before this check) and last release v1.10.1 on 2025-02-09, with 2510 open issues; the pinned dependencies are not being updated (see known_vulnerabilities).","source":"ai"},{"code":"old_python_version_required","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md, \"Automatic Installation on Windows\": \"Install Python 3.10.6 (Newer version of Python does not support torch), checking \\\"Add Python to PATH\\\"\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"third_party_extensions_run_code","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"Custom scripts with many extensions from community\" and \"Running arbitrary python code from UI (must run with `--allow-code` to enable)\". Extensions are code from other authors that runs on your PC.","source":"ai"},{"code":"anime_tagging_for_adult_boorus","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"DeepDanbooru integration, creates danbooru style tags for anime prompts\". The models and tag sets people use with it come from outside this repository and can include adult material; the repository itself ships no models.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python","gpu_any","other"],"buildTools":["python","node","gpu_any"],"disk":{"minMB":1050,"maxMB":4950,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"AGPL-3.0","category":"copyleft","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["image"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"midjourney","name":"Midjourney","confirmed":true},{"slug":"adobe-firefly","name":"Firefly","confirmed":true},{"slug":"photoshop","name":"Photoshop","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":165207,"downloads":5913563,"downloadsWeek":14580,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":53,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":165154},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":165161},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":165170},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":165179},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":165185},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":165207}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.606Z","commitSha":"82a973c04367123ae98bd9abdf80d9eda9b910e2","verifiedAt":"2026-10-30T01:43:00.785Z","lastCommitAt":"2024-07-27T12:49:39Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Create and edit images from text descriptions on your own computer, with Stable Diffusion models in a browser page.","summary":"A local web page for Stable Diffusion: you type a description and it makes images, repaints parts of a picture (inpainting and outpainting), enlarges photos and repairs faces, with many community extensions. It is for hobbyists and artists who want AI images without a subscription. Everything runs on your own PC and a capable graphics card helps a lot (NVIDIA recommended; AMD, Intel and Apple chips have separate guides). On Windows you install Python 3.10.6 and git, then run webui-user.bat. Models take several GB of disk.","easeRationale":"Easiest on Windows: install Python 3.10.6 and git, then double-click webui-user.bat (or unzip the older NVIDIA-only sd.webui.zip and run update.bat and run.bat). Linux is similar but you first install system packages with apt, dnf, zypper or pacman. On a Mac the README sends you to a separate Apple Silicon guide with more terminal steps, and there is no ready installer anywhere.","notVerified":["Whether it still installs cleanly today, since development stopped in 2024 and the dependencies are pinned to old versions.","Real disk use after downloading torch and image models (the checks estimate 1 to 5 GB before extra models).","Speed and memory use on your graphics card; the README cites 4 GB cards and reports of 2 GB working.","What code the installer and the community extensions download at run time.","Which models you end up using, since the repository ships none and each has its own licence."]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnk0NTA1NTY5Mw==","slug":"balena-io__etcher","name":"balenaEtcher","owner":"balena-io","fullName":"balena-io/etcher","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A","mac":"A","linux":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"known_vulnerabilities","severity":"attention","evidence":"Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): electron-updater: GHSA-9jxc-qjr9-vjxq; immutable: GHSA-v56q-mh7h-f735, GHSA-wf6x-7x77-mvgw, GHSA-xvcm-6775-5m9r; lodash: GHSA-f23m-r3pf-42rh, GHSA-r5fr-rjxr-66jc, GHSA-xxjr-mmjv-4gpg; uuid: GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq","source":"check"},{"code":"crash_reports_to_sentry","severity":"info","evidence":"package.json lists \"@sentry/electron\": \"^4.24.0\" among the runtime dependencies, so the app is built to send crash and error reports to a Sentry service run by the publisher.","source":"ai"},{"code":"erases_the_chosen_drive_and_needs_admin_rights","severity":"info","evidence":"Writing an image replaces everything on the selected card or stick. The app needs raw access to drives: package.json depends on @ronomon/direct-io, drivelist and mountutils, requires a polkit authentication agent on Debian systems, and ships winusb-driver-generator on Windows. The project says it blocks your internal hard drives from the list.","source":"ai"},{"code":"updates_itself","severity":"info","evidence":"package.json depends on electron-updater 6.1.8, so the installed app can download and apply its own updates. The deterministic checks list a known vulnerability advisory for that exact pinned version.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":262,"maxMB":785,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["system","hardware"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"wintousb","name":"WinToUSB","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":34628,"downloads":318330628,"downloadsWeek":365339,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":30,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":34598},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":34605},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":34613},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":34616},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":34626},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":34628}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.608Z","commitSha":"dbd6aaed37c4e844f7aed978db01d9f38680eff8","verifiedAt":"2026-10-28T01:41:08.449Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-22T19:23:36Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Writes an operating system image onto a USB stick or SD card, and checks every byte afterwards.","summary":"balenaEtcher copies a downloaded operating system image (a .iso or .img file, such as Raspberry Pi OS or a Linux install disc) onto a USB stick or SD card. You pick the file, pick the drive and press Flash; it hides your internal disks from the list and verifies the written data afterwards. It can also write directly to Raspberry Pi boards that support USB device boot mode. It is for anyone, with ready installers for Windows 10 and later, macOS 10.13 and later and most 64-bit Linux distributions.","easeRationale":"Every release carries a ready installer for each system: balenaEtcher-2.1.9.Setup.exe (262 MB) for Windows, .dmg files for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, and .deb, .rpm and zip builds for Linux, plus winget, Chocolatey and AUR packages. You open it and use the window; nothing else has to be installed.","costNote":"Free and open source (Apache-2.0). It is made by Balena Ltd, which sells separate paid cloud products; you do not need an account for Etcher.","notVerified":["Whether a given image file and a given card or card reader really work together","What the crash reports contain, for example file names or drive models, and whether they can be turned off","How long a write takes, which depends on the card and the USB port","Whether the Raspberry Pi USB device boot flashing works on your board","How much space the installed app takes after unpacking (the installers are 118-271 MB)"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkyMTM5MTY4OTY=","slug":"blender__blender","name":"Blender","owner":"blender","fullName":"blender/blender","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A"},"risk":"low","signals":[],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":349,"maxMB":1048,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"GPL-3.0-or-later","category":"copyleft","detectedFrom":"winget"},"categories":["design_cad","video"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"autodesk-maya","name":"Maya","confirmed":true},{"slug":"autodesk-3ds-max","name":"3ds Max","confirmed":true},{"slug":"cinema-4d","name":"Cinema 4D","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":21485,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":6,"growth":225,"growthDays":6,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","stars":21260},{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":21305},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":21349},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":21394},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":21420},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":21447},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":21485}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T23:32:48.676Z","commitSha":"01c07a6f4aa9f8338c89e792583ebbf0a7138cb3","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:15:07.907Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T00:44:48Z","isMirror":true,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"founder","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Model, animate and render 3D scenes and characters, and edit video, in one free desktop program.","summary":"Blender is a free 3D creation program. You can model objects, build and animate characters, run physics simulations, render images and films, track camera motion and edit video. It is used by hobbyists, students and professional studios. This GitHub page is a mirror of the source code with no downloads. The official Windows installer (Windows Package Manager ID BlenderFoundation.Blender) is a 349 MB file, and Radar estimates the program needs about 349 MB to 1 GB of disk space.","easeRationale":"There is an official 349 MB Windows installer (winget BlenderFoundation.Blender) that you download and open; the Python found by the automatic check is only for the developers' code-formatting setup in pyproject.toml, so you do not install it yourself.","costNote":"Licensed under the GNU GPL according to the COPYING and README files.","notVerified":["Exact disk space after installing: Radar's range of 349 MB to about 1 GB is estimated from the installer size, not measured on a real install","The macOS and Linux versions offered on blender.org, since Radar only looked at the Windows installer","How smoothly heavy scenes and rendering run on your graphics card","What add-ons you install later download or run on your computer"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOTs_xqg","slug":"boykopovar__anyps5","name":"AnyPS5","owner":"boykopovar","fullName":"boykopovar/AnyPS5","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"unusual_star_rate","severity":"attention","evidence":"48546 stars in 84 days (~578 per day)","source":"check"},{"code":"console_game_dump_required","severity":"attention","evidence":"The tool only works on PS5 game executables (description: \"Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows\"), which it does not supply; the README says it does not \"require copyrighted software, firmware, cryptographic keys\" and that \"Users are responsible for ensuring that any binaries used with this project are obtained and used in accordance with applicable laws\". A game's program can normally only be copied off a PS5 with a modified console, which many countries restrict by law, and the README leaves it to the user to make sure the files are obtained legally.","source":"ai"},{"code":"games_may_stop_abruptly","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Unsupported or unexpected states strictly throw `std::runtime_error`. `what()` is printed to stderr and the process terminates.\" The library count covers only \"the functions known to the project so far\".","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","linux","web"],"tools":["gpu_any"],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":5,"maxMB":16,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"GPL-2.0","category":"copyleft","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["games","system"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":50145,"downloads":185717,"downloadsWeek":10294,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":1482,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":49027},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":49312},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":49573},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":49853},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":50145}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T02:46:41.232Z","commitSha":"349055c1cd5742185a57eb71b3b2e4ab9b6d1cad","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T01:20:03.942Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T01:10:05Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"founder","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Converts PlayStation 5 game programs so they run directly on a Windows or Linux PC, without an emulator.","summary":"AnyPS5 is an early-stage tool that converts a PS5 game's executable into a native Windows or Linux program and supplies its own versions of the PS5 system libraries, so the game runs without an emulator. Graphics shaders are translated for Vulkan, and game controllers, keyboard and mouse are supported. You must supply the PS5 game files yourself; the project includes none. Release downloads include a relinker .exe and library packs for Windows and Linux, and there is a web converter. Which games work is tracked per title in GitHub discussions.","easeRationale":"Windows binaries (relinker .exe and a library pack) are on GitHub Releases, but you need the PS5 game files, must run the conversion and set up the libraries following the usage guide, and per-game support is only reported in discussions.","notVerified":["Which PS5 games actually start and are playable after conversion.","What the converted program does on the PC, since it runs the game's own code natively.","Whether the web converter really keeps files on your device as the README says.","Graphics card and Vulkan driver requirements for converted games.","The legal status of dumping and converting PS5 games in the user's country."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDONIn9tw","slug":"browser-use__browser-use","name":"Browser Use","owner":"browser-use","fullName":"browser-use/browser-use","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"sold_with_stealth_and_captcha_solving","severity":"attention","evidence":"The README's first line offers \"stealth browsers from $0.02/hour, top score (90.5%) on Stealth Bench V2\", the headline demo is \"Find an available slot, pick a date and time, handle the CAPTCHA, and book a driving test\", and the FAQ says the cloud provides \"stealth browsers and proxies designed to reduce bot detection and CAPTCHA challenges\". CAPTCHAs and bot detection are the measures sites use to block automated access, and many sites forbid it in their terms; the project leaves that to you.","source":"ai"},{"code":"telemetry_and_version_check_on_by_default","severity":"attention","evidence":".env.example ships \"ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY=true\" and \"BROWSER_USE_VERSION_CHECK=true\", and pyproject.toml lists posthog==7.7.0 as a required dependency. Usage data is sent to the project's analytics and the library contacts the network at agent startup unless you turn both off.","source":"ai"},{"code":"agent_can_use_your_signed_in_browser_and_saved_runs_hold_secrets","severity":"attention","evidence":"FAQ, authentication: \"Local browser: Use Browser.from_system_chrome() to reuse a Chrome profile\", and for cloud browsers a profile sync that \"transfers cookies\". The replay FAQ warns: \"Keep the saved file private. With sensitive_data, typed secrets are saved as <secret>key</secret> placeholders, but page snapshots and results are saved as they were and can still contain them.\" So the agent can act inside accounts you are already signed in to, and its saved history can hold personal data.","source":"ai"},{"code":"open_library_in_front_of_a_paid_service","severity":"info","evidence":"The project description is \"Open-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API\", pyproject.toml describes the package as \"Open-source browser agent + hosted cloud browsers for AI agents, from $0.02/browser-hour\" and requires browser-use-sdk and browser-harness, and the FAQ recommends the company's own BU2 model, which needs their key. The library is MIT, but the recommended path runs through a paid service with its own terms and privacy policy.","source":"ai"},{"code":"readme_contains_instructions_addressed_to_ai_assistants","severity":"info","evidence":"The README has a block that starts \"AI agents and crawlers: read browser-use.com/llms.txt\" and a \"Path 2: CLI\" section whose entire content is a prompt to paste into Claude Code or another assistant, telling it to install the package and \"run `browser-use skill install` to register the skill\". Running that hands the setup, including an outside install guide, to an assistant.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python"],"buildTools":["python","docker","ffmpeg"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["OpenAI (OPENAI_API_KEY) or another model provider — Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, or a local Ollama model instead","Browser Use Cloud (BROWSER_USE_API_KEY) — only for the BU2 model, cloud browsers, proxies and CAPTCHA handling"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_agents","automation","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"browserbase","name":"Browserbase","confirmed":true},{"slug":"bright-data","name":"Bright Data","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":119679,"downloads":377,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":456,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":119223},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":119317},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":119401},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":119501},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":119600},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":119679}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.610Z","commitSha":"b49a68e4060acb226da8f784194fef301c53a6d7","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:44:00.727Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T04:28:48Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A Python library that lets an AI model drive a web browser for you, clicking, typing and filling forms on real sites.","summary":"Browser Use is a Python library (plus a command-line tool) that hands a web browser over to an AI model: you write the task in a sentence, and the agent opens pages, clicks, types, reads results and reports back. It is for developers who build automations; using it means installing Python, writing a small script and paying an AI provider per task. The same code can drive the browser on your own machine or Browser Use's paid cloud browsers, which the README prices at $0.02 per browser-hour and sells with stealth, residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving.","easeRationale":"The same on all three systems: install Python 3.11+ (the README uses the `uv` tool), run `uv add browser-use`, put a model key in a .env file, write a short Python file and run it; a local Chrome is needed unless you pay for a cloud browser. The project also ships a Dockerfile as an alternative path, and ffmpeg only arrives with the optional `video` extra. On Windows the extra Claude \"Bash\" integration needs WSL, which the README states.","costNote":"The library is free and MIT-licensed, but every task calls a paid AI model (the README's own example uses an OpenAI key, and the recommended BU2 model needs a Browser Use key). Cloud browsers are $0.02 per browser-hour plus traffic. A local model through Ollama is possible with no per-use cost.","notVerified":["How much a real task costs in model calls, which depends on the model and the number of steps","Whether the agent actually finishes a given task on a given site, and how often it gets stuck","Whether the stealth and CAPTCHA features work on the sites you care about, which the README itself does not guarantee","What the telemetry contains and what Browser Use keeps from cloud runs","Disk use, estimated at 100 to 300 MB by a rule of thumb, before Chrome and model downloads","Whether it behaves the same on Windows, where some parts need WSL"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOUeBQeg","slug":"browser-use__jev-ultrafast","name":"Jev Ultrafast","owner":"browser-use","fullName":"browser-use/jev-ultrafast","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"23695 stars in 40 days","source":"check"},{"code":"agent_uses_your_real_chrome_profile","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md: \"Allow remote debugging in Chrome when prompted.\" and \"Owned tabs share the existing Chrome profile.\" The agent works inside your normal browser, where you may be signed in to sites.","source":"ai"},{"code":"page_text_sent_to_external_models","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: each step sends the page's element table in \"one TypeSafe request\", and the agent will \"Send visible text\" of the page; typed text comes from a separate model at TEXT_MODEL_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (.env.example).","source":"ai"},{"code":"early_mvp_short_activity","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"Shadow roots, frames, canvas, uploads, pop-up tabs, nested scrolling, and arbitrary keyboard widgets remain outside this MVP.\" No GitHub releases; the repository was created on 2026-09-16 and the last commit was on 2026-09-18.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python","other"],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["TypeSafe API (Jev model), TYPESAFE_API_KEY","OpenAI-compatible text model, OpenRouter in the example (TEXT_MODEL_API_KEY)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_agents","automation","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"browserbase","name":"Browserbase","confirmed":true},{"slug":"manus","name":"Manus","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":23991,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":292,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":23699},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":23762},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":23830},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":23892},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":23946},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":23991}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.612Z","commitSha":"1231850a0bf1a0c0341fe408ef1668dbbfdfac46","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:15:07.907Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T17:35:44Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"founder","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A fast AI agent that operates your Chrome browser to complete a goal you describe, such as searching for flights.","summary":"Jev Ultrafast is a small demo and Python library from Browser Use. You give it a goal in plain words, and it clicks, types and scrolls in your Chrome browser to reach it, choosing each step with TypeSafe's Jev model and using a small text model only when it has to type. It is for developers testing browser automation. You need Python, the uv tool, Chrome with remote debugging allowed, and two paid API keys (TypeSafe and an OpenRouter-style text model). The README calls it an MVP with known limits.","easeRationale":"There is no installer: you clone the code, install Python 3.12+ and uv, add two API keys to a .env file, run it from a terminal and allow remote debugging in Chrome.","costNote":"The code is free (MIT). 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Each entry, called a recipe, has a name and the lines to run, so instead of remembering a long command you type `just test` or `just build`. Recipes take arguments, can depend on each other, can run in parallel and can even be written in Python or another language. It is one 2 MB file for Windows, macOS and Linux, is in nearly every package manager, and the author describes it as simpler than `make`.","easeRationale":"One ready 2 MB file on all three systems, by package manager (`winget install --id Casey.Just --exact`, `brew install just`, `apt install just`) or straight from the releases page. It stays at C because there is no window: you write a `justfile` by hand and run everything from the terminal. On Windows there is an extra catch: the README says recipes need an `sh` from Git for Windows, GitHub Desktop or Cygwin, unless you add `set shell := [\"powershell.exe\", \"-c\"]`.","costNote":"Free. The licence is CC0-1.0, a public-domain dedication, so the author gives up copyright claims; the text notes trademark and patent rights are not waived.","notVerified":["Whether your Windows setup has an `sh` on the PATH, which the README requires unless you change the shell setting","Which version your package manager installs, which can lag behind 1.59.0","What a `justfile` written by somebody else actually does when you run it","Whether recipes written for Unix shells behave the same under PowerShell, which the README warns about for positional arguments"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOSEljpA","slug":"cathrynlavery__diagram-design","name":"Diagram Design","owner":"cathrynlavery","fullName":"cathrynlavery/diagram-design","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"reads_your_website_for_branding","severity":"info","evidence":"README onboarding flow: \"onboard diagram-design to https://yoursite.com\" → \"fetches the homepage → extracts the dominant palette + font stack\". 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It only works inside an AI assistant, which usually needs a paid plan or paid API use, and each diagram spends some of that allowance.","notVerified":["How good the diagrams are with your own assistant and model, since the author says output depends on both","Whether the brand onboarding really picks the right colours and fonts from a given website","What the skill and the generated files send over the network beyond the Google Fonts request","Whether every listed host (Cursor, Copilot, Qoder, Pi, Kiro and the rest) installs it as described, especially on Windows","How much of your AI plan a diagram consumes"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVWlZiw","slug":"ccch1mneyyy__dsh-go","name":"dsh-go","owner":"ccch1mneyyy","fullName":"ccch1mneyyy/dsh-Go","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"installed_from_an_apk_file_outside_an_app_store","severity":"attention","evidence":"The README says the Android build targets APK sideloading and is not configured for a Google Play release (\"当前 Android 构建以 APK 侧载为目标，不是 Google Play 发布配置\"), so you have to allow installs from an unknown source and there is no store review or automatic update. 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Everything in it is a plugin, so other people can add capabilities. You install Node.js 24.9 or newer and run one command, which starts a local web interface at 127.0.0.1:3080 and opens your browser. It is aimed at developers: the project calls itself a developer preview, warns in capitals that there will be compatibility-breaking changes, and asks you to read its safety notice before running it.","easeRationale":"Same on all three and there is no installer: you install Node.js (package.json requires version 24.9.0 or newer, which is newer than most systems ship) and run `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web` in a terminal, which opens the interface in your browser. None of the 34 releases carries a program file, so the desktop build must be compiled from source.","costNote":"The code is free under MIT. 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Each of the 7,298 words comes with a drawing, Chinese and English meanings, two example sentences, British and American audio, and exercises; a review planner (FSRS) decides what to show you each day. You open it in a browser, no account needed, and progress stays on your device. The interface and most documentation are in Chinese. The repository is the open base version plus the word dataset; the author's website iterates separately and may have other features. Running the repository version yourself needs Node.js 20+.","easeRationale":"The web is the only place an end user runs it, and there it is an A: the author's site opens the app in any browser with no install and no account. Only people who want to host their own copy need Node.js 20+ and npm commands, and there are no desktop or mobile builds in the repository.","costNote":"App code is MIT and the dataset is CC BY 4.0. 