https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/npm-downloads/Recent content in Npm Downloads on SoloSoftHugoen-usSat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/context-mode-frozen-npm-98-percent-audit/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/context-mode-frozen-npm-98-percent-audit/<p><strong>Context Mode</strong> is the MCP plugin that promises to keep raw tool output out of your context window: 315 KB of tool output becomes 5.4 KB, a <strong>98% reduction</strong>. It has 30,231 stars, it numbers its releases by the hundred, and its README states its philosophy in one blunt paragraph: <em>&ldquo;Nothing leaves your machine. No telemetry, no cloud sync, no usage tracking, no account required&hellip; Context optimization should happen at the source, not in a dashboard behind a per-seat subscription.&rdquo;</em></p> <p>That is the README the 30,231 people starred. Here is the rest of the picture, all measured today rather than quoted:</p>https://www.solosoft.dev/post/rea-star-curve-eight-days-audit/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/rea-star-curve-eight-days-audit/<p>Eight days ago this site published a measured audit of REA — the MCP server that lets a coding agent reverse-engineer anything from an Electron app down to a native binary. The audit put the repository at <strong>15,095 stars, 44 watchers, 1,569 forks</strong>, and priced a real analysis run at 209,619 tokens for eight files.</p> <p>On 2026-10-16, at 00:51 UTC, the same API endpoint returned <strong>270,221 stars, 915 watchers, 67,778 forks</strong>.</p> <p>That is <strong>+255,126 stars, +871 watchers and +66,209 forks in eight days</strong>. Nothing else on GitHub that I have measured moves like this, so this article does the only thing worth doing with a number like that: it measures the curve against a baseline, and separates the parts that are genuinely anomalous from the parts that are just what an agent-era repository looks like in 2026.</p>