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  1. Auditing text-to-cad: 17,978 Stars, a Two-Tool MCP Server, and the 822 MB Runtime Behind "CAD Superpowers"

    text-to-cad promises CAD superpowers for coding agents, and at 17,978 stars it is the most visible project in the category. I installed cadgen 0.7.15 and measured what …

    Developer Tools

  2. Auditing OpenReply: 2,544 Stars, Zero Releases, and the Meta Business Verification That Ends the Free Path

    OpenReply open-sources the Instagram comment-to-DM workflow that ManyChat charges a subscription for, and its documentation is unusually honest about the cost. I cloned …

    Open Source

  3. Auditing Strata: 125B on a 12 GB Card, 62 GB/s of RAM Bandwidth, and a 5× Contradiction in the Docs

    Strata claims a 125B model on a 12 GB graphics card. I measured the repository, the physics and the documentation, and the number holds — because the constraint is not …

    AI

  4. Auditing ECC: 68 Agents, 293 Skills, and the 43 Kiro Copies Frozen Five Releases Ago

    ECC is the biggest agent-harness repository of 2026: 272,248 stars, 371 contributors and a 19.5 MB npm artifact. I cloned it at main and verified the headline numbers …

    Open Source

  5. Auditing the Caveman Skill: 109,102 Stars, a 65% Headline, and the 3% Its Own Eval Publishes

    Caveman promises to cut 65% of your agent's tokens. I cloned it at commit 8af1f1b (1,613 files, 19,130,901 bytes), reproduced its committed eval with tiktoken myself and …

    AI

  6. Auditing cursor/plugins: 96 Official Plugins, 9,320 Stars, 2.4% Config — and a CI Gate That Passed an Inline `curl | bash` Hook

    Cursor's official plugin repository ships 96 plugins in 6.09 MiB. I measured all of it: 65.5% of the bytes are images and only 2.4% is machine-readable config, 80 of the …

    Developer Tools