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Smart glasses from VITURE, RayNeo, XREAL and Rokid are supported. You need Android 9 or newer with an Adreno 730 or newer chip, about 4 GB free for the runtime before any game, a sideloaded APK and, on Android 14 and newer, a developer setting switched on. No root needed.","easeRationale":"Android is the only system it runs on, and there it is a D: it needs a specific graphics chip (Adreno 730 or newer; Mali, Xclipse, PowerVR and Adreno 710 are unsupported), an APK installed by hand from GitHub, about 3 GB of runtime plus 1.1 GB for the desktop, a Steam sign-in, and on Android 14 and newer a developer option turned on. Computers are not covered at all.","costNote":"The app is free (GPL-3.0). The games are not: you play what you own on Steam, GOG, Epic, Amazon or Battle.net, and the frame-generation feature needs your own copy of the paid Lossless Scaling.","notVerified":["Whether your particular phone or handheld runs it, and how well; the README says \"Compatibility and performance vary by device; hardware validation is limited\".","What the antutu, ludashi and pubg APK variants change compared with the plain APK.","Whether using these unofficial store connections can get a Steam, Epic, GOG, Amazon or Battle.net account restricted.","Real storage use once the runtime, the desktop and a few games are installed, on top of the stated 3 GB plus 1.1 GB.","Battery drain and heat while playing, and whether a given game runs at a playable speed."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOPbFNkw","slug":"earendil-works__pi","name":"Pi","owner":"earendil-works","fullName":"earendil-works/pi","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"B"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"curl_pipe_shell","severity":"attention","evidence":"Install command pipes a remote script into a shell: curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh","source":"check"},{"code":"no_permission_system_the_agent_has_your_full_rights","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, Permissions & Containerization: \"Pi does not include a built-in permission system for restricting filesystem, process, network, or credential access. By default, it runs with the permissions of the user and process that launched it.\" It suggests you containerize or sandbox it yourself. So anything the model decides to do — change files, run shell commands, reach the network — happens with your own access, and the same goes for extensions and \"Pi packages\" shared over npm or git.","source":"ai"},{"code":"windows_install_also_pipes_a_remote_script","severity":"info","evidence":"Besides the shell install line the checks already flagged, the README's Windows command is `powershell -c \"irm https://pi.dev/install.ps1 | iex\"` — the same pattern of running a script fetched from pi.dev, which may also install Node.js. 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It is a separate manual step, but those sessions contain your prompts, code and errors.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node"],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":43,"maxMB":129,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":["An AI model provider connected with /login — the project's own library lists OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","ai_agents"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"cursor","name":"Cursor","confirmed":true},{"slug":"claude-code","name":"Claude Code","confirmed":true},{"slug":"github-copilot","name":"Copilot","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":119188,"downloads":998024,"downloadsWeek":87246,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":1153,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":118035},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":118296},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":118538},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":118808},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":119029},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":119188}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.624Z","commitSha":"2c8d1feb147f6b3d97e855da803bfe7b19f3c403","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:46:47.611Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T00:36:33Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A terminal coding assistant: an AI agent that reads and changes files in your project and runs commands for you.","summary":"Pi is a coding agent you run in a terminal inside a project folder: you describe a task and it reads files, edits them, runs commands and reports back. It also comes as a toolkit of TypeScript libraries (one API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other models, an agent loop, a terminal interface) for people building their own agents, and it can be extended with skills, themes and packages shared over npm or git. It needs Node.js 22.19+ and an AI provider subscription or API key, connected with `/login` inside the program.","easeRationale":"One install line on each system — `curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh` on macOS and Linux, `powershell -c \"irm https://pi.dev/install.ps1 | iex\"` on Windows — and the installers can also put Node.js 22.19+ in place; ready binaries (30 to 43 MB) are attached to each release as well. What keeps it off the top grade is the extra step of signing in to a paid AI provider with `/login`, and that everything afterwards is typed in a terminal.","costNote":"The program is free and MIT-licensed, but it does nothing until you connect a paid AI provider — the README says to run `/login` \"to connect a subscription or API key\". The cost then depends on the model and how much you use it.","notVerified":["How much the AI provider charges for real work, which depends on the model and task size","What the agent actually does to your files and what commands it runs, since nothing asks for permission","Whether the project's telemetry package sends anything by default, which only running it would show","Whether the installer's Node.js install clashes with a Node version you already have","Disk use after installing, estimated at 43 to 129 MB before model data","Whether extensions and packages you install from npm or git are what they claim to be"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOUpsZ_w","slug":"ebony-vinyl__dsh-our-free-model","name":"dsh-our-free-model","owner":"Ebony-Vinyl","fullName":"Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model","type":"needs_setup","status":"alert","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"C"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"54372 stars in 37 days","source":"check"},{"code":"sends_official_client_identity_to_the_free_gateway","severity":"high","evidence":"The free lane goes to pools that hand out models with no key and no charge: the README names 'OpenCode 的 Zen 网关' and 'Kilo AI 的公共网关', and says of the Kilo one '该池由上游免费提供' (the pool is provided free by the upstream). The README's own file map says what the plugin builds for each call: 'src/upstream.js 网关身份：凭据、session/request id 铸造、工具指纹' (gateway identity: credentials, session/request id minting, tool fingerprint). It also writes down what the OpenCode pool asks of a caller: '它要求每请求一枚铸造形状的会话 id、v2 客户端 User-Agent 与一组官方工具声明' (it requires a minted-shaped session id per request, a v2 client User-Agent and a set of official tool declarations). The four tool names the lane is forced to declare are called the '指纹诱饵四件套' (fingerprint decoy set of four) in the issue table, where a forwarding client that never registered them reports 'Unknown tool bash/read/grep'. These pools release the models to a caller that arrives with the client identity the service expects.","source":"ai"},{"code":"credentials_hidden_inside_the_plugin","severity":"high","evidence":"README, 'EAC channel': 'credentials and endpoints never appear in readable form in the plugin — they exist only as AES-256-GCM ciphertext, and the decryption key is derived at unlock time from three mask shards spread across two files'. The file list also ships src/vault.js, src/vault-anchor.js and src/vault-data.js, plus vendor/channel-pack/qoder-auth-wasm.wasm.","source":"ai"},{"code":"stars_required_to_unlock_a_channel","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: the EAC channel 'only allows conversations after the server side checks your GitHub authorisation (log in and star this repository)'. The deterministic check already notes 54372 stars in 37 days, and every settings page carries a Star button.","source":"ai"},{"code":"upstream_may_log_your_prompts","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, Kilo channel: 'this pool is provided free by the upstream, and the upstream states on its model cards that prompts may be recorded to improve the service — please do not send sensitive content'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"local_gateway_keys_readable_by_other_programs","severity":"attention","evidence":"README 'Known limits': in a composition without the connection service, 'any process on the machine can obtain the forwarding key and the LAN key with one request, and then consume this machine's free quota from another machine'. The LAN relay binds 0.0.0.0 by default when switched on.","source":"ai"},{"code":"modified_copy_circulating_under_the_same_name","severity":"attention","evidence":"README install warning: 'Do not install the bare-name dsh-our-free-model on npm. That package was not published by this repository... index.js and client.js are changed and it also contains src/channel-visibility.js, which this repository never had.'","source":"ai"},{"code":"self_updating_code_and_pushed_announcements","severity":"attention","evidence":"The plugin downloads and replaces its own files from a feed and hot-reloads them ('check for updates -> one-click upgrade', 'src/updater.js'), and maintainers push announcements that reach every install within one polling cycle, with 'urgent' showing a full-screen popup. The README adds that 'whoever holds the release private key can push any code'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"host_security_scanner_flagged_the_code","severity":"info","evidence":"README acceptance table: DSHEAC AIO's static scan 'records one report line for the env+URL adjacency pattern in src/upstream.js (TROJAN_EXFIL_ENV)', described as logging only. The README also notes the upstream vendor name appears only in repository documents and announcements, never in the model picker or settings text.","source":"ai"},{"code":"calls_another_companys_gateway_without_an_account","severity":"high","evidence":"README, \"亮点\": the free lane's source is \"OpenCode 的 Zen 网关\" and the Kilo channel's is \"Kilo AI 的公共网关\", reached \"无需任何账号或 Key\" (with no account or Key at all). The same README says what the plugin mints for each call to that gateway: \"src/upstream.js 网关身份：凭据、session/request id 铸造、工具指纹\", and that the gateway \"要求每请求一枚铸造形状的会话 id、v2 客户端 User-Agent 与一组官方工具声明\" (requires a minted-shaped session id per request, a v2 client User-Agent and a set of official tool declarations). Who may call a company's API, and how the client must identify itself, is normally set out in that company's terms of use; the README shows no permission from either gateway, and the project's own aggregate lane keeps the FleetRelay third-party pool disabled because it \"尚未获分发授权\" (has not yet obtained distribution authorisation).","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac"],"tools":["node","other"],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":25,"maxMB":75,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":["Optional: your own key for one of 76 providers (OpenRouter, Groq, Gemini, DeepSeek and others)"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","chat_ai","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"openrouter","name":"OpenRouter","confirmed":true},{"slug":"chatgpt-plus","name":"ChatGPT Plus","confirmed":true},{"slug":"claude-code","name":"Claude Code","confirmed":false}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":54362,"downloads":55859,"downloadsWeek":38106,"downloadsDays":6,"growth":11276,"growthDays":6,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","stars":43086},{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":44851},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":46798},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":48915},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":50917},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":52806},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":54362}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T23:18:50.373Z","commitSha":"b1eba3caa7d6e9f9ff7e9f591daa3782c9b31018","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:58:15.882Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T13:24:11Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A plugin for the dsh AI app that offers frontier models with no account, no API key and no usage cap.","summary":"Our Free Model is a plugin for dsh (DeepSeek Harness) that adds a list of frontier models, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, with no login, sign-up or API key. It reaches them through other companies' public gateways (OpenCode's inference endpoint and Kilo AI), shows a usage dashboard, and opens an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible port on your computer so tools such as Claude Code can use the same models. You can also add your own keys for 76 providers. A Windows desktop package and a community macOS build exist.","easeRationale":"Windows is a B: the project publishes a desktop package and the README says it 'bundles a Node runtime and the standalone service, usable right after installing, with no login and no API key', though you still pick channels in its settings. macOS is a C, because the .dmg is a community build with no Apple signature and the README's own instructions include Terminal steps such as 'sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine' to open it. Installing it as a dsh plugin instead needs the dsh host and commands like 'dsh plugin --profile web add /path'.","costNote":"No payment and no API key. The README says the EAC channel only answers after the server checks that you logged in with GitHub and starred this repository.","notVerified":["Whether the free gateways keep working, or block this client at any time","What the upstream services keep of the prompts you send","What the encrypted credentials inside the plugin are and who they belong to","Whether the Windows and macOS packages were built from the source in this repository","The real speed and the point at which requests start coming back as 429"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVQMnMg","slug":"ely-open-source__elyoffice","name":"Ely Office","owner":"ELY-Open-Source","fullName":"ELY-Open-Source/ElyOffice","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_owner_account","severity":"attention","evidence":"Owner account created 7 days ago","source":"check"},{"code":"very_new_project","severity":"info","evidence":"Repository created 2026-10-19 and already at version 0.1.12 with 11 releases; the README lists ElyAgent as a 'Second release'. The owner account is also new (see the checks).","source":"ai"},{"code":"bundles_large_third_party_engines","severity":"info","evidence":"README table: ElyDoc/ElyTable/ElyShow use LibreOfficeKit, ElyPDF uses MuPDF and Tesseract, ElyTree uses Git. The build scripts compile 'patched LibreOffice 26.2.6.3' and 'patched MuPDF 1.28.5', which is why the installers run from 11 MB to 508 MB. Third-party licences are listed in docs/licenses.md rather than the MIT LICENSE file.","source":"ai"},{"code":"handles_mail_credentials","severity":"info","evidence":"README: 'ElyMail signs in to Microsoft with OAuth, and to Gmail and iCloud with an app password.' Cargo.toml includes aes-gcm, rusqlite and rustls, so mail accounts and messages are stored locally.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["rust"],"disk":{"minMB":508,"maxMB":1523,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["office","productivity","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"word","name":"Word","confirmed":true},{"slug":"excel","name":"Excel","confirmed":true},{"slug":"powerpoint","name":"PowerPoint","confirmed":true},{"slug":"acrobat","name":"Acrobat","confirmed":true},{"slug":"microsoft-outlook","name":"Outlook","confirmed":true},{"slug":"gitkraken","name":"GitKraken","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":1146,"downloads":17627,"downloadsWeek":4566,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":79,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":1067},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":1087},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":1101},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":1124},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":1146}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:27.880Z","commitSha":"64b8dcdc879ae541d71326a331ac458412beb528","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:23:32.835Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T02:55:39Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A family of offline desktop apps for documents, spreadsheets, slides, PDFs, email, Markdown and Git.","summary":"Ely Office is a set of desktop programs that open and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, read and edit PDFs with text recognition and signatures, read email over IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, write Markdown and work with Git. Your files stay in your own folders and there is no account or cloud service. There are ready installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, and you can install the whole suite or just one app. The suite installer for Windows is about 508 MB.","easeRationale":"Every release ships a Windows setup .exe for each app (and one 508 MB installer for the whole suite), so you download and run it.","costNote":"MIT licence, no paid tier mentioned.","notVerified":["How faithfully DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files keep their formatting compared with Microsoft Office","Whether the apps are stable in daily use, given the 0.1.x version numbers","How ElyMail stores your email password or token on disk","Real disk use after installing, since the Windows suite installer alone is about 508 MB","Whether the Windows installer is signed (the README only says macOS builds are signed and notarized)"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVUt7kg","slug":"enesozturk__dimensional-drawing","name":"Dimensional Drawing","owner":"enesozturk","fullName":"enesozturk/dimensional-drawing","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"very_new_project","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-23 and last pushed on 2026-10-24, with no tagged releases, so there is little history behind it yet.","source":"ai"},{"code":"results_depend_on_the_ai_model","severity":"info","evidence":"The skills are Markdown instruction files (skills/dimensional-drawing/SKILL.md and skills/dimensional-drawing-motion/SKILL.md); the drawing itself is produced by the AI, so what you get varies by model and prompt.","source":"ai"},{"code":"alternative_render_path_untested","severity":"info","evidence":"README note: \"Optimized for Claude Motion. 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You point it at a button, card or dialog in your code, a screenshot or a web page, and it produces a single grey-and-white sheet in Apple's dimensional-drawing style: plan view, exploded layers, close-ups and tables of spacings, gaps and corner radii. A second skill turns a finished sheet into a short film of the drawing being drawn, either inside Claude or, without Claude, with Node.js plus ffmpeg. MIT licensed.","easeRationale":"You need an AI agent already working, then either copy the skill folders into ~/.claude/skills from a terminal (Git Bash on Windows) or upload a zip on claude.ai; the optional video export needs Node.js and ffmpeg installed as well.","costNote":"The skill files are free. They only do something inside an AI agent such as Claude Code or claude.ai, which usually costs a subscription or per-use fees.","notVerified":["Whether the measurements in the drawing match your real component, since the AI reads the code or a picture rather than measuring a running app.","Whether the install steps and the headless video renderer work on Windows, since the README only shows shell commands.","How much agent usage one drawing or one animation costs."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVPZUMA","slug":"ethanarbuckle__fairplay-decrypt","name":"fairplay-decrypt","owner":"EthanArbuckle","fullName":"EthanArbuckle/fairplay-decrypt","type":"dev_tool","status":"alert","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"removes_apple_copy_protection","severity":"high","evidence":"This is the whole purpose of the project. Description: \"Offline FairPlay App Store IPA decryption with independent key derivation\". README: \"The decryptor uses each IPA's SINF and SUPF records to derive page keys, decrypt its encrypted arm64 pages, and clear `cryptid`.\" FairPlay is Apple's copy protection for App Store apps. Apple's terms forbid getting around it, and many countries have laws that restrict getting around copy protection, even for apps you paid for.","source":"ai"},{"code":"requires_jailbroken_device","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"[Credential retrieval](credential-retrieval/README.md) gets it from a supported jailbroken device and writes `credential.bin` to the chosen output directory.\" Jailbreaking turns off parts of the iPhone's own protection and can void the warranty.","source":"ai"},{"code":"handles_apple_account_credential","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"Decrypt FairPlay-encrypted apps using a 16-byte credential for the account that owns each IPA\", saved as the file credential.bin. That file is tied to your Apple account, so anyone who copies it can decrypt apps bought with your account.","source":"ai"},{"code":"very_new_and_unfinished_packaging","severity":"attention","evidence":"Created on 2026-10-19 with the last push on 2026-10-30, and 0 GitHub releases. 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It is for people who study how iOS apps are built. You need macOS or Linux with Python 3.9+, and a 16-byte credential from the Apple account that owns the IPA; the included code pulls that credential from a jailbroken device, and building it on macOS needs Xcode and ldid. Removing copy protection is restricted or illegal in several countries.","easeRationale":"macOS and Linux are both D: the README asks you to install Python 3.9+, create a virtual environment, install the cryptography package and then run decrypt.py in the terminal, and there are no releases to download (GitHub releases: 0). Before any of that you need the 16-byte credential, which the credential-retrieval part takes from a supported jailbroken device, and on macOS building that part needs Xcode and ldid.","costNote":"Free and open source: the repository has a LICENSE file with the GNU GPL v3 text and GitHub reports the licence as GPL-3.0. 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You draw boxes, arrows, circles and free-hand lines that come out looking hand-drawn, add images and reusable shape libraries, and export to PNG, SVG or an open .excalidraw file. The public site excalidraw.com needs no account or install, saves your drawing in the browser and works offline; it also offers real-time collaboration and share links that the project says are end-to-end encrypted. Developers can embed the same editor in their own app as an npm package.","easeRationale":"On the web it is an A: excalidraw.com opens in any browser with nothing to install and no account, and it keeps working offline. None of the 15 releases carries a desktop installer, and running your own copy instead needs Docker or Node, which is a job for developers.","costNote":"The code and the public site are free and MIT-licensed. 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Instead of opening each tool's JSON, TOML or YAML file to change the address, key and model, you pick a provider in the app and switch with one click; it only replaces those connection fields and leaves the rest of your settings alone. It also keeps MCP servers, skills and prompts in one place, reads each tool's session logs and shows token use. Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux.","easeRationale":"macOS is the smoothest: `brew install --cask cc-switch`, or a .dmg the README says is code-signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens directly. Windows has a .msi installer or a portable zip, and Linux has .deb, .rpm and AppImage files. It is a B rather than an A everywhere because the app is empty until you paste in a provider key, and Linux also needs glibc 2.35+ and WebKitGTK 4.1 (RHEL, Rocky and Alma 8-9 are not supported).","costNote":"The app is free and MIT-licensed. It does nothing on its own: you still pay for the AI provider, subscription or relay whose key you put into it.","notVerified":["Where and how the app keeps your API keys on disk, and whether they are encrypted.","Whether a switch ever damages an existing config file for one of the twelve tools.","Whether any of the sponsored relay services deliver the stability, prices and model versions they advertise.","What the usage and quota screens send to the provider to read your balance.","Whether the app phones home or checks for updates in the background: it bundles the Tauri updater plugin."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOTsxOiw","slug":"firecrawl__anydoc","name":"AnyDoc","owner":"firecrawl","fullName":"firecrawl/anydoc","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"optional_upload_to_vendor","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: with OCR turned on, \"Only documents that need OCR leave the machine, and the whole document goes, since Parse has no page selection\" (sent to Firecrawl Parse).","source":"ai"},{"code":"vendor_run_benchmark","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: the comparison table was run by the authors with an AI judge, and \"the corpus is not redistributable and is not in the repo\", so the scores cannot be reproduced by others.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["web","windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["rust"],"disk":{"minMB":8,"maxMB":24,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":["Firecrawl (hosted OCR for scanned PDFs)"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["office","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"abbyy-finereader","name":"FineReader","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":23281,"downloads":7208,"downloadsWeek":288,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":150,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":23131},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":23161},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":23197},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":23236},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":23261},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":23281}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.627Z","commitSha":"e7178e099b6bf9171e2c52b832cbdb4134b69112","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:15:07.907Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-23T22:55:34Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"founder","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Turns Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF and other documents into clean Markdown text, in your browser or from code.","summary":"anydoc converts office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV and text-based PDF) into Markdown, a simple text format that AI tools and websites read easily. It is made by Firecrawl and is aimed mostly at developers and AI agents, through a command-line tool and libraries for Node.js, Python, Rust and the browser. Anyone can try it on a demo web page that converts files on your own computer. Scanned PDFs need optional OCR, which sends the file to Firecrawl's hosted service.","easeRationale":"The demo page at firecrawl.github.io/anydoc converts files in the browser with no install; the command-line tool instead needs Node.js (npx) and the libraries need Node.js, Python or Rust.","costNote":"MIT license. Optional hosted OCR through Firecrawl Parse works without signup; a FIRECRAWL_API_KEY gives higher limits.","notVerified":["How faithful the Markdown is for complex files (big spreadsheets, slides with many images, unusual layouts).","Whether the demo page handles large files as well as the command-line tool.","What Firecrawl does with documents sent for OCR, and the limits without an API key.","What the npx command downloads on first run (it fetches a prebuilt binary for your platform)."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOLunVBg","slug":"firecrawl__firecrawl","name":"Firecrawl","owner":"firecrawl","fullName":"firecrawl/firecrawl","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D","web":"B"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"self_host_no_auth_by_default","severity":"attention","evidence":"docker-compose.yaml: 'USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION: ${USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION:-false}', 'HOST: \"0.0.0.0\"' and ports '\"${PORT:-3002}:${INTERNAL_PORT:-3002}\"' — the API you run yourself is published on the network without authentication unless configured; the default Postgres password is 'postgres'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"cloud_has_extra_features","severity":"info","evidence":"README: 'The cloud version at firecrawl.dev includes additional features'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"scraping_terms_responsibility","severity":"info","evidence":"README: 'It is the sole responsibility of end users to respect websites' policies when scraping.'","source":"ai"},{"code":"latest_code_fetched_at_setup","severity":"info","evidence":"README agent setup: 'npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser' and 'curl -s https://firecrawl.dev/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md' pull the newest CLI and instructions at install time, not a pinned version.