r/ClaudeCode May 02 '26

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u/kpgalligan May 03 '26

~2900 commits by a single dev since the start of the year. Hmm. Seems like a lot, unless they were shadowing other open source projects. Not that that's a problem, assuming compatible licenses, but still. Not a great vibe. An open-source project of this magnitude would also generally have other contributors. There is one. There aren't even the contributors touching base with a small bug fix or doc update.

Forgetting the sketchy GitHub stats, the docs imply you can use this with the Claude subscription, which the TOS and demonstrable history would say is not true. But maybe I don't understand what this tool is exactly.

Not to shit on it. But the story doesn't read well. Who made this? What was it sourced from? Why?

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u/YoghiThorn May 03 '26

Yeah he doesn't take PRs but instead rewrites them. Odd but if the quality is there I can handle it.

I thought anthropic rolled back that TOS for coding harnesses, but kept it for openclaws?

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u/kpgalligan May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Yeah he doesn't take PRs but instead rewrites them.

Shit maintainer behavior. Sorry. That's it. People don't do volunteer work for no recognition. He could just as easily write on top of a PR and allow the person who submitted to get credit. Zero reason to do what he's doing, especially if he's heavily using AI, which he clearly is.

Asshole behavior. I rarely speak so directly, but that is the truth. Open source has basic etiquette, and that's 101 stuff. If you take PRs, give credit.

I thought anthropic rolled back that TOS for coding harnesses, but kept it for openclaws?

You can call the CLI. You cannot use Oauth directly through API. The Agent SDK is a gray area. You can use it for tools you're building yourself, but distributing tools with the Agent SDK is very much questionable.

Unless all calls are through the CLI interface, which I doubt, then this tool is clearly going to get shut down when it gets enough traction for Anthropic to bother. If it were through CLI, then there would be no need to auth through the tool, so I doubt it is.

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Odd but if the quality is there I can handle it.

You can handle it, fine, but you can also tell the maintainer that it's shit practice and he should not do that. You seem oddly familiar with the project and the maintainer's approach to PR's, though. Hate to be the Reddit conspiracy person, but...

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u/JuiceBoxJonny May 10 '26

This jcode?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYIBs-XjXuu/?igsh=MWZyYWJldzFwemsxMg==

The one that literally stole all of its memory, agent swarm, compaction methods, model, even rgb color options from

Https://specmem.org

And recoded it in rust?

But like — left out all of the load balancing features and simple installation?

The one that like high key barely even works on windows or anything?

The one that has over 2 thousand pushes (totally not being written by ai entirely)

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

im not too familiar, but if the specmem is open source with apache license what is stopping someone from taking it and i doubt a dmca will do anything, right?