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  "tagline": "Open-source agent (VS Code/CLI)",
  "price": "Free and open source (Apache 2.0) · BYO key or pay-as-you-go credits",
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  "what": "An Apache-2.0 autonomous coding agent with roughly 64k GitHub stars, shipping as a VS Code and JetBrains extension, a CLI, an SDK and a web kanban board. Its Plan/Act split makes the agent draft an approach before touching files, and every diff and terminal command needs approval by default.",
  "why": "The transparency pick: you see every diff and every command before it runs, and you pay providers directly with no markup. Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama and 200+ models via OpenRouter, so nothing is locked in.",
  "warn": "BYO-key means costs are unbounded and easy to underestimate — one long agent session on a frontier model can run to several dollars.",
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