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["web","windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["docker"],"buildTools":["docker"],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":["Firecrawl cloud API key (hosted service; not needed when you run your own copy)","OpenAI or compatible LLM endpoint (AI extraction features when you run your own copy)"],"cost":{"model":"freemium"},"license":{"spdx":"AGPL-3.0","category":"copyleft","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","automation","chat_ai"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"bright-data","name":"Bright Data","confirmed":true},{"slug":"browserbase","name":"Browserbase","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":197415,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":1711,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":195704},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":196084},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":196429},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":196769},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":197117},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":197415}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.628Z","commitSha":"33f295dc1f09133c02fc1e096d6685abda3464a7","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:39:17.108Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T02:38:52Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A web scraping service that turns websites into clean text or data that AI apps and agents can read.","summary":"Firecrawl searches the web, reads pages (including ones built with JavaScript) and returns clean Markdown, JSON or screenshots for AI agents. It can crawl whole sites, click through pages and parse PDFs. It is for developers building AI tools, used through code libraries (Python, Node.js and others), a CLI or an MCP server. The easiest path is the hosted service with an API key; running your own copy needs Docker and several services. The cloud version has extra features not in the open-source code. Users are responsible for respecting websites' rules.","easeRationale":"The easiest route is the web: sign up at firecrawl.dev and try it in the browser playground with an API key, no install. Running it on your own Windows, Mac or Linux machine is much harder: there are no ready downloads, and the docker-compose stack starts Redis, RabbitMQ, Postgres and a Playwright browser service.","costNote":"Running your own copy of the AGPL code is free; the hosted service at firecrawl.dev uses an API key and credits (prices not stated in the README) and has extra features.","notVerified":["Whether the Docker stack you run yourself builds and runs on Windows with Docker Desktop.","Real memory use when running it yourself; the compose file allows up to 8 GB for the API and 4 GB for the browser service.","Which features are missing from the open-source version compared with the cloud service.","Real cost of the hosted service for a given number of pages.","Whether the free tier of the hosted playground is enough for real work."]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnk1NzM2MDgw","slug":"freecad__freecad","name":"FreeCAD","owner":"FreeCAD","fullName":"FreeCAD/FreeCAD","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"latest_releases_are_prerelease_builds","severity":"info","evidence":"The three newest GitHub releases are development builds: weekly-2026.10.21, 26.3rc2 and weekly-2026.10.14. 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You place vector shapes, text and images on a timeline, animate them with keyframes and export to video or animated SVG for the web. It is for people who make motion graphics and do not want a paid tool. It is based on an older open-source program called enve. Windows, macOS and Linux have ready downloads; the newest versions are still labelled release candidates (1.0.0-rc.3), not a final 1.0.","easeRationale":"The latest release includes a Windows installer (friction-1.0.0-rc.3-setup-win64.exe, about 27 MB) and a portable 7z version, so you download it and open it.","notVerified":["How stable the release-candidate version is for longer projects.","Which video formats export correctly on Windows.","How well it performs with many layers or long animations on an average computer."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDORkolAw","slug":"garrytan__gstack","name":"gstack","owner":"garrytan","fullName":"garrytan/gstack","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"unusual_star_rate","severity":"attention","evidence":"138331 stars in 233 days (~594 per day)","source":"check"},{"code":"auto_update_each_session","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md (team mode): \"Every Claude Code session starts with a fast auto-update check (throttled to once/hour, network-failure-safe, completely silent).\" New code is pulled from GitHub without a prompt.","source":"ai"},{"code":"code_sent_to_outside_ai_by_default","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md: \"outside reviews (on by default; the first one prints a notice) send code to Codex or Claude Code under your own login and turn off with `gstack-config set codex_reviews disabled`.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"browser_cookie_copy","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md, /setup-browser-cookies: \"Copy selected cookies from Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, ... into gstack's bundled browser.\" Logged-in sessions become available to the AI agent.","source":"ai"},{"code":"public_tunnel_to_browser","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md, /pair-agent: \"Auto-starts ngrok tunnel for remote agents.\" package.json lists the dependency \"@ngrok/ngrok\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"remote_agents_can_reach_your_phone","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md, /ios-qa: it drives \"a real iPhone or iPad over USB CoreDevice\", and \"Optional `--tailnet` flag exposes the device to OpenClaw or any HTTP-capable agent on your Tailscale tailnet so remote agents can run iOS QA without ever touching the hardware.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"rewrites_agent_instructions","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md install prompt asks Claude to \"add a \\\"gstack\\\" section to CLAUDE.md that says to use the /browse skill from gstack for all web browsing and never use mcp__claude-in-chrome__* tools\"; setup also registers hooks.","source":"ai"},{"code":"unsigned_local_binaries","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"gstack's compiled binaries (`browse`, `find-browse`, `design`, `pdf`, `gstack-global-discover`) are built on your machine and unsigned, so Windows 11 with Smart App Control on refuses to start them.\"","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node","ffmpeg","other"],"buildTools":["node","ffmpeg"],"disk":{"minMB":150,"maxMB":650,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["Anthropic (only for the project's own test evals)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","development","automation"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"coderabbit","name":"CodeRabbit","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":138481,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":648,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":137833},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":137942},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":138073},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":138192},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":138330},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":138481}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.629Z","commitSha":"21277291c850765052ea9f80f6be4ccf1f1eb191","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T01:44:03.000Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T00:29:06Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A set of ready-made commands that make an AI coding assistant plan, review, test and ship software in fixed steps.","summary":"gstack is a bundle of dozens of slash commands for Claude Code and other AI coding agents. Each command plays a role, such as product reviewer, engineer, designer, tester, security officer or release manager, and it includes its own browser the agent can drive to test web pages. It is for programmers and technical founders who already use an AI coding agent. You need Claude Code (or another supported agent), Git, Bun and, on Windows, Node.js; on Windows it runs through Git Bash or WSL. The code is free, but the AI agent it drives usually needs a paid plan.","easeRationale":"D everywhere: there are no program files in the releases, so on each system you install Claude Code, Git and Bun, clone the repository and run `./setup`, which builds its own Chromium browser. Windows is the hardest of the three: it needs Node.js as well, runs through Git Bash or WSL, and the README says Smart App Control blocks the programs setup compiles on your machine.","costNote":"MIT licensed, and the README says there is no premium tier. It runs inside Claude Code or another AI coding agent, which usually needs a paid subscription or API usage; a few skills also spend money of their own (paid evals, outside reviews, Ubicloud VMs).","notVerified":["Whether setup finishes cleanly on Windows 11 through Git Bash without turning off Smart App Control.","How much AI usage each command consumes on a paid Claude Code or Codex plan, and what the paid eval and Ubicloud steps cost.","Real disk use after setup downloads its own Chromium browser and optional models.","What the auto-update and telemetry checks actually send compared with the privacy page.","Whether the dozens of skills work as described, since the repository's own description counts 23 tools while the README table lists many more."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVNLNMw","slug":"gathin23__cleanyourtv","name":"CleanYourTV","owner":"Gathin23","fullName":"Gathin23/cleanyourtv","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"45523 stars in 12 days","source":"check"},{"code":"tv_debug_port_left_open","severity":"attention","evidence":"The README's own answer to \"Isn't ADB access a security hole?\": \"Network ADB is plaintext on port 5555, and on some firmware any device on the LAN gets a shell, so close it when you are done.\" While the work is in progress anyone on your network can reach that shell; the repo ships tools/adb-closed.py to check that the port is shut afterwards.","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_break_tv_features","severity":"attention","evidence":"Switching off the wrong package has consequences the README documents: on Google TV the setup wizard \"can take Home and crash-loop the system\", and disabling it \"deletes the network\" if the Wi-Fi was saved during setup; on Chromecast and the Google TV Streamer it costs phone casting. The FAQ's way back when the TV no longer starts far enough is \"a factory reset from its recovery menu\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"ai_assistant_decides_what_to_disable","severity":"attention","evidence":"The recommended path is to paste PROMPT.md into a coding assistant, which then \"backs up, debloats, builds and installs the launcher\" on a TV it discovers by itself: \"the prompt has your coding assistant discover it on your TV and ask before touching anything you might use.\" You are trusting an AI's judgement about which system packages your TV needs. 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You get an HTML page you can click through, a Markdown report and a graph.json you can ask questions about from the terminal or from your AI coding assistant with /graphify. Code is parsed on your machine with tree-sitter and needs no AI key; documents, PDFs, images and video only use a model if you set one up. For programmers, with or without an assistant such as Claude Code.","easeRationale":"Same work on all three platforms, and macOS is the shortest path (`brew install python@3.12 uv`, then `uv tool install graphifyy` and `graphify install`); Windows needs `winget install astral-sh.uv` first. There is no installer: you need Python 3.10 or newer plus uv or pipx, and the only required program is Python. An AI assistant is the recommended way in (`/graphify .`) but not a requirement: the README says \"Beyond your AI assistant, query `graph.json` straight from the CLI with `graphify query`, `graphify path`, and `graphify explain`\" and \"A code-only corpus requires no API key: `graphify extract` runs fully offline\". Docker is optional, for the one use the repository's Dockerfile covers: \"graphify MCP server as a shared HTTP service\".","costNote":"The command-line tool is free under Apache-2.0. The same README sells Graphify Cloud, a paid always-on service with a \"free 14-day trial\". 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It is aimed at technical users. You need Python 3.10+ and a terminal. Text cleaning through the service also needs a rewrite model (local Ollama or an online API). Optional pixel-level image removal downloads about 10 GB of models and works best with an NVIDIA graphics card.","easeRationale":"There is no installer: you install Python 3.10+, run the skill installer script and start the local service from a terminal, and the heavier optional parts need Docker or an NVIDIA graphics card.","costNote":"If you choose an online rewrite model (the README gives DeepSeek as an example), that provider bills you separately.","notVerified":["Whether the Windows commands (py install_skill.py, py service/scripts/server.py) work as documented.","How well text watermark removal holds up against real vendor detectors; the README says no tool can certify a detector will fail.","How much the rewording changes the quality and meaning of cleaned text.","Real cost of an online rewrite model, and disk and graphics memory use of the optional ~10 GB pixel-removal models.","What the stealer/ folder and its prompt-corpus downloader send or fetch over the network."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOLeediw","slug":"harry0703__moneyprinterturbo","name":"MoneyPrinterTurbo","owner":"harry0703","fullName":"harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"known_vulnerabilities","severity":"attention","evidence":"Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): python-multipart: GHSA-v9pg-7xvm-68hf, PYSEC-2026-3040","source":"check"},{"code":"bundled_music_unclear_rights","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md (背景音乐 section): \"当前项目里面放了一些默认的音乐，来自于 YouTube 视频，如有侵权，请删除。\" (the default background songs in resource/songs come from YouTube videos; delete them if they infringe). 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An AI model writes the script, stock footage comes from Pexels or Pixabay (or your own clips), and it adds a voice-over, subtitles and background music. It can also upload the result. On Windows you unzip an 876 MB portable package and run start.bat; on Mac and Linux you install it with Python. You need a key for an AI model service (or a local model through Ollama) and a free stock-footage key. The basic Edge TTS voice needs no key.","easeRationale":"Windows is the easiest: an 876 MB portable package you unzip (in a folder path without spaces or special characters) and start with start.bat, then enter an AI model key and a stock-footage key in the web interface. Mac and Linux have no ready package, so you install Python 3.11, create a virtual environment and run a few commands (pip install mpt, mpt webui).","costNote":"The program is free. Script writing uses an AI model service, usually paid per use (a local model through Ollama is an option). Pexels and Pixabay keys are free, and the Edge TTS voice needs no key. AI-generated video clips from the listed services are paid.","notVerified":["Whether the portable Windows package starts cleanly and what update.bat changes after download.","Real cost per video with each AI model, voice and video service.","Disk use after the optional Whisper subtitle model downloads (README says about 3 GB for large-v3, 1.6 GB for large-v3-turbo).","Whether automatic upload to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts works and follows those platforms' rules.","The license of the bundled background music and of the stock clips that end up in the final videos.","How good and how accurate the AI-written scripts and the matched footage are."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVb-mOA","slug":"heydamir__unslop","name":"unslop","owner":"heydamir","fullName":"heydamir/unslop","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"content_license_requires_credit","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md License: \"CC BY 4.0. 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You point it at a screen you built with AI help, or even at a live URL, and it lists what makes it look machine-made (purple gradients, glows, emoji labels, shouty text, uneven spacing), proposes a direction taken from your product, then edits the screen pass by pass: spacing, color, icons, copy, type, layout, details, visuals and motion. It works with Next.js, React, Vue, Svelte, Tailwind or plain HTML and CSS. It is for people who write front-end code and already use Claude Code.","easeRationale":"The same on all three systems: you need Claude Code installed, then clone the repository and copy one folder into ~/.claude/skills (or the project's .claude/skills) and type /unslop. The optional story video also needs Playwright and ffmpeg.","costNote":"The skill is free under CC BY 4.0, with credit required. It runs inside Claude Code, which needs a paid plan or API use, and the optional hero images are generated by paid services such as fal, Replicate, OpenAI images or Higgsfield.","notVerified":["Whether the result actually looks better on your own screens, which is a matter of taste.","Whether it works as well on frameworks other than the ones the README names.","How much Claude usage a full multi-pass redesign consumes.","What the story video step installs and how it behaves on Windows.","What a paid image generation costs on each of the services it offers to connect."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDORi26-Q","slug":"heygen-com__hyperframes","name":"Hyperframes","owner":"heygen-com","fullName":"heygen-com/hyperframes","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"desktop_app_comes_from_outside_the_repository","severity":"info","evidence":"The README offers \"Download the desktop app: macOS · Windows · Linux (.deb)\" from hyperframes.studio links with tracking parameters, while every GitHub release here has no platform binaries. What that app contains cannot be checked from this repository.","source":"ai"},{"code":"company_project_that_also_sells_services","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository belongs to heygen-com and the README says HyperFrames \"is used in production at HeyGen\". The /media-use skill gets \"music, sound effects, images, icons, logos, voiceover, avatar and generated video ... with HeyGen or free local tools\", so the free framework also leads to the company's paid service.","source":"ai"},{"code":"runs_a_browser_and_the_scripts_inside_your_composition","severity":"info","evidence":"Rendering \"seeks each frame in headless Chrome\" with Puppeteer and runs whatever JavaScript the HTML contains. The README's own example loads GSAP from cdn.jsdelivr.net at render time, and `npx hyperframes add <block>` copies code from the catalogue into your project, so a composition or block from someone else runs its code on your machine.","source":"ai"},{"code":"installs_skills_into_your_ai_assistant","severity":"info","evidence":"`claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes` or `npx hyperframes skills update` writes skill files for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others. The README warns that a project-local install \"can overlap the tracked skills/ source and overwrite uncommitted edits\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"early_version_moving_very_fast","severity":"info","evidence":"574 releases since the repository was created on 2026-03-10, with the version still at 0.8.225 and three releases on 2026-10-31 alone. 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The same file always produces the same video, which suits automatic pipelines. It comes with a catalogue of about 450 ready-made pieces (titles, captions, charts, transitions) and skills so Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can build the video for you. For people comfortable with HTML and a terminal; it needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.","easeRationale":"The documented path is the same on all three systems and macOS is the best covered: install Node.js 22 or newer and FFmpeg, then `npx hyperframes init my-video`, `npx hyperframes preview` and `npx hyperframes render`. There is no installer in the GitHub releases; the README links a separate desktop app download for macOS, Windows and Linux (.deb) from the project's own website, which is outside this repository.","costNote":"Apache-2.0, and the README says there are \"no per-render fees or commercial-use thresholds\". Optional extras cost money: a Gemini key for image captioning (the project estimates about $0.001 per image), HeyGen's paid services through the /media-use skill, and AWS Lambda if you render in the cloud.","notVerified":["Whether the advertised desktop app removes the need for Node.js and FFmpeg.","How long a render takes and how much CPU and disk it needs, since every frame is drawn in a browser and then encoded.","Whether an AI assistant really produces a usable video from one prompt.","Whether fonts, music and video clips suggested by the /media-use skill come with rights you may use.","What the AWS Lambda rendering path costs if you deploy it."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVHytVw","slug":"heyputer__everything","name":"Everything","owner":"HeyPuter","fullName":"HeyPuter/everything","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C","web":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"5249 stars in 16 days","source":"check"},{"code":"very_young_huge_scope","severity":"info","evidence":"Repository created 2026-10-13 (about two weeks before analysis) and already lists roughly 50 apps claiming to replace products such as Photoshop, AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks and Salesforce; the checks record 5249 stars in 16 days.","source":"ai"},{"code":"demo_links_not_ready","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: many \"Try it\" links carry title=\"Demo URL not yet provided\" or point to \"#link-status\" (for example Notes, Wiki, Expenses, Assets, Property Management, API Client).","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["web","windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["office","productivity","design_cad"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":6112,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":1949,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":4163},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":4418},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":4961},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":5217},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":5948},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":6112}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.635Z","commitSha":"00f4a541a31eed0c86e30934c1842cdd2c3a32bd","verifiedAt":"2026-10-30T01:59:23.801Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T15:00:02Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A large set of free web apps, such as a spreadsheet, documents, photo editor and CAD tool, that you can try in a browser.","summary":"The Everything Project, from the company behind Puter, collects about 50 free apps in one repository: office tools (spreadsheet, documents, slides, PDF), team chat, photo, video and audio editors, CAD and engineering tools, business apps like a CRM and invoicing, and simple games. Each app lists the paid product it aims to replace. Many have a \"Try it\" link that opens a hosted version in your browser; some links are still marked as not ready. Running an app yourself needs Node.js 22.12 or newer and a few terminal commands. The project started in October 2026.","easeRationale":"On the web it is grade A: many apps have hosted versions on puter.com that open directly in a browser with nothing to install. On Windows, macOS and Linux you run a copy yourself, which the README says needs Node.js 22.12 or newer plus `npm install` and `npm run dev` inside each app's folder.","costNote":"MIT license. The README does not say whether the hosted versions on puter.com need an account or have limits.","notVerified":["How complete each app is compared with the paid product it names; some may be early prototypes.","Whether the hosted versions need a Puter account, store your files on Puter servers, or have usage limits.","Whether every app runs locally on Windows with the documented npm commands.","How files made in these apps open in the paid programs they replace (for example .docx, .xlsx, .dwg)."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOQwI8Aw","slug":"hkuds__deeptutor","name":"DeepTutor","owner":"HKUDS","fullName":"HKUDS/DeepTutor","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"desktop_builds_are_previews_and_unsigned","severity":"attention","evidence":"README 'Desktop — macOS and Windows (Preview)': 'Desktop previews are available on dev; the v1.7.0 Release does not include desktop installers', with downloads taken from CI artifacts that 'expire after seven days', and 'Windows preview builds are unsigned and may show a SmartScreen warning.'","source":"ai"},{"code":"ai_can_run_commands_on_your_computer","severity":"attention","evidence":"The chat tool list includes 'exec', and the Dockerfile says 'the restricted-subprocess backend (which the office skills... rely on for exec) is enabled by default via the sandbox_allow_subprocess runtime setting (system.json, default on)'. docker-compose.yml adds that on 'bare-metal / macOS deployments where the runner is not started' the app 'degrades to bwrap (Linux, if installed) or... a restricted subprocess', so how well commands are boxed in depends on how you installed it.","source":"ai"},{"code":"installs_third_party_code_while_running","severity":"attention","evidence":"Dockerfile note: 'git is required to install CLI apps — most of the CLI-Anything catalog installs with pip install git+…'. The release notes list '101 CLI Apps the tutor can run' and 'Install community skills from ClawHub with deeptutor skill install behind a security gate'. Compose files also re-apply DEEPTUTOR_EXTRAS and DEEPTUTOR_APT_PACKAGES on every start.","source":"ai"},{"code":"docker_files_publish_ports_to_the_network","severity":"attention","evidence":"compose.yaml (podman) binds '127.0.0.1:${HOST_PORT_BACKEND:-8001}:8001', but docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.ghcr.yml publish '${DEEPTUTOR_DOCKER_BACKEND_PORT:-8001}:...' with no 127.0.0.1 prefix, so on those files the app answers on every network interface of the machine.","source":"ai"},{"code":"keys_and_accounts_kept_in_the_data_folder","severity":"info","evidence":"docker-compose.yml comments: the data tree holds 'accounts/grants/audit (data/system)' and 'never data/system, which holds auth state, provider API keys, and per-owner secrets' is called out as the part the sandbox must not see. 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You add documents, videos or web sources, and the tutor answers with citations to them, builds quizzes and practice, writes study books and narrated video lessons, keeps a notebook and tracks what you have learned. It brings no AI model of its own: you connect a provider key or a local model such as Ollama or LM Studio. There are preview installers for Windows and macOS that bundle Python and Node.js, plus Docker and pip installs for people comfortable with a terminal.","easeRationale":"Windows and macOS are a B: release v1.7.1 has a Setup .exe, a portable ZIP and a .dmg, and the README says the desktop build 'bundles Python, Node.js, and the full learning workspace, so no terminal or separate runtime installation is needed' — you then pick a provider and model in Settings. Linux is a D, because there is no desktop build and the documented routes are Docker or pip with commands such as 'deeptutor init' and 'deeptutor start'.","costNote":"The software is free (Apache-2.0). 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README, first lines: \"Not an official Minecraft product, nor approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. Horizon contains no Minecraft code, assets or data: you need your own copy of Java Edition 26.3.\" Cargo.toml says how the code is written: \"Ports mirror vanilla's Java signatures, index loops and nested generic types one to one so they can be checked against the decompiled sources.\" Those inputs are kept off the repository: README, Build from source, \"Prepared files land in the gitignored `.local/`: never commit or share them.\" and README, Contributing, \"Never commit game files, decompiled source or prepared resources.