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

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Give your agent CAD superpowers” is the entire pitch: 17,978 stars say the pitch landed, and the top-half GitHub Trending list — plus a Hacker News thread that hit 186 points on 2026-05-01 — says people believe it. So I installed it, built a real part with it, and measured everything the README does not put a number on.

The short version: this is one of the more disciplined agent-tooling repositories currently shipping (76 releases in 129 days, none without release notes, MIT, byte-determinism as a documented promise), and the interesting part is precisely where its guarantees stop. The project is fanatically rigorous about the layer a machine can check — source into bytes, geometry into verdicts — and silent about the layer where the ambiguity actually lives, which is your sentence about the part you want.

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

affaan-m/ECC is the largest agent-harness project to come out of 2026. It calls itself “the agent harness performance optimization system” and promises skills, instincts, memory, security and research-first development across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini, Zed and a dozen other tools.

The numbers are not small. 272,248 stars, 40,652 forks, 371 contributors, 3,043 commits and 19 releases since the repository was created on 18 January 2026 — an average of 1,051 stars per day and 20 commits per day in the last week, 93 of the newest 100 commits from the maintainer alone. Its npm package has been downloaded 42,491 times in the last 30 days, and its separate security auditor, ecc-agentshield, 46,012 times — the scanner out-downloads the toolkit.

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

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