\" The rule involved is named in the project's own Licence section: \"Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB; its code and assets belong to Mojang and Microsoft under the [Minecraft EULA]\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"signs_in_with_your_microsoft_account_and_joins_online_servers","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, Download: \"You need a Microsoft account that owns Java Edition\", and when you have no existing install, \"Play downloads 26.3 from Mojang for your account\". The Multiplayer line is \"invite friends with a code, Open to LAN, join servers (online mode included)\". So a client that is not the official one signs in with your game account and joins online-mode servers with it.","source":"ai"},{"code":"parity_figure_is_the_projects_own_audit","severity":"info","evidence":"The 100% parity badge is the project's own measurement. README, Project status: \"The table is the project's own audit: every subsystem matches vanilla in every harness that compares it. 100% means 100% of what the harnesses compare, not that nothing else differs.\" The same section opens with \"Player-visible gaps: 833 open\", the audit line reads \"Last audited 2026-10-13: all 281 harnesses pass on Linux and macOS\", and the top of the README says \"more than 300 differential harnesses\". Known issues listed: \"Skins served over https show the default skin unless already cached; pack icons show the unknown-pack texture in game; item tooltips lack attribute lines.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"brand_new_project_releasing_several_times_a_day","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-03 and already has 294 releases and 344 open issues. The three latest releases are all dated 2026-10-31: launcher@0.2.31, launcher@0.2.30 and nightly-2026-10-31. The deterministic checks add 5388 stars in 28 days and an owner account created 4 days ago.","source":"ai"},{"code":"ships_a_tool_for_ai_agents_to_play_as_a_player","severity":"info","evidence":"README, Agent control: \"AI agents and scripts can play Horizon. `horizon-ctl`, shipped with the game, reads its state as JSON and acts like a player; `horizon-ctl mcp` serves the same commands over MCP.\" The listed commands walk, mine and click inventory slots. The workspace also contains crates/horizon-bots and crates/horizon-anticheat.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["rust"],"disk":{"minMB":14,"maxMB":42,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":["Microsoft account that owns Minecraft: Java Edition"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["games"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":5386,"downloads":501359,"downloadsWeek":227600,"downloadsDays":2,"growth":2869,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":4348},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":4906},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":5386}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:21.336Z","commitSha":"bfc2a2798fdd2a0cfc80035b032ac045b78063b5","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T02:00:12.080Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T01:12:06Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A free Rust rewrite of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 that plays your own worlds, if you already own the game.","summary":"An unofficial, free rewrite of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 in Rust. It reads vanilla saves, makes the same terrain and follows the same rules, checked against the Java game by \"more than 300 differential harnesses\". You install it with the Horizon launcher, which needs a Microsoft account that owns Java Edition and prepares the files from your own copy. Extras include distant terrain up to 1024 chunks, controllers, a minimap and a server page. Java mod jars do not run. The project's own status page counts \"Player-visible gaps: 833 open\".","easeRationale":"B on Windows, Linux and Mac: the launcher releases ship ready binaries (horizon-launcher-windows-x64.zip, horizon-launcher-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, horizon-launcher-macos-arm64.dmg and horizon-launcher-macos-x64.dmg) and the launcher \"installs and updates the game, prepares its files from your copy of Minecraft, and updates itself\". The extra steps are the ones the README lists: \"a Microsoft account that owns Java Edition\" and \"a GPU with Vulkan or OpenGL 3.3 (Linux), Vulkan or DirectX 12 (Windows), or a Mac (Apple Silicon, or Intel from the next Nightly)\".","costNote":"Horizon itself is free and MIT-licensed, but it is not a free way to get Minecraft. The README says \"Horizon contains no Minecraft code, assets or data: you need your own copy of Java Edition 26.3\", and you need \"a Microsoft account that owns Java Edition\".","notVerified":["Whether it behaves like the Java game in everything the harnesses do not compare: the audit covers 281 harnesses and the status page still lists 833 player-visible gaps.","How it performs on a given graphics card, and whether the Intel driver crash the Cargo.toml comment describes is really gone.","Whether the servers you play on accept a client that is not the official one, and what that means for your account.","What the launcher does with your Microsoft sign-in and where it keeps the token.","Real disk use once the game files, the JDK and the prepared resources are on your machine.","Whether Mojang or Microsoft will take a position on the project."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOQl_Gyg","slug":"hugohe3__ppt-master","name":"PPT Master","owner":"hugohe3","fullName":"hugohe3/ppt-master","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"readme_steers_you_to_api_resellers_it_earns_from","severity":"attention","evidence":"The README's sponsor section and .env.example \"Sponsor relay shortcuts\" push paid API resellers with referral links and promo codes, for example \"https://www.packyapi.ai/register?aff=ppt-master\" (\"enter the promo code ppt-master during recharge to get 10% off\"), \"https://apikey.fan/register?aff=PPT-MASTER\" and \"https://runapi.host/register?aff=WMLJ\". These relays resell access to Claude, GPT and Gemini \"as low as 7% of official rates\", which is not the providers' own channel.","source":"ai"},{"code":"pdf_support_brings_in_an_agpl_library","severity":"info","evidence":"README Acknowledgments: \"The optional PDF converter depends on PyMuPDF, which is licensed under AGPL-3.0 rather than MIT; it is only needed for PDF sources. See conversion.md before redistributing a bundle that includes it.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"found_pictures_can_require_a_credit_line","severity":"info","evidence":"README step 5: web search considers \"CC0, Public Domain, Pexels / Pixabay no-attribution licenses, CC BY, and CC BY-SA\" and \"Executor adds a small inline credit whenever the selected image requires attribution\", with `--strict-no-attribution` as the way out. Slides may therefore carry credits you must keep.","source":"ai"},{"code":"the_author_warns_results_depend_on_the_model","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"This is a tool, not a wishing well\": \"don't expect a finished, perfect deck in one shot\" and \"The cheaper the model, the more there is to do\"; the recommended setup is a roughly 1-million-token context model plus paid image generation.","source":"ai"},{"code":"huge_star_count_with_almost_no_open_issues","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository was created on 2025-12-10 and shows 71,322 stars and 5,562 forks with a single open issue, so public discussion of problems is thin for a project of this size.","source":"ai"},{"code":"update_runs_a_script_that_pulls_code","severity":"info","evidence":"README \"Updating Later\": for clone installs you run `python3 skills/ppt-master/scripts/update_repo.py`, which \"pulls the latest version and syncs Python dependencies when requirements.txt changes\". So what you run can change without you reviewing it.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python","other"],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["An AI model through your assistant (Claude, Kimi, GPT, Gemini)","OpenAI, Google Gemini or another image model, for AI-generated pictures","Pexels or Pixabay, free keys for better photo search"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["office","ai_skills","productivity"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"gamma","name":"Gamma","confirmed":true},{"slug":"microsoft-365-copilot","name":"365 Copilot","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":71657,"downloads":165669,"downloadsWeek":8218,"downloadsDays":2,"growth":2747,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":70830},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":71320},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":71657}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:21.345Z","commitSha":"5e8856be0da8e6bc85c4aa28acc614478f7b7137","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T01:42:42.701Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T06:05:30Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Ask an AI assistant to turn a PDF, a document or a topic into a real PowerPoint file you can keep editing.","summary":"PPT Master is a workflow (a \"skill\") you install into an AI assistant such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. You put a PDF, a Word file or just a topic in a folder, ask for a deck in the chat, and it writes a .pptx with real PowerPoint shapes, charts, tables, transitions and speaker notes, so you can keep editing it in PowerPoint. It can also reuse your own template or fill an existing deck. Everything runs on your computer; you install Python 3.10 or newer, the assistant, and the project files. The AI model is what costs money.","easeRationale":"C on Windows, Mac and Linux: none of the 38 releases is an installer, so you install Python 3.10 or newer, install an AI assistant, download the project (git clone or a ZIP) and run `pip install -r requirements.txt`; after that you only type in a chat window. 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This GitHub page is only a pointer: the code is developed on GitLab and the program is downloaded from inkscape.org.","easeRationale":"A ready Windows installer is available (the checks found one of about 162–487 MB), so you download it and open it.","costNote":"The README describes it as free and open-source software.","notVerified":["The real license and recent activity, which live in the GitLab repository, not on GitHub","Whether the installer the checks found is the current version from inkscape.org","How well it opens files made in Illustrator or CorelDRAW"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVW5g1w","slug":"interplains__zero-breach-toolkit","name":"Zero Breach Toolkit","owner":"interplains","fullName":"interplains/Zero-Breach-Toolkit","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"known_vulnerabilities","severity":"attention","evidence":"Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): cryptography: GHSA-g6cj-pr64-35w5, GHSA-jwv3-5hgf-82ww, GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c","source":"check"},{"code":"very_new_repository_with_many_stars","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-25 and already had 4,007 stars and 428 forks on 2026-11-01, with 16 releases in that first week. 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The README calls it \"the only point at which the tool runs a program it did not ship\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"reports_hold_private_personal_data","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"Full reports can contain usernames, profile names, file paths, browsing details, SMS senders and message excerpts; keep them private.\" Reports are saved to a findings folder on your computer, and an --evidence-bundle ZIP is explicitly \"unencrypted\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"phone_check_needs_usb_debugging","severity":"attention","evidence":"The Android steps tell you to turn on Developer options and USB debugging and to accept \"Always allow\" for the computer. The README says to turn USB debugging off again when you finish, but a phone left in that state is more exposed.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python"],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["system"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"iverify","name":"iVerify","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":4006,"downloads":5803,"downloadsWeek":2011,"downloadsDays":3,"growth":4006,"growthDays":6,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":2785},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":3614},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":3869},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":4006}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T01:50:05.614Z","commitSha":"465134c6795302f95f66a1f80204f583ab328ca0","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:38:36.052Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T01:11:43Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Checks a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, an Android phone or an iPhone backup for traces of known spyware.","summary":"A free scanner that looks for traces of spyware that was already described in public research, such as Pegasus, Predator and Graphite. It reads browser records, startup settings, logs and files, and it can also read an Android collection or a local iPhone backup made on your computer. It is written for journalists, activists and anyone worried about being targeted. You install Python, download the folder from GitHub and start a menu from the terminal (on Windows there is a .cmd file to double-click). The check takes about 15 minutes.","easeRationale":"On Windows, the easiest platform, you install Python with \"Add python.exe to PATH\" ticked, download the ZIP and double-click scan\\run-scan.cmd, so there is no typing of commands. On Mac and Linux you type a command in the terminal, and on Mac you also have to give Terminal Full Disk Access or Safari's records are skipped.","costNote":"Apache-2.0 code; the indicator lists it downloads are published free by Amnesty International's Security Lab, the Citizen Lab, the MVT project and Echap.","notVerified":["Whether the checks really run to the end on each version of Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.","Whether a result is correct: the project itself says a clean result is not proof the device is clean, and matches may be harmless (for example a news article that mentions a spyware address).","Whether the single Python file attached to each release really rebuilds to the published SHA-256.","How much disk and time a full check takes on a machine with many files, since it fingerprints files up to 120 MiB each.","Whether the pinned dependency versions with known vulnerabilities (cryptography) affect the parts of the tool that are used, beyond what the README claims."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVaRZQw","slug":"jacke-pp__open-yoki","name":"Open Yoki","owner":"jacke-pp","fullName":"jacke-pp/open-yoki","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"E","easeByPlatform":{"linux":"E"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_owner_account","severity":"attention","evidence":"Owner account created 77 days ago","source":"check"},{"code":"crypto_promotion_main_use","severity":"attention","evidence":"The host is built around crypto streaming: the README says it streams on Binance Square, works \"懂行情\" with public prices and CoinAnk contract data, and in the TwinOasis square \"还能喊单，喊的币会在公开的战绩榜上跟踪涨跌\" (it can call coins, and the calls are tracked on a public scoreboard). An AI persona that talks up coins to an audience can run into financial-promotion rules, even though the README says \"没有钱包、交易、下注、红包抽奖、发币相关功能\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"ai_posts_on_your_accounts_unattended","severity":"attention","evidence":"The optional \"heart\" is a long-running AI (Claude Code or DeepSeek) that keeps its own folder of notes and \"决定发什么\" (decides what to publish): what it writes lands on Binance Square through ops/square_post.py and on X through the X API, and it can search the web on a daily dollar budget (HEART_WEB_USD, default 20). Nothing in the described flow asks a person to approve a post before it goes out.","source":"ai"},{"code":"voice_cloning_and_digital_face","severity":"info","evidence":"Step 4 of \"做你自己的主播\": \"复刻声音 (app/tools/volc-clone.mjs)\" and upload the look and movements to Vidu. Cloning a voice or a face that is not yours, or passing the result off as a real person, can break the platforms' rules and the law in some countries; the TwinOasis rules quoted in the README include \"不假装是真人\" (do not pretend to be human).","source":"ai"},{"code":"asks_for_your_douyin_cookie","severity":"attention","evidence":".env.example: \"DOUYIN_COOKIE=\" - \"抖音 cookie 文件的路径（文件里放浏览器复制出来的 cookie）\". Copying your own browser cookie onto a server gives that server your signed-in Douyin session, and automated reading with it can get the account limited.","source":"ai"},{"code":"snapshot_of_a_closed_product","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"这份代码截自 yoki 10 月 24 日跑的版本（v150），之后的新功能分批再放\" - the code is a cut of the live product as of 24 October, with later features released in batches. There are no GitHub releases and the only contact given is a DM to @Jacke_pp on X.","source":"ai"},{"code":"chat_ingest_key_lets_anyone_speak_to_her","severity":"info","evidence":"README Security section: \"弹幕接入的钥匙谁拿到都能往她的弹幕里塞话\" - whoever holds the ingest key can push any message into the host's chat feed, so the key must stay on the machine that reads your live room.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["linux"],"tools":["node","ffmpeg","other"],"buildTools":["ffmpeg"],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":["OpenRouter (the model that talks)","Volcengine Doubao voice, plus a voice ID","Vidu (the moving digital face, needed for a real stream)","Volcengine RTC (sends the picture to the stream)","Anthropic or DeepSeek (the optional long-term memory, the \"heart\")","X (posting and replying)","Binance Square OpenAPI (publishing posts)","CoinAnk (crypto market data)","TikHub, plus a Douyin cookie (trending topics)","fal.ai (backup voice)","Telegram bot (fan and team groups)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_agents","video","chat_ai"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"heygen","name":"HeyGen","confirmed":true},{"slug":"elevenlabs","name":"ElevenLabs","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":592,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":1,"growth":592,"growthDays":3,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":477},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":592}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-30T01:57:54.315Z","commitSha":"2447d748dac4839a8ca238c8bf697ebfd12d398c","verifiedAt":"2026-10-30T01:45:01.738Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-28T09:20:58Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Runs your own AI live streamer on a server: a cloned voice, a moving digital face, chat replies, a diary and its own posts.","summary":"The code behind \"yoki\", an AI host that streams nightly on Binance Square. It builds a 16:9 live picture with a real-time digital face, a cloned voice and subtitles, pushes it out by RTMP, reads the chat and answers in seconds, remembers regulars, keeps a diary and posts on its own to Binance Square and X. The face, voice, personality and accounts of the original host are not included: you supply your own. It is made for an Ubuntu server (4 cores, 8 GB) and needs several paid services. The README is in Chinese, with an English version.","easeRationale":"This is server software: the README asks for an x86_64 Ubuntu machine with 4 cores and 8 GB, Node 22 or newer, ffmpeg and a headless Chrome, then deploy/install.sh, systemd services and Caddy in front, a key file under /etc/livehost/, keys from several paid services, a cloned voice and a digital face built on Vidu. The author says the step-by-step guide in SETUP.md is \"written for the AI that sets it up for you\". You can start it on your own computer to check that it loads, but without keys there is no voice and no face.","costNote":"The code is free (MIT), the running costs are not. The README's own table: the Vidu real-time digital human is billed per second of connection and is the largest item, Volcengine RTC a few yuan per stream, Doubao voice about 3 yuan per 10,000 characters plus a paid voice-cloning slot, OpenRouter a few cents per stream, and the optional Claude \"heart\" a few dollars a day. A server is extra.","notVerified":["What a night of streaming really costs, since the Vidu face is billed by the second of connection","Whether it works outside Ubuntu, and whether the servers suggested (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan) are needed for the services to answer","Whether Binance Square, X or Douyin allow this kind of automated account and posting","What the \"heart\" writes and publishes over days, since it keeps its own notes and decides on its own","How much disk the recordings use (the README warns SQUARE_TAP can take several GB a night)","Whether the English README matches the Chinese one, which is the one kept up to date"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVRA2_g","slug":"jakeschincariol__day-trader-skill","name":"Day Trader Skill","owner":"Jakeschincariol","fullName":"Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"very_new_repository_high_star_count","severity":"attention","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-20 and its last push is the same day, 2026-10-20 — ten days with no commits — yet it already has 3621 stars and 834 forks.","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_send_orders_to_your_broker","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"/trader-broker | Order Executor | Sends approved orders to your broker, paper trading by default, never without your yes.\" The same README says \"Most people who day trade lose money. You can lose money.\" Real money can be lost if you switch off paper trading or approve an order.","source":"ai"},{"code":"unofficial_data_source","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Yahoo Finance's chart endpoint is not an official API: it can lag, change or rate-limit you. The scanner and the entry timer read 1-minute or 5-minute bars, not every tick.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"sends_your_name_and_email_to_sec","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"The SEC tools (news filings, the analyst) ask you to identify yourself: put your name and email in `trader/config.json` (`\"sec_user_agent\": \"Your Name you@example.com\"`) or in the `SEC_USER_AGENT` environment variable.\" That name and email go out with every request to SEC EDGAR.","source":"ai"},{"code":"simulation_presented_as_odds","severity":"info","evidence":"The Time Machine gives percentages such as \"target first 29.4 %, stop first 25.5 %\", built only from the stock's last 60 days of 5-minute bars. The README itself says: \"The future can do things those 60 days never did... Treat its odds as a reality check, never as a promise.\"","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python","other"],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":["Alpaca (brokerage, only to send real or paper orders)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","productivity","automation"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"tradingview","name":"TradingView","confirmed":true},{"slug":"benzinga-pro","name":"Pro","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":3979,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":1651,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":2328},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":2653},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":3247},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":3619},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":3979}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:27.943Z","commitSha":"3d0f4ef6986f4984b7c6bd46f7ff4f87744c3abd","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T01:59:24.829Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-20T14:17:50Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Eleven add-ons for Claude that scan stock charts, follow news and plan day trades, with your approval before any order.","summary":"Day Trader skill is a pack of 11 instruction files for Claude and Claude Code, plus small Python scripts that read free public data: Yahoo Finance charts, Nasdaq symbol lists, SEC EDGAR and US House filings. They scan charts for setups, follow news, time the entry, set a stop and a target, size the position to your budget and replay the session 10,000 times before you risk money. It is for people who already use Claude and trade stocks. You need Python 3.8 or newer and there is nothing to pip install; real orders go through your own broker and only after you approve each one.","easeRationale":"Windows, macOS and Linux are all C: you must already have Claude or Claude Code, then run one install step (paste the repository link with \"install skill\", or /plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill and /plugin install day-trader-skill@day-trader-skill), and have Python 3.8 or newer for the scripts, with nothing to pip install. Sending real orders needs a brokerage connector on top of that.","costNote":"The skills are free (MIT) and the README says there is no signup and no API key. They only work inside Claude, which usually needs a paid plan or API usage, and real orders need your own brokerage account.","notVerified":["Whether the scripts still work against Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq Trader, SEC EDGAR and the House Clerk today, since none of those is an official supported interface.","Whether the numbers in the Tesla example can be reproduced outside the offline test fixtures.","Whether the risk and budget checks really block an order that breaks your limits.","Whether anything other than an order you approved can reach your brokerage account.","How much Claude usage a full scan plus 10,000 replays consumes on a paid plan.","How much disk space it uses: the checks could not estimate it."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOU6HY4w","slug":"jakeschincariol__replica-skill","name":"Replica","owner":"Jakeschincariol","fullName":"Jakeschincariol/replica-skill","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"5794 stars in 23 days","source":"check"},{"code":"app_cloning_legal_risk","severity":"attention","evidence":"Description: \"clone any app: reverse-engineer it, rebuild it... then fix what its users hate\"; README: \"so you have an app you can sell\" and \"talk to a lawyer before launch if there is money on the line. This is not legal advice.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"single_day_repository","severity":"info","evidence":"Created 2026-10-03 and last pushed 2026-10-03, with no commits since, yet 5794 stars and 1017 forks.","source":"ai"},{"code":"deploys_to_production","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: `/replica-deploy` \"sets up production, gives you the DNS records for your domain, and ships it when you say go\".","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux","web"],"tools":["python","other"],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":["Claude account (Claude Code or Claude chat)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","development","chat_ai"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":6820,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":1023,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":5797},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":6068},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":6281},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":6487},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":6673},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":6820}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.639Z","commitSha":"77c9436fb3d18c3d58169efb8caf4fe906b0dc51","verifiedAt":"2026-10-27T18:15:07.907Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-03T12:07:14Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"founder","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Eleven instruction sets for Claude that guide it to study an existing app and build, rebrand and launch your own version.","summary":"Replica is a pack of eleven \"skills\", written instructions that teach Claude a step-by-step method. They walk Claude through studying an existing app from its public pages, planning and building a similar app, testing it, reading user reviews for complaints to fix, giving it a new name and brand, and putting it online. It is aimed at indie founders who want to build a competing product. You need Claude (ideally Claude Code) and Python 3.8+ for the small helper scripts. The generated app needs its own development and hosting setup. The README says it copies features, not code, logos or content.","easeRationale":"Installing is one command in Claude Code (or pasting the link into Claude), but the helper scripts need Python and the app it builds needs a full development and hosting setup.","costNote":"The skills are free (MIT) and need no API key, but they run inside Claude, and the app you build needs its own hosting and services.","notVerified":["Whether the skills really stop Claude from copying another app's code, text or images, as the README promises.","How much Claude usage it takes to build a full app with all eleven steps.","Whether selling a clone built this way is allowed under the law and trademarks in your country.","How well the generated app works compared with the original."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOUfXmpg","slug":"jaredpalmer__kev","name":"Kev","owner":"jaredpalmer","fullName":"jaredpalmer/kev","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"mac":"C","linux":"C","web":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"9621 stars in 40 days","source":"check"},{"code":"package_name_collision","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md warns: \"PyPI name collision: `pip install kev` installs a **different package** — K.E.V. 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Install from source as below.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"server_without_key_by_default","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"The server binds to 127.0.0.1 (`--host 0.0.0.0` to accept other machines) and is open by default; set `KEV_API_KEY` to require `Authorization: Bearer <key>` on `/v1/*`.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"downloads_code_at_setup","severity":"info","evidence":"The deploy instructions fetch and run a script from the internet: \"curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaredpalmer/kev/main/skills/kev-deploy/scripts/kev_serve.py\" followed by \"modal deploy kev_serve.py\"; the fine-tune path uses \"npx skills add jaredpalmer/kev@kev-finetune\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"accuracy_claims_self_measured","severity":"info","evidence":"The README's comparison tables against the Jev service were produced by the project itself and it says so: \"We don't know what Jev was trained on, so this isn't a controlled comparison of the two architectures.\"","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["linux","mac","web"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["python","gpu_any"],"disk":{"minMB":950,"maxMB":4450,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["Modal (only to deploy a hosted endpoint)","Vercel AI Gateway (only to compare against the Jev service)"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","automation"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"jev","name":"Jev","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":9737,"downloads":1094,"downloadsWeek":82,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":166,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":9571},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":9621},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":9662},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":9694},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":9721},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":9737}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.640Z","commitSha":"2074cc44256200bb37540103fa4572901faa10f3","verifiedAt":"2026-10-28T01:36:25.859Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-22T19:27:10Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Small AI models that answer yes/no, multiple-choice and rating questions about a text, run on your own machine.","summary":"Kev is a family of small AI models that read a piece of text and answer set questions about it: yes or no, pick one option, or give a rating, each with a probability. It is for developers who classify or route content, such as support tickets, and want it running on their own machine or server instead of a paid API. The server copies TypeSafe's System One API, so code written for Jev can point at Kev. You need Python 3.12 or 3.13, the uv tool and the terminal; a GPU for speed. A browser demo exists for the two smallest models.","easeRationale":"The best grade is on the web: the README links a Hugging Face Space that runs the two smaller models with nothing to install. Running it yourself is grade C on Mac and Linux, because you install Python 3.12 or 3.13 plus the uv tool, clone the repository and run a few terminal commands; the bigger models need a large GPU (Kev-27B asks for an 80 GB card or a 96-128 GB Mac), and Windows is not mentioned in the instructions.","costNote":"The code and the model weights are free. Running it costs hardware: the README quotes rented GPUs from $0.80 to $6.25 per hour and about $1 for one fine-tuning run.","notVerified":["Whether the published accuracy and speed numbers reproduce on your own data and hardware","Real disk use after the model files download (the 0.8B adapter is small, the 27B model is 51 GB of weights)","Whether it runs on Windows, which the instructions do not cover","The real monthly cost of a hosted endpoint on Modal, including the warm container option that keeps a paid GPU running while idle","Whether the Hugging Face browser demo keeps or logs the text you paste into it"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOIvux3g","slug":"jdx__mise","name":"mise","owner":"jdx","fullName":"jdx/mise","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"B"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"curl_pipe_shell","severity":"attention","evidence":"Install command pipes a remote script into a shell: curl -fsSL https://mise.run | sh","source":"check"},{"code":"downloads_and_runs_third_party_programs","severity":"attention","evidence":"This is what the tool is for: the README says it installs tools \"from a registry of 1,000+ tools or directly from backends like GitHub releases, Aqua, Cargo, npm, and PyPI\". Each tool you ask for is downloaded from someone else's server and run on your machine. `mise lock` records exact versions and checksums, but it is optional.","source":"ai"},{"code":"project_file_can_set_variables_and_run_commands","severity":"info","evidence":"A mise.toml inside a folder can declare environment variables, extra PATH entries and tasks with `run = \"...\"` commands. The README says variables and .env files load \"automatically as you enter a directory\", so opening a folder someone else wrote changes your terminal environment.","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_change_machine_wide_settings","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"Set up a machine with mise bootstrap\": `mise bootstrap` and `mise dot apply` \"apply system packages, dotfiles, Git repositories, macOS defaults, and background services\", and `mise bootstrap --adopt you/dotfiles` takes that configuration from a Git repository. 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Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild are the main cases; a dozen other games are early community ports. It ships no game content. You need an Apple silicon Mac, developer tools, a dumped game file and prod.keys, and a build that takes 20 to 40 minutes. The author suggests letting an AI assistant run the steps.","easeRationale":"On an Apple silicon Mac it is grade E: there is no ready download, you build the app from source with Python scripts, clang and Homebrew libraries, a build takes 20 to 40 minutes, and the author says so plainly: \"Installing and testing by hand is not recommended: there are many steps\" and \"I haven't provided a one-click build option\". The iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro routes are not systems Radar grades.","costNote":"The project is free (MIT). You must buy the Switch games yourself and get the files from your own console.","notVerified":["Whether it is lawful where you live to copy the game and the keys off your own console","Whether the build works with your exact game version and your own dump","How well each game actually plays, and how much it stutters while shaders compile","Real disk use, since a Switch game file plus the built app takes tens of gigabytes","What exactly the shader contribution file contains before it is sent to the project"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVRtv7Q","slug":"lyramakesmusic__neuron-explorer","name":"Neuron Explorer","owner":"lyramakesmusic","fullName":"lyramakesmusic/neuron-explorer","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"bundled_agent_has_shell_access","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, Claude tab: \"a chat running the `claude` CLI (installed and logged in) with the explorer as an MCP server (`explorer/agent_mcp.py`)\" which \"has file tools and a shell in your home folder\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"setup_script_installs_third_party_fork","severity":"info","evidence":"README, Sweep: \"bash sweep/setup_pod.sh  # fork, deps, model\", which installs the steering fork of vLLM (RhizoNymph/vllm) and downloads the model on the GPU pod.","source":"ai"},{"code":"research_preview_no_releases","severity":"info","evidence":"pyproject.toml says version = \"0.1.0\", there are no GitHub releases, and the repository is one week old at the analyzed commit (created 2026-10-21, last push 2026-10-28) with 1615 stars.","source":"ai"},{"code":"ships_prebuilt_caches","severity":"info","evidence":"README, Explorer: \"the caches in `explorer/cache/` ship with the repo\" — binary .npz files (layout, connections) you load without being able to read them, built by the maintainer's own sweep.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["mac","linux"],"tools":["python","gpu_any"],"buildTools":["python","gpu_any"],"disk":{"minMB":950,"maxMB":4450,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["Claude CLI login, for the optional Claude tab"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","chat_ai"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"goodfire-ember","name":"Ember","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":1776,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":300,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":1476},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":1614},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":1703},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":1748},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":1776}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:27.963Z","commitSha":"6a6f0e95bf49ad6626940021148f775d7d55d1e4","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:55:55.597Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T00:46:54Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A 3D explorer that pushes single neurons of a small AI model and shows how its answers change.","summary":"A research tool for people who study what happens inside a language model. It runs Qwen3.5-4B on your own computer and draws its layers in 3D, one dot per neuron: you push a neuron up or down, read the text the model then writes, search the stored runs and chat with the pushed model. The heavy data comes from a sweep that needs a rented CUDA graphics pod and a modified build of vLLM. You start everything with uv and Python commands. The code is under the MIT license.","easeRationale":"Mac and Linux are the systems the README names and both land on D: there is nothing to download and open, you install Python packages with uv and start a local server from the command line, and it loads a 4-billion-parameter model on your machine (MPS, CUDA or CPU). The data sweep behind it is run on a rented CUDA GPU pod with a forked build of vLLM, which is why neither system goes higher.","costNote":"The code and the model are free to download; the sweep that produces the data is described as running on a rented CUDA 13 GPU pod, which is not.","notVerified":["Whether it runs on Windows at all: the README only names MPS (Mac), CUDA and CPU, and the sweep scripts are shell scripts","Real disk and memory use once Qwen3.5-4B, the sweep runs and the UMAP data are on your machine","What the bundled Claude tab does while it works, since the README says it has a shell in your home folder","Whether the caches shipped in explorer/cache match the model weights you download, and how long a sweep costs on a rented GPU pod"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkyMDIzNjc2MTU=","slug":"lyswhut__lx-music-desktop","name":"LX Music","owner":"lyswhut","fullName":"lyswhut/lx-music-desktop","type":"ready_app","status":"alert","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"B"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"plays_paid_music_catalogues_without_a_subscription","severity":"high","evidence":"The project's supplementary terms in the README name the built-in sources as the official platforms Kuwo, Kugou and Migu (\"酷我、酷狗、咪咕等音乐源的官方平台\"), say data is pulled from their public servers as a logged-out app would see it, and then require: \"使用者务必在 24 小时内清除使用本项目的过程中所产生的版权数据\" — the user must delete any copyrighted data produced while using it within 24 hours. The same text says use is \"仅用于对技术可行性的探索及研究\" (only for exploring technical feasibility), \"禁止在违反当地法律法规的情况下使用本项目\" (do not use it where local law does not allow) and \"请尊重版权，支持正版\" (respect copyright, support the official releases). In other words the app's everyday use is listening to catalogues those platforms sell by subscription, and the project puts the legal responsibility on you.","source":"ai"},{"code":"music_sources_come_from_outside_the_project","severity":"attention","evidence":"README terms 1.2: \"本项目本身没有获取某个音频数据的能力\" — the project itself cannot obtain audio; it hands the song name and artist to the \"源\" chosen in the \"自定义源\" setting and plays whatever link comes back, and it \"无法校验其准确性\" (cannot check whether that is the right audio). Those source files are written and distributed by other people, not by this repository, and they run inside the app.","source":"ai"},{"code":"development_moved_to_a_different_project","severity":"attention","evidence":"README note: the new project Any Listen already covers most of LX Music's features and \"我们以后的开发精力将主要集中在新项目上\" — future effort goes mainly to that new project, with users invited to migrate. The last commit here is 42 days old (2026-09-19) against 1308 open issues.","source":"ai"},{"code":"optional_local_http_server_and_browser_control","severity":"info","evidence":"README: since v2.7.0 an \"开放 API 支持\" feature starts a local HTTP service that exposes player interfaces to other programs, and since v1.17.0 a Scheme URL feature lets a browser call the app, with a companion userscript published on Greasyfork. 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It handles PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, ZIP, EPUB and YouTube links, and keeps headings, lists and tables. The README says the output is meant for software, not for faithful copies for people to read. You need Python 3.10 to 3.14 and use it from the command line or in Python code. Optional Azure and OpenAI features are paid.","easeRationale":"The work is the same on all three: install Python, run pip install 'markitdown[all]' and then type a command such as markitdown file.pdf -o document.md for each file. The README's virtual-environment commands are written for Mac and Linux shells.","costNote":"Free under the MIT license; built-in conversion runs on your computer. 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The README says so itself: \"平台可能限制自动访问的账号\" — platforms may restrict accounts that access them automatically — and advises using a throwaway account rather than your main one.","source":"ai"},{"code":"install_by_letting_ai_run_remote_instructions","severity":"attention","evidence":"The quick start is to tell your assistant: \"帮我安装 Agent Reach: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../docs/install.md\", and to switch on \"允许它执行命令\" (allow it to run commands). The steps that get run come from a file fetched at that moment, and optional channels \"需要的软件会自动装好\" — install their own extra software, including third-party command-line tools credited in the README (bili-cli, boss-agent-cli, OpenCLI).","source":"ai"},{"code":"same_name_package_elsewhere_is_not_this_project","severity":"attention","evidence":"README warning: \"PyPI 上叫 `agent-reach` 的包不是本项目，请勿从 PyPI 安装\" — the package called `agent-reach` on PyPI is not this project and must not be installed. Someone searching the usual way can install the wrong thing.","source":"ai"},{"code":"very_fast_star_growth","severity":"info","evidence":"106306 stars and 9431 forks for a repository created on 2026-02-24 with 8 releases, carrying a Trendshift \"#1 Repository of the Day\" badge. The README also has a \"防骗提醒\" section saying the project has no token, coin or wallet and that crypto projects using its name are unrelated.","source":"ai"},{"code":"paid_sponsors_in_readme","severity":"info","evidence":"The README's sponsor table carries referral links to paid proxy and scraping services (Bright Data, RapidProxy, BrowserAct, CoreClaw, AstraFlow) while the project description promises \"zero API fees\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"depends_on_sites_that_change","severity":"info","evidence":"README marks twitter, facebook and instagram as \"实验\" (experimental): \"能用，但平台反爬更严，可能随时失效\" — they work, but those sites fight automated access harder and the feature can stop working at any time.","source":"ai"},{"code":"possible_illegal_use","severity":"high","evidence":"The README's platform table marks twitter, facebook and instagram as 实验: \"能用，但平台反爬更严，可能随时失效\" (they work, but those platforms fight automated access harder and it can stop working at any time), and the Security section says \"建议用小号登录。复用过来的通常是主账号，而平台可能限制自动访问的账号。\" (use a throwaway account; the reused login is usually your main one, and platforms may restrict accounts that access them automatically). The first time it uses a site it \"会把你 Chrome 里这个网站的登录复制一份过去\" — it copies your Chrome login for that site into its own browser. Reading logged-in pages on X, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Xiaohongshu and Boss this way, instead of each platform's official API, is something several of these platforms limit in their terms of service, and accounts used this way can be restricted.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python"],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["Groq","OpenAI"],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["automation","development","ai_skills"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"bright-data","name":"Bright Data","confirmed":true},{"slug":"x-twitter-api","name":"X (Twitter) API","confirmed":true},{"slug":"browserbase","name":"Browserbase","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":107229,"downloads":49566,"downloadsWeek":19964,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":3627,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":104929},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":105636},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":106301},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":106830},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":107229}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:28.010Z","commitSha":"14c213405669414492bda0f8d52cc6531d062c45","verifiedAt":"2026-10-30T01:42:21.576Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-25T04:37:23Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A command-line tool that lets your AI assistant read and search X, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub and Chinese sites like Bilibili.","summary":"Agent Reach is a single command you install on your computer so an AI assistant such as Claude Code can look things up on sites it normally cannot reach. It searches and reads posts, profiles, job ads, video subtitles and stock quotes, and hands the result back as tidy data. For sites that need an account it runs its own background browser and copies the login for that one site out of your Chrome. It only reads; it never posts. You install it from the terminal and the main documentation is in Chinese.","easeRationale":"Same on all three systems: there is no installer or ready binary, so you install the `uv` helper and run the install steps from the terminal (the README suggests pasting a link and letting your AI assistant run the commands for you). Afterwards each site that needs an account has its own sign-in step, such as scanning a QR code for Bilibili subtitles.","costNote":"The tool is free and MIT-licensed. Turning speech into text on YouTube or the Xiaoyuzhou podcast site needs a Groq or OpenAI key, which those services charge for.","notVerified":["Whether each of the 14 sites still works today, since the project itself says features break when a site changes","Exactly what is copied out of your Chrome profile and what the private browser keeps on disk","Whether using it gets your account on any of those sites limited or closed","What the install file and the per-channel third-party tools do at the moment they are downloaded and run","Real disk use once the private browser and each channel's tools are installed","The real cost of speech-to-text, which depends on your Groq or OpenAI usage"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVY7csg","slug":"patch-gg__anymove","name":"AnyMove","owner":"patch-gg","fullName":"patch-gg/anymove","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_owner_account","severity":"attention","evidence":"Owner account created 23 days ago","source":"check"},{"code":"known_vulnerabilities","severity":"attention","evidence":"Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): torch: GHSA-rrmf-rvhw-rf47; pillow: GHSA-22hg-r758-rrw9, GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c, GHSA-254f-3936-288h","source":"check"},{"code":"licence_of_what_you_make_is_not_only_apache","severity":"attention","evidence":"README licence section: \"MiniMax H3's open weights carry a community licence and hosted use on fal goes through fal's terms: check both before shipping what you make with them\", and the released wolf LoRA \"is a LoRA on MiniMax H3, so MiniMax H3's community licence applies to it, not Apache-2.0.\" The Patch name and marks are also excluded from the licence.","source":"ai"},{"code":"downloads_models_and_example_files_on_first_use","severity":"info","evidence":"requirements.txt: the DINOv2 backbone `facebook/dinov2-with-registers-base` is \"downloaded on first use\"; `tools/fetch_examples.sh` pulls the release files (\"13 MB mesh, 355 MB reader, 4 MB clip\"), and PyTorch comes from `--index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128`.","source":"ai"},{"code":"author_lists_cases_that_do_not_work","severity":"info","evidence":"README \"limits.\": eight-legged walking does not fit (\"The two views disagree about which legs are up (0.36-0.49)\"), lying down fails, \"Video models drift\" (plain MiniMax H3 swapped limb colours on 2 of 5 wolf clips), and the ground contact term only knows wolf- and dragon-style paw names.","source":"ai"},{"code":"repository_is_days_old","severity":"info","evidence":"Created on 2026-10-27 with a single release (`examples-v1`, same day) and already 359 stars; the deterministic checks also flag the owner account as 23 days old.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["linux"],"tools":["python","gpu_nvidia","other"],"buildTools":["python","gpu_nvidia"],"disk":{"minMB":950,"maxMB":4450,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["fal.ai"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["design_cad","games","ai_skills"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"move-ai","name":"Move AI","confirmed":true},{"slug":"deepmotion","name":"DeepMotion","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":448,"downloads":1183,"downloadsWeek":314,"downloadsDays":2,"growth":448,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":419},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":441},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":448}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:21.438Z","commitSha":"7a82a0a8fadffddd5c24fabf0697d9b6c814ce6e","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:41:57.185Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-27T08:49:38Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Turns one AI-made video of a creature into a 3D animation file you can load into a game engine.","summary":"A set of scripts and Claude Code skills that make animations for rigged 3D creatures (wolf, dragon, spider, demon) without a motion-capture suit. A video model films the creature from the front and the side in one frame, a vision model trained on that single creature finds its joints in both views, and the pair of views places each joint in 3D so the rig can be fitted and exported as a GLB. For technical 3D and game people: you need Linux-style commands, Python 3.11, Blender 5.x, an NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA (24 GB to train) and a paid fal.ai key for the clips.","easeRationale":"D on Linux, the only system the instructions fit: you clone the repository, build a virtualenv with Python 3.11, install a CUDA build of PyTorch, put Blender 5.x on your PATH, add a fal.ai key and run a chain of `tools/*.sh` shell scripts; training the joint reader wants an NVIDIA card with 24 GB. Skeletons are still placed by hand on grid views. One smaller step works without a graphics card: the README shows fitting the example dragon's roar on the CPU.","costNote":"The code is Apache-2.0. The paid parts are listed in the README (\"Prices on fal as of October 2026\"): about $0.26 for a 5-second two-camera clip, $0.40 for a mesh from Tripo, and about $12 for training the optional MiniMax H3 LoRA. A new move for an existing creature is about $0.52.","notVerified":["Whether it runs on Windows (with WSL) or on a Mac; the commands and shell scripts assume a Linux-style system and an NVIDIA card.","Real disk use after PyTorch, the DINOv2 weights and the example files land on your machine.","Whether the animation quality matches the README's figures on your own creature and your own mesh.","What the whole process costs on fal for a project with several moves, and whether the October 2026 prices still hold.","How much hand work placing the skeleton takes for a creature that is not close to the four examples."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVcsWsA","slug":"patch-gg__pixelfx","name":"PixelFX","owner":"patch-gg","fullName":"patch-gg/pixelfx","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_owner_account","severity":"attention","evidence":"Owner account created 25 days ago","source":"check"},{"code":"repository_created_today","severity":"attention","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-30, the analyzed commit is from the same day, there are no GitHub releases and package.json says \"version\": \"0.2.0\". It already shows 321 stars. Nothing here has been used by other people for long.","source":"ai"},{"code":"font_outside_the_mit_license","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"the Patch Pixel font in `gallery/fonts` is Patch's own and not covered: see NOTICE.md\". The effects and code are MIT, that font is not.","source":"ai"},{"code":"adapts_code_from_another_author","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"`src/core/sim.js` and the effects that say so at the top adapt his code\", from Hugo Duprez's MIT effects at Sprite Fusion, and LICENSE carries both copyright lines (\"Copyright (c) 2026 Patch\", \"Copyright (c) 2026 Hugo Duprez\").","source":"ai"},{"code":"installs_a_skill_that_runs_commands","severity":"info","evidence":"README: `/plugin marketplace add patch-gg/pixelfx` then `/plugin install pixelfx@pixelfx`, or copy `skills/pixelfx` into `~/.claude/skills/`. Once installed, the skill tells Claude Code to run the repository's own scripts (`tools/new.mjs`, `tools/render.mjs`, `tools/check.mjs`) on your machine.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node"],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":500,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["games","image","ai_skills"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"aseprite","name":"Aseprite","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":1421,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":0,"growth":1421,"growthDays":1,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":1421}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T01:54:33.085Z","commitSha":"fe7103c36d94e02f2d7df7d8f7a341e493837cde","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T01:38:15.197Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T08:41:17Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A free collection of 232 pixel art effects for games — fire, explosions, magic, weather — ready to drop in or export.","summary":"pixelfx is a set of 232 pixel art animations (fire, explosions, magic, weather, hits, pickups) written as small pieces of JavaScript instead of drawings. A browser game can import them directly; for Godot, Unity, GameMaker or LÖVE you run a command that writes a sprite sheet PNG plus a JSON description. Any effect can be recoloured with your own palette. It also ships a Claude Code skill so you can ask Claude to find, export or invent effects. It is for people who build games and can run a command; you need Node.js 18 or newer.","easeRationale":"The same on all three systems: install Node.js 18+, fetch the code with `npm i github:patch-gg/pixelfx` or copy the files, then run commands such as `node tools/render.mjs ice/frost-nova --sheet` to get a sprite sheet. The project's own gallery page shows every effect playing in a browser, but to put one in a game you write code or run the export command.","costNote":"MIT, including commercial use; the Patch Pixel font in gallery/fonts is excluded (NOTICE.md).","notVerified":["Whether the 232 effects really look as good as the montage in the README","Whether the exported sprite sheets load without changes in Godot, Unity or Phaser","How much disk the full export to `sheets/` takes, since every effect becomes a PNG","Whether the Claude Code skill produces usable new effects, which also depends on your Claude subscription"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOQWgufQ","slug":"pbakaus__impeccable","name":"Impeccable","owner":"pbakaus","fullName":"pbakaus/impeccable","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"hooks_run_outside_model_approval","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md \"Good to know\": \"Hooks run outside model approval. In Claude Code, installed command hooks run even when you deny the model's own commands, so the first edit can download the engine. Review installed hooks before unattended runs, or pass `--settings '{\"disableAllHooks\": true}'` to turn them off for a run.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"downloads_a_program_at_run_time","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md Installation: \"The skill itself runs a self-contained engine binary that ships next to it or downloads once into `~/.impeccable/bin/`.\" package.json ships `skill/scripts/engine-checksums.txt` for that download.","source":"ai"},{"code":"contacts_the_vendor_even_with_telemetry_off","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md \"Telemetry\": \"When a new design starts, the skill fetches a set of visual directions from the impeccable.style catalog. Turning telemetry off doesn't stop that request; it stops the anonymous record of which directions were shown and which one you picked.\" It adds that \"Your project name, files, code, and `PRODUCT.md` are never sent\" and that you disable the record with `npx impeccable telemetry off`, `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` or `\"telemetry\": false`.","source":"ai"},{"code":"writes_into_your_coding_tools_settings","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md Installation: \"The installer detects your coding tools, asks whether to install for this project or globally, and offers the design hook where your tool supports one.\" The repository carries a settings folder for each supported tool (.claude/, .cursor/, .codex/, .github/, .gemini/, .grok/, .hermes/ and more).","source":"ai"},{"code":"runs_a_project_script_in_your_shell","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md Live mode: \"Applying copy edits runs your `package.json`'s optional `impeccable:manual-edit-validate` script with your permissions, so review it before using live mode in an unfamiliar repo.\"","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node"],"buildTools":["node","rust"],"disk":{"minMB":19,"maxMB":58,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","development","design_cad"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":98291,"downloads":3573185,"downloadsWeek":312464,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":9072,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":90538},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":92686},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":95340},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":97074},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":98291}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:28.019Z","commitSha":"5e745ace7e151feb2a93d360d0281fe39448b857","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:43:03.696Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T18:13:22Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Adds design commands to AI coding tools, plus a checker that flags ugly or broken web pages.","summary":"Impeccable is a pack of design instructions and 24 commands you install inside AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot. After installing you type things like /impeccable audit or /impeccable polish and the assistant reviews or improves the look of your web pages. It also ships a command-line checker with 62 fixed rules that scans files or a website address with no AI and no key, and a Chrome extension that shows the same findings on any page. It is for people who already build websites with an AI assistant; you need Node installed to run the installer.","easeRationale":"On every system it is the same work: Node 18+ (package.json \"engines\": {\"node\": \">=18.19.0\"}), then `npx impeccable install` in a terminal, then `/impeccable init` inside your AI coding tool before anything happens. There is no installer in the releases, only the engine binaries the skill uses internally.","costNote":"Apache-2.0. The README says the detector needs \"No LLM, no API key\"; the design commands run inside an AI assistant you pay for separately.","notVerified":["Whether the installer and the downloaded engine really work on a normal Windows setup","What the impeccable.style catalog request actually sends and stores, beyond what the README describes","Whether the engine downloaded on first run matches the checksums shipped with the skill","How good the design results are in practice, since the 62 detector rules only check fixed patterns","Whether the hook slows down your coding tool on every file edit"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkyODEwMjky","slug":"pbatard__rufus","name":"Rufus","owner":"pbatard","fullName":"pbatard/rufus","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"it_erases_the_drive_you_point_it_at","severity":"attention","evidence":"The first feature in the README is 'Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3' and the project calls itself 'The Reliable USB Formatting Utility'. 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It also formats USB sticks and memory cards, checks them for bad blocks and fake capacity, calculates checksums, can download official Microsoft Windows ISO files, and can build Windows To Go drives that run from the stick. It is a single 2 MB file with nothing to install, speaks 38 languages, and is free software under the GPL.","easeRationale":"On Windows you download one file from the release (rufus-4.15.exe, 2 MB, with separate x86 and ARM64 builds) and open it; the README says 'Small footprint. No installation required. Portable.' 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You install it on both machines, read the ID and one-time password from the one you want to reach, and connect. It is used for helping family with their computer and for reaching your own machine from elsewhere. Out of the box the connection is arranged through RustDesk's own servers; you can point it at a server you run yourself instead. Ready downloads exist for Windows, macOS and Linux, and there are Android and iPhone versions too.","easeRationale":"Release 1.5.1 has a ready file for every system: Windows .exe and .msi (about 25 MB), macOS .dmg for Apple and Intel chips, and for Linux .deb, .rpm, .flatpak and an AppImage, plus listings on Flathub and F-Droid. Nothing has to be set up afterwards — the README says it \"works out of the box with no configuration required\" — though you do have to install it on both computers.","costNote":"The program in this repository is free (AGPL-3.0) and the public connection servers cost nothing to use. The same company sells a separate paid product, RustDesk Server Pro, for people who want to run their own server with extra features.","notVerified":["Whether a session is really encrypted end to end, and what the project's relay servers can see or keep","How well it performs on your connection, which decides whether the remote screen feels usable","Whether the Windows and macOS downloads are signed, and whether your system shows a warning","Whether the Linux package for your distribution installs and captures the screen on Wayland","Whether the Android and iPhone apps behave like the desktop ones, which Radar did not check"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOO3hF2A","slug":"ruvnet__ruview","name":"RuView","owner":"ruvnet","fullName":"ruvnet/RuView","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"curl_pipe_shell","severity":"attention","evidence":"Install command pipes a remote script into a shell: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh","source":"check"},{"code":"health_and_safety_readings_are_not_validated","severity":"attention","evidence":"The project's own MetaHarness safety list says \"Device-reported vitals are labelled as unvalidated\", yet the module catalogue offers `sleep-apnea`, `seizure-detect`, `cardiac-arrhythmia` and `respiratory-distress`; the `smoke-fire` module states it is \"Not a UL-listed replacement for code-required smoke alarms.\" Nothing here is a medical or life-safety device.","source":"ai"},{"code":"advertised_pose_feature_is_not_wired_up","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, \"Model weights: what's real, what's not\": the committed on-device pose model scores \"PCK@20 = 3.0%\", below the project's own ≥35% target, and \"Its runtime path in `cog-pose-estimation/src/inference.rs` is still a centred-skeleton stub returning `confidence=0` — the weights are not yet wired in.\" The published encoder file also fails to load (\"the published file's header is NUL-padded, which the reference `safetensors.torch.load_file` rejects\"), and an earlier \"100% presence\" figure was retracted.","source":"ai"},{"code":"watching_people_who_have_not_agreed_to_it","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"See through walls with WiFi ... 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The file lists ten things to change for production, but a copied-as-is server on your network has no login at all.","source":"ai"},{"code":"very_large_claim_surface_and_release_churn","severity":"info","evidence":"367 GitHub releases (three of them tagged on 2026-10-26), 504 open issues, and a README offering a \"105-cog catalog\" from vital signs to `ghost-hunter` and `weapon-detect`. The project keeps its own honesty tables for what is measured and what is not, which is also a sign of how much is claimed.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["docker","python","other"],"buildTools":["python","gpu_nvidia"],"disk":{"minMB":6,"maxMB":17,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["hardware","automation","network"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"origin-wireless","name":"Origin Wireless","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":101882,"downloads":110071,"downloadsWeek":551,"downloadsDays":2,"growth":2121,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":101576},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":101767},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":101882}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:56.463Z","commitSha":"3686bc770f77eb6161d5379861dcd09d7d9a1e4b","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:45:20.082Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-29T16:47:24Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Uses cheap ESP32 boards and ordinary WiFi signals to sense people, movement and breathing in a room, with no camera.","summary":"A WiFi sensing platform. 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A laptop with no CSI-capable board only gets coarse presence from signal strength.","costNote":"The software is MIT and runs locally, with no cloud account. You pay for hardware: the README quotes about $9 for one ESP32-S3 node, around $54 for a mesh of 3-6 nodes, and about $140 for a full kit with a Cognitum Seed.","notVerified":["Whether presence, breathing and heart rate work in a normal home, outside the author's measurements.","Whether through-wall sensing reaches the \"up to ~5 m\" the README mentions in your own walls.","Whether firmware flashing and WiFi provisioning on an ESP32-S3 or C6 go as described.","Real disk and memory use once models and the Python stack are installed.","Whether the signed edge modules do what their one-line descriptions say, and what they send to `seed.cognitum.one`.","Whether using it on a given room, or on neighbouring networks, is legal where you live."]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkyNzU3NDQxOA==","slug":"ryanoasis__nerd-fonts","name":"Nerd Fonts","owner":"ryanoasis","fullName":"ryanoasis/nerd-fonts","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"B"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"mixed_licenses","severity":"info","evidence":"LICENSE: \"Nerd Fonts source fonts, patched fonts, and folders with explict OFL SIL files are licensed under SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1\", the scripts are MIT, and \"Many other licenses are present in this project\" with a separate license-audit.md. 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You download the font archive for the family you want and install the font files like any other font. A separate script (font-patcher) lets you add the same icons to a font of your own, but that one needs FontForge and Python, or Docker.","easeRationale":"The same on all three: there is no installer, so you download a font archive from the releases page (for example JetBrainsMono.tar.xz), unzip it, install the font files the way your system does it, and then pick the font in your terminal or editor settings. 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The README says the 1.7.x versions are development versions and recommends the stable 1.6 series.","easeRationale":"This mirror has no release files, but the program is distributed from scribus.net and COPYING refers to \"the Windows version of Scribus\", so a normal user downloads it there instead of building it.","costNote":"Free software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, according to the COPYING file.","notVerified":["Download size and disk space of the Windows installer, which the checks could not measure","Which version scribus.net currently offers for Windows","How well it opens InDesign or Publisher files"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVG4bQg","slug":"seedds__nxnative","name":"NXNative","owner":"seedds","fullName":"seedds/nxnative","type":"needs_setup","status":"alert","grade":"E","easeByPlatform":{"mac":"E"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"7849 stars in 14 days","source":"check"},{"code":"console_keys_and_game_decryption","severity":"high","evidence":"The main use depends on Nintendo's console decryption keys: README \"Bring your game (its NSP files) and your `prod.keys`\"; build command \"build_ipa_from_nsp.py ~/Games/MarioWonder -k ~/keys/prod.keys\"; LibHac \"reads NSPs\". prod.keys are the keys a Switch uses to decrypt games, and they can only be pulled from a modified console. 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Apps are installed outside the App Store.","source":"ai"},{"code":"strict_device_requirements","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Needs iOS / iPadOS 26 or later on an iPhone 15 Pro or newer (A17 Pro chip or later) or an iPad with an M1 chip or later\"; for games that are not in the list the script \"still tries its best to pack an IPA, guessing the game's settings; such an IPA may not start\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"unaffiliated_with_the_console_maker","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Nothing from any game is in this repository, and the project is not affiliated with Nintendo or any game publisher.\" The repository ships only the conversion code; the game content comes from you.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["mac"],"tools":["python","dotnet","other"],"buildTools":["python"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":300,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["games"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":10639,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":4495,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":7822},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":9052},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":9734},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":10238},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":10639}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T02:46:39.239Z","commitSha":"712eb8167230a02023cfa57d10bb07b748b8933f","verifiedAt":"2026-10-28T01:42:59.433Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T01:06:22Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Turns Nintendo Switch game files and console keys into apps you sideload onto an iPhone, iPad or Apple silicon Mac.","summary":"A set of scripts that converts a Nintendo Switch game dump (NSP or XCI files) into an iPhone/iPad app (IPA) or a Mac app, so the game's own code runs on the Apple chip with graphics rebuilt on Metal. You must supply the game files and your Switch's prod.keys. It needs a Mac with Xcode, Homebrew, the .NET SDK and Python, an iPhone 15 Pro or M1 iPad on iOS 26 or later, and a sideloading tool such as AltStore. The first build takes 30–60 minutes and needs about twice the game's size plus 10 GB free. Windows is not supported.","easeRationale":"The Mac is the only system that can do this and it is still an E: there are no releases, so you clone the repository, install Xcode 27.1 with the Metal toolchain, Homebrew packages, the .NET SDK and Python modules, run a build script with your own game dump and prod.keys, then sideload the result onto the phone. 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The components are source files for a web project, so there is nothing to run on its own.","source":"ai"},{"code":"components_arrive_over_the_network_into_your_files","severity":"info","evidence":"The releases are npm packages (shadcn@4.23.0, @shadcn/registry@0.2.1) and the repository has registry scripts such as \"registry:build\", \"registry:health\" and \"validate:registries\" in package.json. The command-line tool fetches component code from a registry and writes it into your project, so what lands in your files depends on the registry you point it at.","source":"ai"},{"code":"large_issue_backlog","severity":"info","evidence":"1771 open issues against 127062 stars, on a project that is pushed to daily (last commit 2026-10-31). 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It is made for developers who want to build their own component library and keep control of the code. You need Node and an existing React project (Next.js, Vite, TanStack and Laravel are among the project's topics). The repository README carries no instructions: everything is on ui.shadcn.com/docs.","easeRationale":"The same on Windows, macOS and Linux: install Node, then run the `shadcn` command inside a React project you already have to add each component. There is nothing to download and open, and the repository itself explains none of it — the README only links to ui.shadcn.com/docs.","costNote":"Free and MIT-licensed, with no paid tier in the repository.","notVerified":["Whether the components work with the versions of React, Tailwind and your framework that you already use","What exactly the command writes into your project, which only running it shows","Whether later versions change components you already copied, since the code becomes yours after it is added","Disk use, estimated at 100 to 500 MB by a rule of thumb and not from a real download","Whether the accessibility claims in the description hold for each component"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnk3NjAwNDA5","slug":"shadowsocks__shadowsocks-windows","name":"Shadowsocks for Windows","owner":"shadowsocks","fullName":"shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"stale_releases","severity":"attention","evidence":"Last release on 2022-02-08 (1723 days ago)","source":"check"},{"code":"low_scorecard","severity":"attention","evidence":"OpenSSF Scorecard 1.8/10","source":"check"},{"code":"legal_status_varies_by_country","severity":"attention","evidence":"The app's purpose is sending traffic through a Shadowsocks proxy (topics 'proxy, shadowsocks'), and the default PAC rules send non-Chinese domains through it (README: 'geositeProxiedGroups is initialized with geolocation-!cn'). 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It adds higher resolutions and frame rates, ultrawide screens, DLSS and FSR, mouse and keyboard, 5.1 and 7.1 sound, trophies and cheats. You unzip it, run Uncharted.exe and point it at your game folder. No game files are included: the README says you need your own decrypted dump of the PS4 collection. It needs a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card with 6 GB of video memory. GPL v2.","easeRationale":"The download is a ready zip: unpack it and run Uncharted.exe. The extra step is the hard one — you must already have your own decrypted dump of the PS4 collection, which the project does not provide and which a normal PS4 does not produce.","costNote":"The launcher is free. 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On Windows it can add a Bash shell based on Git for Windows and optionally turn off PowerShell. It is for people who already use DSH 0.2.0-rc.2 or 0.2.1-rc.2. You install it from DSH's plugin marketplace or with an npx command.","easeRationale":"If DSH is already installed, you add it in DSH's plugin marketplace by typing the package name and a custom npm mirror address, then enable it; the npx route needs Node.js.","costNote":"The plugin is free under the MIT license. 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You paste each key once into its dashboard; your programs then use one local address with one key, and it picks a model that still has quota and moves on when a provider refuses. It works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Ollama style clients, including Claude Code and Cursor. Desktop installers, phone apps and Docker. The author labels it for personal experimentation only.","easeRationale":"Windows is the easiest: the FreeLLMAPI-Setup .exe from the releases page, which the README calls the easiest path, and the desktop app needs no account or password. macOS has a signed-looking .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel, and Linux has AppImage, .deb and .rpm. It is a B because nothing routes until you have signed up with providers yourself and pasted their keys into the Keys page. The server route (one-line script, Docker Compose) needs Docker and is harder.","costNote":"The program is MIT and free. A paid plan ($19/year or $49 once, by Stripe) only unlocks the same-day model catalogue; the free install gets a monthly snapshot and the README says it \"currently sits about 303 models behind\". 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It ends with a written report and a rating, and trades only go to a simulated exchange. It can also score past decisions and run backtests over a grid of dates. The README says it is for research and is not financial advice. You need Python 3.11+, a few commands, and an AI model: a paid API key, a ChatGPT plan sign-in or a local Ollama model.","easeRationale":"C on Windows, Mac and Linux alike: none of the 15 releases carries an installer, so on each one you install Python 3.11 or newer, download the code, run `pip install .`, put an AI key in a `.env` file and start the `tradingagents` command in a terminal. Docker is offered as an alternative route.","costNote":"The software is free (Apache-2.0). Each analysis makes many calls to an AI model, which usually means a paid API key or a ChatGPT Plus/Pro plan; a local Ollama model avoids that cost. Docker is an optional way to run it.","notVerified":["How much one analysis costs in AI API fees, since many agents call the model several times per run.","Whether the install steps work on Windows as written; the README shows Linux/macOS commands such as \"source .venv/bin/activate\" and \"export\".","How good or repeatable the ratings are; the README itself says two runs of the same stock can differ.","Whether free data sources such as Yahoo Finance keep working; the README mentions Yahoo's news feed being down.","What the memory log and the per-ticker checkpoint databases under ~/.tradingagents keep about your own portfolio once you pass one in."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOPng1Jw","slug":"thedotmack__claude-mem","name":"claude-mem","owner":"thedotmack","fullName":"thedotmack/claude-mem","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"curl_pipe_shell","severity":"attention","evidence":"Install command pipes a remote script into a shell: curl -fsSL https://install.cmem.ai/openclaw.sh | bash","source":"check"},{"code":"readme_promotes_a_crypto_token","severity":"attention","evidence":"README.md, final section \"What About CMEM?\": \"CMEM is a token created by a 3rd party but officially embraced by the creator of Claude-Mem (Alex Newman, @thedotmack). 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The README does not say what is reported or how to turn it off.","source":"ai"},{"code":"self_hosted_stack_not_for_the_open_internet","severity":"info","evidence":"docker-compose.yml: \"SECURITY: This file MUST NOT be deployed unmodified to any environment that is reachable from the public internet, including staging behind a VPN where lateral movement is possible.\" It also warns that API-key auth generation \"bills per token and can be EXPENSIVE at high observation volume\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"very_fast_release_churn","severity":"info","evidence":"GitHub facts: 381 releases since 2025-08-31, version 15.7.0, with three releases on 2026-10-29 and 2026-10-30 alone, and 139 open issues. 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While you work it captures what the assistant did, has an AI model compress that into short observations stored in a local SQLite database, and puts the relevant parts back into the next session, so the assistant does not start from zero. It adds search tools, a local web viewer, optional cloud backup and an optional shared team workspace. You install it with one npx command; it needs Node 20 or newer and a model provider.","easeRationale":"On all three systems you need Node.js 20 or newer and an AI coding assistant already installed, then run npx claude-mem install (or two /plugin commands inside Claude Code) and restart the assistant; the installer also pulls in Bun and uv by itself. Windows needs Node and npm on your PATH and a terminal restart. Docker is only for the optional self-hosted server stack.","costNote":"The code is free (Apache-2.0). 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It reads the TV, shows a plan of what it would switch off — adverts, tracking, preinstalled apps, brand extras — and after you agree it disables them for the main user and can put the Clean Your TV home screen in place. Nothing is uninstalled, and a restore point can put things back. It uses community lists covering 173 TV models from 47 brands, and it is a community app built on Gathin23/cleanyourtv.","easeRationale":"Android is the only system it runs on, and there it is a B: the release page has a ready APK you install by hand on the phone, and the one extra step is switching on network debugging on the TV with the remote and allowing the phone. Some sets only offer wireless debugging with a pairing code, and those need a computer once for three commands. 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The repository itself documents no steps, so what you actually have to do cannot be judged from the code here.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":[],"tools":[],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"BSD-2-Clause","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"file"},"categories":["system","hardware","development"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":1490,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":395,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":1095},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":1146},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":1225},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":1320},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":1490}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:28.081Z","commitSha":"120067ccc43ebb5e76ec62c9219a48c897052838","verifiedAt":"2026-10-28T01:42:08.111Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T00:55:14Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A boot and driver kit for people trying to start Apple's iOS or macOS on non-Apple ARM tablets.","summary":"UniXNU is a kit for developers who want to boot Apple's iOS or macOS on hardware Apple never made, such as a Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro. Like OpenCore on PCs, it is a UEFI boot environment plus build tools, drivers and system profiles that a device port is built on. It is not a program with an installer: there are no releases, the device support lives in separate repositories, and the build and boot instructions are on the project's own website. Only one tablet is listed as a target. Apple's systems are licensed for Apple hardware only.","easeRationale":"Grade E: there are no releases at all, no install or build steps in the repository (they are on unixnu.com), and the work consists of cloning several repositories with submodules, building UEFI firmware and porting drivers for a specific tablet. Nothing here runs on Windows, Mac, Linux or the browser as a finished program.","costNote":"Free and open source; the LICENSE file is BSD-2-Clause-Patent.","notVerified":["Whether iOS or macOS actually boots and is usable on any of the listed hardware","Where the Apple system files would come from, which the repository does not say","Whether a tablet can be restored to its original software after the firmware is replaced","Which parts work and which do not, since there is no release and no changelog in the repository"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOHvghIw","slug":"upscayl__upscayl","name":"Upscayl","owner":"upscayl","fullName":"upscayl/upscayl","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A","mac":"A","linux":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"needs_vulkan_graphics_card","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, marked IMPORTANT: \"You'll need a Vulkan compatible GPU (Graphics Card) to upscale images. 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You are being asked to step past your system's own check.","source":"ai"},{"code":"declared_alternative_comes_from_a_sponsor_banner","severity":"info","evidence":"The checks picked up a declared alternative to Postman from the line \"Requestly - Free & Open-Source alternative to Postman\". That line is a paid sponsor banner at the top of the README (alongside one for Warp), not a claim about Upscayl, which only handles images.","source":"ai"},{"code":"extra_models_from_elsewhere","severity":"info","evidence":"README points to a separate repository for more models (\"More models can be taken from here: https://github.com/upscayl/custom-models\") and credits community models hosted on openmodeldb.info. 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You pick an image or a whole folder, choose a model and a scale, and it saves the enlarged copy; nothing is uploaded and there is no account. It is for anyone with old photos, small scans or pixelated images. The AI models come inside the download, so there is nothing else to fetch, but you do need a graphics card that supports Vulkan, and the project warns that many built-in laptop graphics chips will not work.","easeRationale":"Every system has a ready download: a Windows installer (upscayl-2.15.0-win.exe, 249 MB), a Mac .dmg you drag to Applications, and for Linux an AppImage, .deb and .rpm plus Flathub, Snap and AUR packages. The models are bundled, so there is nothing to set up after installing — but the program only runs the AI if your graphics card supports Vulkan.","costNote":"Free and open source (AGPL-3.0). 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A collection file someone sends you can therefore carry code that runs on your computer when you run the request.","source":"ai"},{"code":"secrets_live_in_plain_files","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests\", and \"You can use Git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections.\" Keys and passwords you type into a request sit in those files, and can end up pushed to a shared repository if you are not careful.","source":"ai"},{"code":"owner_says_it_stays_offline","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device.\" That is the project's own statement; Radar did not watch what the program sends.","source":"ai"},{"code":"some_features_are_sold_separately","severity":"info","evidence":"README section \"Commercial Versions\": \"Majority of our features are free and open source. We strive to strike a harmonious balance between open-source principles and sustainability\", with a link to paid versions. Which features sit behind payment is decided on the company's website, not in this repository.","source":"ai"},{"code":"many_open_issues","severity":"info","evidence":"1969 open issues against 47931 stars, with the last commit on the day of this check and release 4.3.0 published on 2026-10-22.","source":"ai"},{"code":"name_is_a_trademark","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"`Bruno` is a trademark held by Anoop M D\". The code is MIT, but the name and logo are not yours to reuse if you republish a changed version.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":129,"maxMB":386,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"freemium"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","automation"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"postman","name":"Postman","confirmed":true},{"slug":"insomnia","name":"Insomnia","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":47965,"downloads":74698964,"downloadsWeek":897478,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":109,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":47856},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":47879},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":47909},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":47932},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":47956},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":47965}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.703Z","commitSha":"b569a7288a6ca38377f23878d9ab43da7dc3d511","verifiedAt":"2026-10-30T01:50:32.445Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T14:12:33Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Try out and test web APIs from a desktop app that keeps your requests as plain files you can put in Git.","summary":"Bruno is a desktop program for sending requests to web APIs and checking what comes back: you build a request, fill in the address, headers and body, send it and read the response. Each collection of requests is saved as plain text files in a folder on your computer, so you can keep them in Git next to the code and share them with your team without an account. There is also a command-line version, `bru`, for running a whole collection automatically. It is for developers and testers. Installers are ready for Windows, macOS and Linux.","easeRationale":"Release 4.3.0 has ready installers for all three systems (.exe and .msi for Windows, .dmg and .pkg for macOS on both chips, .deb, .rpm and AppImage for Linux), and the README also lists Homebrew, Chocolatey, Scoop, winget, Snap, Flatpak, AUR and an apt repository. You install it and start sending requests; nothing else is needed.","costNote":"The program in this repository is MIT-licensed and free. 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Nintendo has not authorised the project, which calls itself \"an independent, non-commercial fan project\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"linux_download_without_documented_linux_support","severity":"attention","evidence":"Releases v0.2.8 and v0.2.1 both ship TotK-Setup-x86_64.AppImage (210 MB), but the README's Features section says \"The game is playable on Windows\" and the Planned section still lists \"Linux and the Steam Deck\". There are no Linux requirements or steps anywhere in the README.","source":"ai"},{"code":"early_development_crashes_expected","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, Status: \"Early development. The game is playable on Windows; visual bugs and crashes are still expected.\" The repository was created on 2026-10-29, is at version v0.2.8 after 5 releases in three days, and already has 194 open issues.","source":"ai"},{"code":"unsigned_installer_asks_you_to_bypass_smartscreen","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, step 2: \"Start TotK-Setup.exe. If SmartScreen warns about an unsigned app, choose More info, then Run anyway.\" The installer carries no code signature, so Windows cannot tell you who built the file you are about to run.","source":"ai"},{"code":"code_mostly_written_by_ai_agents","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Most of the code and documentation is written by AI coding agents (Claude Code) under the maintainer's direction; the maintainer plays every build and decides what is merged.\" The repository's top level includes AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md with the rules those agents work under.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","linux"],"tools":["gpu_any"],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":129,"maxMB":388,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["games"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":2613,"downloads":49707,"downloadsWeek":29189,"downloadsDays":1,"growth":2613,"growthDays":2,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":1576},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":2613}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-30T01:57:54.489Z","commitSha":"f469c5a7745502357fc1664c04e02522fe92c42a","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:41:59.471Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T18:17:15Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Turns your own dumped copy of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into a Windows program that runs natively at higher frame rates.","summary":"TotK Recomp rebuilds The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Switch) into a program that runs directly on Windows, with a Vulkan renderer, 60 fps by default, custom resolutions, ultrawide support and keyboard, mouse or gamepad controls. No game data comes with it: a setup program asks for the base game and the 1.2.1 or 1.4.3 update dumped from your own console, and builds the game once on your PC. The README says it is early development, playable but with visual bugs and crashes, and needs about 36 GiB free during setup.","easeRationale":"Windows is the platform it is made for: you unpack TotK-Setup-<version>-windows.zip, run the setup, point it at your game files and wait for it to build, but those files have to come from your own console first and the README says it will not explain how to get them, and you also need Windows 10+, an AVX2 processor, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card with VK_EXT_external_memory_host and 36 GiB free. Linux has a 210 MB AppImage in the releases, yet the README still lists \"Linux and the Steam Deck\" under Planned and gives no Linux instructions at all.","costNote":"The project's own code is free and MIT-licensed. The game it rebuilds is a paid Nintendo product you must already own and dump yourself, and the install needs about 20 GiB of disk space afterwards.","notVerified":["Whether the game really plays through from start to finish, and how often it crashes","Whether the 210 MB Linux AppImage works at all, since the README documents no Linux support","Whether your own PC meets the AVX2 and Vulkan 1.3 requirements, and what frame rate you would get","Real disk use: the README says about 36 GiB during setup and 20 GiB afterwards, far above the 129 to 388 MB of the download","What the setup program does with your game files beyond building the game, which only running it would show","Whether saves really carry over between the 1.2.1 and 1.4.3 updates as the features list claims"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOQMFwdQ","slug":"vectorize-io__hindsight","name":"Hindsight","owner":"vectorize-io","fullName":"vectorize-io/hindsight","type":"framework_infra","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"everything_you_store_passes_through_a_model_provider","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"Behind the scenes, retain uses an LLM to extract key facts, temporal data, entities, and relationships\", and the quick start sets `HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_API_KEY` to an OpenAI key. 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Until you turn it on, tokens and personal data in what you store are kept as they come.","source":"ai"},{"code":"command_line_client_installed_by_piping_a_script_into_bash","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"Connect a client\": `curl -fsSL https://hindsight.vectorize.io/get-cli | bash` runs whatever that address returns, with no checksum shown.","source":"ai"},{"code":"benchmark_comparison_comes_from_the_vendor","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"Hindsight is the most accurate agent memory system ever tested according to benchmark performance\", with a chart from the project itself; the same section admits \"Other scores are self-reported by software vendors.\" It also states, without evidence in the repository, that it \"is being used in production at Fortune 500 enterprises\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"counting_pixel_in_the_readme","severity":"info","evidence":"The last line of README.md is a 1x1 image: `<img src=\"https://umami-pixel.chris-latimer.workers.dev/?id=a8b043e6-6964-454d-80df-69b69d3f0d50&host=github.com&url=/vectorize-io/hindsight\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">`, which reports views of the page to the author's own server.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["python"],"buildTools":["python","node"],"disk":{"minMB":200,"maxMB":800,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":["OpenAI, or any of the 25+ supported model providers (a local Ollama or LM Studio needs no key)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","ai_agents"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"mem0","name":"Mem0","confirmed":true},{"slug":"zep","name":"Zep","confirmed":true},{"slug":"supermemory","name":"Supermemory","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":56983,"downloads":56460,"downloadsWeek":1939,"downloadsDays":2,"growth":2878,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":56204},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":56643},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":56983}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:21.503Z","commitSha":"6decc291bc0b9f99568ad53cb0501f75128c6d7b","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:43:05.766Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T23:40:41Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"A memory server for AI agents: it stores what they are told and gives the useful parts back later.","summary":"A memory system for AI agents that you run yourself. 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It is for people who use the command line, mostly programmers. Installers exist for Windows, macOS and Linux, and it can also be installed with Chocolatey, Homebrew, Snap or the AUR. The newest builds on GitHub are test versions (4.0.0 canary) from July 2023, and there has been no release since.","easeRationale":"A on Windows: the releases include ready .exe installers (x64 and arm64, about 73 MB) that you download and open. Mac gets .dmg files and Linux gets .deb, .rpm, .snap and AppImage builds, so each system has a ready download — but all of them are the July 2023 canary builds.","costNote":"Free under the MIT license.","notVerified":["Whether the 2023 canary build runs well on current Windows 11.","Whether the known vulnerable lodash and uuid versions are reachable in the shipped app.","Memory use compared with lighter terminals, since it is built on Electron.","Whether the project is still maintained: there are commits up to 2026-08-21 but no new release since 2023."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVb5hFQ","slug":"wangzan101__mika","name":"Mika","owner":"wangzan101","fullName":"wangzan101/Mika","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"needs_deep_control_of_the_phone","severity":"attention","evidence":"The repository topics start with \"accessibility\" and step 3 of the README is to pair wireless debugging on the phone (\"在手机上配对一次无线调试\"). Wireless debugging is Android's developer channel for controlling the device, and the app reads the screen and taps in your place, so it holds the same reach over your phone that you do, including inside your messaging and banking apps.","source":"ai"},{"code":"automating_other_apps_may_break_their_rules","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, privacy section: \"自动操作第三方 App 和网站可能违反它们的用户协议，请自行判断\" — automating third-party apps and websites may breach their terms of use, and the project leaves that judgement to you. One of its own demos is \"看广告领听歌权益\" (watch ads to collect music listening perks), and others act on recruitment sites and shopping sites on your behalf.","source":"ai"},{"code":"your_screen_is_sent_to_the_model_provider","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"没有 Mika 服务器：你的话、屏幕内容只发给你自己配置的模型服务商\" — there is no Mika server, but what you say and what is on the screen go to the AI provider you configured. The demo of summarising a WeChat group means private chat content leaves the phone for that provider.","source":"ai"},{"code":"acts_without_asking_by_default","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: the default \"询问模式\" (ask mode) only stops to ask before spending money (orders, payments) and does everything else straight through, and a fully \"自主模式\" (autonomous mode) can be switched on. Mistakes in apps you are signed in to can therefore happen without a confirmation.","source":"ai"},{"code":"very_new_and_moving_fast","severity":"info","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-29 and had 28 releases by 2026-10-31, the newest being v0.1.27 — a pre-1.0 version number and several releases a day. It already has 2765 stars, so many people are trying software that is two days old.","source":"ai"},{"code":"sideloaded_app_that_updates_itself","severity":"info","evidence":"README FAQ: \"更新从哪来？只从本仓库的 Releases 发布；App 里「关于 › 检查更新」也能直接升级\" — the app is installed as an APK outside any store and upgrades itself from this repository's releases, so each update is only as trustworthy as the repository account.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":[],"tools":[],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":["An AI model provider of your choice (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Ollama and others)"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_agents","automation","chat_ai"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"manus","name":"Manus","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":2747,"downloads":8306,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":0,"growth":2747,"growthDays":2,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":2747}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T01:54:33.233Z","commitSha":"279a5cae405ac83106b47af9c2794ebfa3333a57","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:40:54.737Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T21:12:14Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"An Android app where an AI assistant taps through your phone apps and websites for you, using a model key you provide.","summary":"Mika is a phone assistant for Android: you ask in plain words and it opens apps, taps, types and reads pages on a hidden background screen while you keep using the phone. It also has a built-in browser, timed tasks and a Linux sandbox for files on arm64 phones. There is no Mika server: you connect your own AI provider key (DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, a local Ollama and others) or sign in with a ChatGPT, xAI or OpenRouter account. Chat and browsing need Android 11+; operating other apps needs Android 12+ and a one-time wireless debugging pairing.","easeRationale":"It is an Android-only app, so none of the desktop platforms get a grade and the deterministic check found no desktop binaries. The README's \"three steps\" are: install the APK from the releases page, then enter an API key or sign in with a model account, then — for the headline feature of operating other apps — run the \"set up phone control\" wizard and pair wireless debugging once in the phone's developer options, which the FAQ says some phones can only do from a computer over USB.","costNote":"The app is free and Apache-2.0, but it only works with an AI model you pay for: a provider API key, or a ChatGPT Plus/Pro, xAI or OpenRouter account. The README also allows a self-hosted model (Ollama, LM Studio), which has no per-use cost.","notVerified":["Whether the APK installs and really operates apps on your particular phone and Android version (the project ships its own 12-point compatibility self-check)","Whether the wireless debugging pairing survives Wi-Fi changes and restarts without a computer","What the AI provider you choose does with the screen contents and chat text it receives","How much the model calls cost in a month of real use","Disk and memory use on the phone, which the check could not estimate","Whether the Linux sandbox feature works on your device, since it needs an arm64 phone"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVSqAyw","slug":"wesbos__3d-model-anything","name":"3D Model Anything","owner":"wesbos","fullName":"wesbos/3d-model-anything","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D","web":"A"},"risk":"low","signals":[{"code":"assets_not_under_the_code_license","severity":"info","evidence":"LICENSE: \"Files under data/ and docs/images/thumb-1.png are excluded; see ASSETS-LICENSE.md.\" README.md adds: \"The supplied office images/textures have separate asset terms. Third-party marks, artwork and depicted products are not licensed by the code license.\" So the MIT license covers the code and the skill, not the demo assets.","source":"ai"},{"code":"iphone_app_not_distributed","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"The app is source-available here; an App Store release is a separate distribution step. Do not assume an App Store download is available yet.\" The iPhone app has to be built in Xcode and side-loaded yourself.","source":"ai"},{"code":"captures_photograph_your_home","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md: \"Keep your captures private; inspect assets before publishing your own demo.\" A capture is LiDAR geometry plus photographs of your own rooms, which stay on your machine in data/captures-in/ and are read by the AI agent you point at them.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux","web"],"tools":["node","python","other"],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":100,"maxMB":500,"basis":"heuristic"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"file"},"categories":["design_cad","ai_skills","hardware"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"polycam","name":"Polycam","confirmed":true},{"slug":"matterport","name":"Matterport","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":2534,"downloads":0,"downloadsWeek":0,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":317,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":2217},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":2313},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":2365},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":2480},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":2534}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:28.090Z","commitSha":"31b2dc9da3fb541e501f2f0936e55b32afb70ee8","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T01:39:55.244Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-22T13:10:20Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Scan a room with an iPhone, then have an AI coding agent rebuild it as an editable 3D scene you walk through in a browser.","summary":"Three parts that work together: an iPhone app that records a room with LiDAR and photos, a Three.js viewer that shows the result in a browser (dollhouse, walking, overhead and wireframe views), and an agent skill called scan-to-threejs that guides an AI coding assistant through measuring, modeling and comparing its renders with your photos. It is for people who write code. The README calls it an iterative workflow, not a one-click scan-to-model converter, and the current workflow covers rooms and interiors only.","easeRationale":"The hosted page opens in any browser with nothing to install, but it only shows the author's sample office and the README says Scan and Overlay are disabled there. To rebuild your own room you need Node.js 22.12+ with npm commands, Python 3 with Pillow (plus NumPy and Open3D for depth), an AI coding assistant, and for the capture app a Mac with Xcode and an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR.","costNote":"The code and the skill are MIT. The reconstruction is done by an AI coding assistant, which usually needs a paid plan or API use; the office images and textures have separate terms in ASSETS-LICENSE.md.","notVerified":["How close the rebuilt scene gets to a real room, and how many agent rounds it takes.","Whether the iPhone app builds and runs on a current Xcode and iOS version.","How much AI usage a full reconstruction consumes.","Real disk use for scans, photos and textures of your own rooms.","What the agent-browser CLI used by the capture scripts does."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVAzMMQ","slug":"wheresryan22__anatomy","name":"Anatomy","owner":"wheresryan22","fullName":"wheresryan22/anatomy","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"23369 stars in 23 days","source":"check"},{"code":"asks_you_to_loosen_your_agents_sandbox","severity":"attention","evidence":"README, \"Codex: if the browser checks are blocked\": the skill \"checks its own figures by starting headless Chrome, which writes a temporary profile and talks to it over a local port\", and when Codex's sandbox stops that it suggests approving commands outside the sandbox, or a config with `sandbox_mode = \"workspace-write\"`, `network_access = true` and `writable_roots = [\"/tmp\"]`, or starting Codex with `--sandbox danger-full-access`, which it admits \"lifts every limit for that session\". It also notes the figure is still built without the checks.","source":"ai"},{"code":"the_install_copies_the_whole_repository_and_wants_newer_node","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"With the skills CLI\": \"The CLI copies the whole repository, examples included (about 10 MB). It needs a recent Node.js: version 1.7.1 of the CLI asks for 22.20 or later\" — above the Node 20.10+ the requirements table and the README badge state. The install command also runs a separate project, the `skills` CLI from vercel-labs, straight from npm.","source":"ai"},{"code":"each_figure_is_a_long_paid_session","severity":"info","evidence":"README, Limits: \"It is slow on purpose. A figure takes a long session: the parts list, the geometry, the audit, and close-ups of every joint in both themes. The Raptor's build takes a few minutes, and a full 3D orbit audit takes 15 to 20 minutes for 30 parts.\" The skill also \"tells Claude to read every PNG it makes\", so the assistant works through many images, which is what you pay for.","source":"ai"},{"code":"sharing_a_figure_opens_a_pull_request_in_your_name","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"Share a figure\": asking the agent to publish \"asks for a title and your GitHub name, shows what it will send, and after your yes opens a pull request on anatomy-community for you\". It only happens when you ask, and it shows the content first, but the result is a public post carrying your GitHub name.","source":"ai"},{"code":"3d_mode_is_beta_and_heavy","severity":"info","evidence":"README note: \"The 3D mode is beta. It is proved on its example and one test figure, not yet on a production figure. A small 3D figure runs at 60 fps; the 380-part stress hand measured about 20 fps at 1440 px wide and 13 to 15 fps on a throttled phone profile\". The kit folder also lists turn-fixed.mjs, canvas-painter.mjs and gl-shared.mjs as \"experimental variants, not yet documented or used by the examples\".","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node","other"],"buildTools":[],"disk":{"minMB":null,"maxMB":null,"basis":"unknown"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["ai_skills","image","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"illustrator","name":"Illustrator","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":23364,"downloads":2420,"downloadsWeek":670,"downloadsDays":6,"growth":2719,"growthDays":6,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","stars":20645},{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":21075},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":21463},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":22116},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":22622},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":23031},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":23364}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T23:19:32.648Z","commitSha":"1482e8469b0a9e0d8cc18ea2740a01423d29ae80","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:48:37.805Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-18T20:20:24Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"An add-on for Claude Code and similar AI assistants that draws interactive isometric figures of machines as web pages.","summary":"Anatomy is a skill you install inside an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, and also Antigravity, OpenCode, Codex and MiniMax Code). You ask it to explain an idea and it invents a machine whose working is that idea, then builds it as an isometric drawing in SVG, optionally with WebGL effects such as flame or water, as a standalone HTML page, a single SVG or React components you keep. It needs Node.js 20.10+ and Chrome for its own checks, and no API keys of its own. The author is clear that it is not a chart or diagram tool and does not draw people or maps.","easeRationale":"The same on Windows, macOS and Linux: you must already have one of the AI coding assistants, then install Node.js and run one command, `npx skills add wheresryan22/anatomy -g`, or copy the folder in by hand with git or a ZIP; Chrome or Chromium also has to be present for the skill's own picture checks. After that it is a `/anatomy` command typed into the assistant, with no window of its own.","costNote":"The skill itself is free and MIT-licensed, with \"No API keys and nothing to npm install\". What costs money is the AI assistant that runs it: Claude Code or one of the other agents, on a paid plan or API credits, for sessions the README says are long on purpose.","notVerified":["Whether your own request produces a figure as good as the examples in the gallery","How much a single figure costs in AI assistant usage, since the sessions are long by design","Whether the headless Chrome checks work on your machine, especially on Windows or inside a sandboxed agent","Disk use: the README says the install copies about 10 MB, which the automatic check could not measure","How 23369 stars in 23 days were gathered, and how the project behaves once the first attention passes"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVShyNw","slug":"xevrion__hatchzip","name":"HatchZip","owner":"xevrion","fullName":"xevrion/hatchzip","type":"ready_app","status":"active","grade":"A","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"A","mac":"A","linux":"A"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"very_young_project_fast_releases","severity":"attention","evidence":"The repository was created on 2026-10-21 and already has 9 releases, the latest being v0.1.8 on 2026-10-28, and Cargo.toml says version = \"0.1.8\". A tool that deletes your archive while reading it is still at an early 0.1.x stage.","source":"ai"},{"code":"deletes_the_archive_while_extracting","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"HatchZip destroys the archive as it extracts\" and \"When the extraction is complete, the archive has been removed and the files are in the output folder.\" If something goes wrong in the middle, the archive is partly gone: \"if the download itself is damaged, the files before the damaged spot are extracted and the archive is partly gone.\" Keeping the archive needs the --keep-archive option or the setting in the app.","source":"ai"},{"code":"progress_files_must_not_be_deleted","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: progress lives in \"game.zip.hatchzip\" and \"game.zip.hatchzip-tail\" next to the archive, and \"Do not delete them while an extraction is unfinished: they hold the archive's index, which is no longer inside the archive itself.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"not_code_signed_antivirus_flags","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"The Windows installers and the macOS apps are not code-signed yet\", and \"On VirusTotal, the v0.1.3 Windows setup is flagged by 4 of 70 engines, all heuristic or machine-learning scores; Microsoft Defender reports it clean.\" The project offers SHA-256 files and \"gh attestation verify\" to check a download.","source":"ai"},{"code":"written_with_ai_assistants","severity":"info","evidence":"README section \"How it is built\": \"HatchZip is written with the help of AI coding assistants, and AGENTS.md is the rulebook they work under.\" It also claims more than 130 tests on Linux, macOS and Windows, which we did not run.","source":"ai"},{"code":"copycat_download_sites","severity":"info","evidence":"README: \"HatchZip is only distributed from this repository's releases and its site, hatchzip.dev. Other sites using the name, such as hatchzip.com, are not affiliated with this project.\"","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["rust"],"disk":{"minMB":9,"maxMB":28,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"Apache-2.0","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["system","productivity"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"winrar","name":"WinRAR","confirmed":true},{"slug":"winzip","name":"WinZip","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":2385,"downloads":19021,"downloadsWeek":4552,"downloadsDays":4,"growth":209,"growthDays":4,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":2176},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":2267},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":2315},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":2355},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":2385}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:28.100Z","commitSha":"50fa69c1e8b73f53d7b0cc592c303c66fd7ad8c5","verifiedAt":"2026-10-31T02:01:16.240Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-30T08:19:25Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Opens ZIP, 7z, RAR and tar archives without needing room for the archive and the extracted files at the same time.","summary":"HatchZip is a free archive extractor with a desktop app and a command line tool. It opens ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar and split archives and extracts them in place: the archive file shrinks as the files come out, so you only need free space for the extracted files, not for both. It helps when a large download will not fit on an almost full disk. It checks that the plan fits before changing anything and can carry on after a crash. When it finishes, the archive is gone, unless you pick the option that keeps it. There are installers for Windows, macOS and Linux.","easeRationale":"All three platforms are A because release v0.1.8 has ready installers: HatchZip-x64-setup.exe or HatchZip-x64.msi for Windows, HatchZip-aarch64.dmg and HatchZip-x86_64.dmg for macOS, and hatchzip_amd64.deb, hatchzip-x86_64.rpm or HatchZip-x86_64.AppImage for Linux, with nothing else to install. The files are not code-signed yet, so on Windows you have to click \"More info\" then \"Run anyway\", and on macOS 15 and later you open the app once and then allow it in System Settings, Privacy & Security.","costNote":"Free and open source, under the MIT or the Apache-2.0 licence at your choice. RAR reading in the release builds uses the UnRAR source under its own freeware licence.","notVerified":["Whether extracting in place really frees space on your own disk: the README says hole punching on NTFS and APFS is \"not yet verified\".","Whether a crash, a power cut or Ctrl+C always resumes with every file intact, as described.","The speed and space figures in the README, which were measured only on the author's Fedora machine.","Whether your antivirus will block the unsigned installer.","What happens to a damaged archive you cannot download again if you do not use --verify-first.","The real disk space used: the checks estimate 9 to 28 MB for the installers."]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkzMTEzMTU3MzE=","slug":"xtls__xray-core","name":"Xray","owner":"XTLS","fullName":"XTLS/Xray-core","type":"dev_tool","status":"active","grade":"D","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"D","mac":"D","linux":"D"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"proxy_tool_restricted_in_some_countries","severity":"attention","evidence":"The repository's own topics are \"anticensorship, dns, network, proxy, reality, shadowsocks, socks5, tls, trojan, tunnel, utls, vision, vless, vmess, vpn, wireguard, xhttp, xray, xtls, xudp\" and the description is \"Xray, Penetrates Everything\". The README's tutorial list includes \"XTLS-Iran-Reality\" and \"Xray REALITY with 'steal oneself'\", and it runs Telegram channels in Russian and Persian. These protocols are built to hide traffic from network filtering, and running or distributing such tools is restricted or forbidden in some countries, so the legal position depends on where you are.","source":"ai"},{"code":"needs_a_server_and_a_config_file_you_write","severity":"info","evidence":"The README has no configuration section of its own: under \"Usage\" it only links to example repositories such as https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-examples and to third-party tutorials. The release zips contain the xray program and nothing else, so it does nothing until you supply a JSON config and the address of a server you rent or run.","source":"ai"},{"code":"traffic_passes_through_whoever_owns_the_server","severity":"attention","evidence":"The program's whole job is to carry your connection to a remote server. Whoever runs that server sees the traffic, and the README is about protocols and panels, saying nothing about who operates the servers people use. Its sponsor banners include a commercial VPN link (BlancVPN, blanc.link).","source":"ai"},{"code":"windows_zip_bundles_a_closed_source_driver","severity":"info","evidence":"README, \"Bundled Third-Party Components Redistribution\": \"This distribution contains unmodified official precompiled and pre-signed Wintun binaries\" (wintun.dll), under the \"Prebuilt Binaries License (PBL)\", included in the Windows 32, 64 and arm64 packages. That part is not open source and is loaded at run time for the TUN feature.","source":"ai"},{"code":"crypto_donations_and_nfts_in_readme","severity":"info","evidence":"The README's \"Donation & NFTs\" section lists wallet addresses for TRX/USDT/USDC, TON, BTC, XMR, SOL and ETH and sells \"Project X NFT\" items on OpenSea. Nothing in the program requires paying, but the project's funding is asked for in crypto, which leaves no trace of who received it.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["go"],"disk":{"minMB":16,"maxMB":48,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"MPL-2.0","category":"copyleft","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["network","development"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"surge","name":"Surge","confirmed":true},{"slug":"proxifier","name":"Proxifier","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":42525,"downloads":47662601,"downloadsWeek":428079,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":178,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":42347},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":42386},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":42411},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":42446},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":42492},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":42525}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.705Z","commitSha":"a4a3dff5b20c2faae567b742c172c7b95e75c083","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:39:36.568Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-10-31T13:20:19Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"The engine inside many proxy and VPN apps: a command-line program that routes your traffic through a server you run.","summary":"Xray-core is the connection engine that dozens of proxy apps use. It speaks protocols such as VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, REALITY and WireGuard, and it is meant to carry traffic past network filtering. The downloads are a single command-line file for Windows, macOS and Linux, with no window and no server included: you write a JSON configuration by hand and point it at a server you rent or run yourself. It is aimed at technical users and at the people who build the client apps; everyone else usually installs one of the graphical clients listed in the README instead.","easeRationale":"Every release has a ready 14 to 16 MB zip for Windows, macOS and Linux, but the file inside is a terminal program with no window, and the README gives no end-user setup: for configuration it links to other repositories (XTLS/Xray-examples) and to the official website, and for installation it points to third-party scripts, Docker images and web panels. Linux is the best served of the three because the project ships an official install script and Docker image, and macOS has `brew install xray`, yet on all three you still have to write a JSON configuration and have your own server before anything connects.","costNote":"The program costs nothing and the code is MPL-2.0. The server it connects to is a separate expense: you rent it or host it yourself. 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The last commit was 2026-02-12.","source":"ai"},{"code":"a_large_backlog_on_a_closed_line","severity":"info","evidence":"Project facts: 2055 open issues, on a line the maintainers say accepts only security fixes.","source":"ai"},{"code":"sponsor_logos_with_tracking_links","severity":"info","evidence":"The README 'Gold sponsors' table links Doppler and WorkOS through campaign URLs such as 'https://www.doppler.com/?utm_campaign=github_repo&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=yarn&utm_source=github'; both are paid commercial services.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":["node"],"buildTools":["node"],"disk":{"minMB":2,"maxMB":5,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":[],"cost":{"model":"free"},"license":{"spdx":"BSD-2-Clause","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"file"},"categories":["development"],"alternativeTo":[],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":41466,"downloads":272196225,"downloadsWeek":472809,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":0,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":41470},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":41467},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":41465},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":41468},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":41466},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":41466}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.706Z","commitSha":"c2dda503f3759b5be5f0e24ecd9cf5c97a540147","verifiedAt":"2026-10-29T01:43:04.794Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-02-12T04:44:38Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"The classic 1.x version of Yarn, the tool programmers use to download and lock the JavaScript libraries a project needs.","summary":"Yarn is a package manager for JavaScript projects: it downloads the libraries a project depends on, writes a lock file so everyone installs exactly the same versions, caches what it fetched so it works offline, and checks each package against a checksum. This repository is the old 1.x line. Its own README says the line is frozen, that new work happens in the yarnpkg/berry repository, and that users who hit bugs should move to the newer releases. It is for programmers; you need Node.js and you use it from a terminal.","easeRationale":"On all three you first install Node.js and then install Yarn and use it by typing commands. Windows has a 2 MB .msi and Linux has .deb and .rpm packages in the last release; macOS has no file in the releases and is covered only by the install guide on the project website.","notVerified":["Whether the old dependencies still install cleanly on current Node.js versions","Whether security fixes are still being published, given the last release was in March 2024","What the unreleased 1.23.0-0 code in the repository changes compared with 1.22.22","How the macOS install path behaves, since no macOS file ships in the releases","Real disk use after the package cache grows on a working machine"]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOUns_9A","slug":"yetone__magpie","name":"Magpie","owner":"yetone","fullName":"yetone/magpie","type":"needs_setup","status":"active","grade":"B","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"B","mac":"B","linux":"C"},"risk":"attention","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"26968 stars in 38 days","source":"check"},{"code":"serves_your_subscription_to_other_programs","severity":"attention","evidence":"README 'Subscriptions': 'Codex / ChatGPT: your ChatGPT plan's models, in every other agent', plus 'Add several accounts per subscription and magpie fails over between them' and a 'Daily warm-up' that 'starts each Claude and ChatGPT account's 5-hour window at the times you choose'. Each vendor's own terms decide whether a plan may be used this way and through several accounts.","source":"ai"},{"code":"reads_sign_ins_from_your_computer","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: 'magpie finds the subscriptions your agents are signed in to by reading their sign-ins (Claude Code's and Codex's files, the Keychain).' It can be stopped with 'Settings → Privacy → Subscription accounts' or 'magpie accounts discovery off'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"install_pipes_remote_script_to_shell","severity":"attention","evidence":"README quick start: 'curl -fsSL https://usemagpie.ai/install.sh | sh', and the small print says that on Linux without WebKitGTK 4.1 the script installs it 'with your package manager (sudo asks for your password)'.","source":"ai"},{"code":"plugins_see_every_request","severity":"attention","evidence":"README 'Plugins': plugins are installed from npm ('magpie plugin add opencode-gemini-auth') and 'run on Bun, downloaded the first time one needs it'. A plugin can also be 'gateway middleware: JavaScript that sees what every agent sends and gets back', able to rewrite or refuse a request.","source":"ai"},{"code":"telemetry_on_by_default","severity":"attention","evidence":"README 'Privacy': 'Once a day a released magpie tells us it is in use: a random id, its version and system, and which agents, providers and models it is used with.' It is turned off in Settings → Privacy or with DO_NOT_TRACK=1. Partner links go through 'usemagpie.ai/go/…, which counts the click', and icons are fetched through usemagpie.ai/api/icon.","source":"ai"},{"code":"paid_partners_shown_first","severity":"info","evidence":"The README has a Sponsors row (APINEBULA, 零词元, Kimi, APIKEY.FAN, WandAPI, AIGoCode) and the privacy section counts, 'for each partner listed first in the add sheet, how many times a day it was shown, opened and added', so the provider list inside the app puts partners first.","source":"ai"},{"code":"secret_masking_is_off_until_you_turn_it_on","severity":"info","evidence":"README: 'once you turn masking on in Settings → Privacy (it's off by default), keys, passwords and emails in a prompt are masked on your computer before the request leaves it'. The optional local detection model is 'a 1.6 GB download, on the CPU'.","source":"ai"}],"platforms":["windows","mac","linux"],"tools":[],"buildTools":["docker","go"],"disk":{"minMB":72,"maxMB":215,"basis":"installer"},"apiKeys":["At least one model provider key or signed-in subscription","OpenAI","Anthropic","Google Gemini"],"cost":{"model":"free_with_paid_api"},"license":{"spdx":"MIT","category":"permissive","detectedFrom":"github"},"categories":["development","ai_agents"],"alternativeTo":[{"slug":"openrouter","name":"OpenRouter","confirmed":true},{"slug":"portkey","name":"Portkey","confirmed":true}],"declaredAlternatives":[],"stars":26956,"downloads":114407,"downloadsWeek":55838,"downloadsDays":5,"growth":4352,"growthDays":5,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","stars":22604},{"date":"2026-10-27","stars":23615},{"date":"2026-10-28","stars":24582},{"date":"2026-10-29","stars":25396},{"date":"2026-10-30","stars":26276},{"date":"2026-10-31","stars":26956}],"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T01:10:12.707Z","commitSha":"fa4704f06086898dba6b7bbe6ade5fb4853de06f","verifiedAt":"2026-11-01T01:49:03.396Z","lastCommitAt":"2026-11-01T01:14:11Z","isMirror":false,"collectFailing":false,"reviewedBy":"ai","text":{"en":{"summaryShort":"Choose which AI model each coding agent uses, from the menu bar, through one local gateway for all your keys.","summary":"magpie is a small app plus a local gateway that decides which AI model each of your coding agents talks to, so Claude Code can run on Kimi or Codex on DeepSeek. You add provider keys, or the subscriptions your agents are already signed in to, and magpie rewrites each agent's own config and routes the requests through 127.0.0.1:3425. It can move to your next account when a quota runs out, show tokens and cost, mask secrets inside prompts, and run on a server with Docker. It is for people juggling several agents, providers or accounts.","easeRationale":"macOS and Windows are a B: each release has a ready .dmg and .exe (the README says Mac builds are signed and notarised and update themselves), and the one extra step is adding a provider key or signing in. Linux is a C, because the install script may first install WebKitGTK through your package manager with sudo, or fall back to the terminal build.","costNote":"The app is free (MIT). It routes to model providers and plans you pay for yourself; it can also point at local models through Ollama or LM Studio.","notVerified":["Whether each listed agent and provider works in practice","Whether a vendor blocks or closes an account used this way","How well the masking rules catch secrets in real prompts, and what they miss","What the npm plugins you add do with the requests they see","What you spend across the providers and plans it routes to"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkzMDcyNjAyMDU=","slug":"yt-dlp__yt-dlp","name":"yt-dlp","owner":"yt-dlp","fullName":"yt-dlp/yt-dlp","type":"needs_setup","status":"alert","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"downloading_may_be_restricted_where_you_live","severity":"attention","evidence":"The program's job is to pull media off sites that do not offer a download button, and the README describes working around site defences: \"pycryptodomex - For decrypting AES-128 HLS streams and various other data\", \"--impersonate CLIENT[:OS] Client to impersonate for requests\" for \"sites that employ TLS fingerprinting\", \"--xff VALUE How to fake X-Forwarded-For HTTP header to try bypassing geographic restriction\", and a JavaScript runtime \"Required for full YouTube support\". Saving a copy can break a site's terms of use, and in some countries working around a technical protection is itself against the law.","source":"ai"},{"code":"unverified_updates_from_other_repositories","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md (UPDATE): \"You may also use `--update-to <repository>` ... Be careful with what repository you are updating to though, there is no verification done for binaries from different repositories.\" The normal `-U` update stays on the official channel.","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_read_browser_cookies","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md (DEPENDENCIES): \"secretstorage - For `--cookies-from-browser` to access the Gnome keyring while decrypting cookies of Chromium-based browsers on Linux\". The program can read your browser's saved logins when you use that option.","source":"ai"},{"code":"binary_license_differs_from_repository","severity":"info","evidence":"README.md (Licensing): \"the PyInstaller-bundled executables include GPLv3+ licensed code, and as such the combined work is licensed under GPLv3+\", while the repository itself is Unlicense.","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_fetch_code_at_run_time","severity":"info","evidence":"README option `--remote-components COMPONENT`: \"Remote components to allow yt-dlp to fetch when required ... ejs:npm (external JavaScript components from npm), ejs:github\". 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It can pick the quality, download whole playlists, subtitles and thumbnails, and turn videos into audio files such as MP3. There is no window with buttons: you type commands in a terminal. Windows, Mac and Linux each get a ready single-file program. For the best quality you also need ffmpeg, and full YouTube support needs a JavaScript runtime such as Deno.","easeRationale":"On Windows there is a ready single file (yt-dlp.exe), but it has no graphical window, you use it by typing commands, and the README strongly recommends also installing ffmpeg and a JavaScript runtime such as Deno. Mac gets the same kind of single file; on Linux the recommended download is a small file that needs Python already installed.","costNote":"Free. The code is public domain (Unlicense); the ready Windows, Mac and Linux programs include GPLv3+ code, so those files are under GPLv3+.","notVerified":["Whether the current stable release still works with YouTube and other sites on the day you use it; the README says stable is \"often stale and prone to external breakage\" and recommends the nightly channel","Whether downloading from a given site is allowed by that site's terms or by the copyright law where you live","Which sites need ffmpeg or a JavaScript runtime in practice, and how much disk space they add","Whether Windows or antivirus software warns about the single-file yt-dlp.exe"]}}},{"id":"MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMDM5NTIw","slug":"ytdl-org__youtube-dl","name":"youtube-dl","owner":"ytdl-org","fullName":"ytdl-org/youtube-dl","type":"dev_tool","status":"alert","grade":"C","easeByPlatform":{"windows":"C","mac":"C","linux":"C"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"stale_releases","severity":"attention","evidence":"Last release on 2021-12-16 (1778 days ago)","source":"check"},{"code":"bypasses_site_restrictions","severity":"attention","evidence":"README OPTIONS: \"--geo-bypass  Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header\" and \"--geo-bypass-country CODE\". The cache section says \"only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached\", so the program works around YouTube's scrambled video addresses, and the Adobe Pass options (\"--ap-mso MSO\", \"--ap-username\", \"--ap-password\") sign in with a pay-TV provider account to reach its video. Saving video this way goes against the terms of most video sites, and in some countries getting around a technical restriction like this is against the law on its own.","source":"ai"},{"code":"no_release_since_2021","severity":"attention","evidence":"The latest GitHub release is 2021.12.17 (published 2021-12-16) and the last commit was 2025-11-26, 337 days before this check. Video sites change often, so the released youtube-dl.exe may no longer work with them.","source":"ai"},{"code":"downloads_installed_from_vendor_site_not_github","severity":"info","evidence":"README INSTALLATION tells UNIX users to run \"sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl\" and Windows users to fetch https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe, so the file comes from yt-dl.org rather than from this repository's releases. The program also has a built-in \"-U, --update  Update this program to latest version\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"can_run_commands_on_downloaded_files","severity":"info","evidence":"README post-processing options: \"--exec CMD  Execute a command on the file after downloading and post-processing\", and settings can come from a configuration file (~/.config/youtube-dl/config or %APPDATA%\\youtube-dl\\config.txt) that youtube-dl reads automatically unless you pass --ignore-config.","source":"ai"},{"code":"stores_account_passwords_in_a_file","severity":"info","evidence":"README: credentials for sites can be kept in a .netrc file in your home folder in plain text, in the form \"machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password\".","source":"ai"},{"code":"possible_illegal_use","severity":"high","evidence":"The program works around the video sites' own restrictions. README OPTIONS, Geo Restriction: \"--geo-bypass                         Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header\" and \"--geo-bypass-country CODE            Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code\". README --cache-dir: \"At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached\", so it handles YouTube's scrambled video addresses. README Adobe Pass Options: \"--ap-mso MSO                         Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV provider) identifier\", \"--ap-username USERNAME\" and \"--ap-password PASSWORD\", which sign in with a pay-TV account to reach its video. 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You type a command with the video link, and it saves the file; it can also download whole playlists, pick a quality or keep only the audio. It has no windows or buttons, so it suits people comfortable with a terminal. On Windows there is a single .exe file; converting or merging formats needs ffmpeg. The last GitHub release is from December 2021, so it may not work with sites that changed since then.","easeRationale":"Windows is the shortest path and sets the grade: the release is a single 8 MB youtube-dl.exe that you place in a folder on your PATH and then drive by typing commands. Mac (brew install youtube-dl) and Linux (a sudo curl command into /usr/local/bin) take one terminal step more. On every system you also need ffmpeg to pull out audio or merge video and sound.","costNote":"Released to the public domain (Unlicense).","notVerified":["Whether it still downloads from YouTube and other major sites today.","Whether the yt-dl.org download links in the README still work and are still run by the project.","Whether the 2021 Windows .exe runs on current Windows without extra system files.","Whether downloading a given video is allowed by that site's terms or by the law where you live.","Whether the built-in --update command still finds a newer version."]}}},{"id":"R_kgDOVN7flQ","slug":"zagitta__gpu-unlock","name":"GPU Unlock","owner":"Zagitta","fullName":"Zagitta/gpu-unlock","type":"needs_setup","status":"alert","grade":"E","easeByPlatform":{"linux":"E"},"risk":"high","signals":[{"code":"young_repo_many_stars","severity":"attention","evidence":"11390 stars in 10 days","source":"check"},{"code":"no_license","severity":"info","evidence":"No license detected by GitHub, the license file, the LICENSES folder or the winget manifest","source":"check"},{"code":"vendor_firmware_lock_bypass","severity":"high","evidence":"This is the project's purpose. README: it \"combines the cmpunlocker's V67/PLM technique with the pre-driver timing of the UEFI approach\" and writes the speed selectors \"SS0 0x88888888\" and \"SS1 0x8\" before the NVIDIA driver binds; the FAQ says NVIDIA capped the cards for \"Market segmentation\". Removing a limit the maker built into the card goes against NVIDIA's terms and can count as circumventing a technical protection, which is restricted in some countries.","source":"ai"},{"code":"fake_installers_and_coins_circulating","severity":"attention","evidence":"FAQ: \"Do you have a website/coin/installer? A: No this is the one and only OG source for gpu-unlock. Crypto, websites, installers and what else is not associated with this project or the developer in any way shape or form.\" And about Windows: \"There are windows installer's floating around but I would recommend being ++very++ careful with those.\"","source":"ai"},{"code":"hardware_instability_risk","severity":"attention","evidence":"README: \"If the firmware on a card never stops, the module logs it and keeps the DMA buffers that firmware may still use until the next power off. Power off before trying again.\" The display card's \"screen is blank from that reset until nvidia-drm takes over\". 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It can also look up birthday party slots and the campaign calendar. It works only with McDonald's China: you need a free token from open.mcd.cn (sign-in by Chinese phone number) and Python 3.9. 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The README offers a prompt so the assistant can walk you through it, but Apple login, device trust, developer mode and signing still have to be done by hand.","costNote":"The code is free (MIT), but it only works inside a paid AI assistant such as Codex, WorkBuddy or Doubao.","notVerified":["Whether the WebDriverAgent build and signing really completes with a free or personal Apple account, and on which iOS versions","Whether the live screen preview and the taps work as described on each iPhone model","What exactly is sent to PostHog and GA4 while you use it, and whether the off switch stops all of it","How much disk space the full Xcode plus the WDA build take on the Mac","The cost of the AI assistant tokens consumed by long phone tasks"]}}}]}