A Claude Code toolkit, a Rust terminal agent, and why 97K developers self-host their photos

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ECC (formerly Everything Claude Code) is a big bundle of agents, skills, hooks, MCP configs and security tooling you install into Claude Code through the plugin marketplace. It covers code review, security analysis, planning, per-language reviewers, TDD workflows and even video editing. The repo is MIT licensed. It works best in Claude Code, has a supported Codex sync path, and offers capability-limited adapters for Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini, Zed, Copilot and others, so don't assume parity outside Claude. The bundle grows every release, now dozens of agents and a few hundred skills, and slash commands are being phased out in favor of skills. Install only from the official repo, npm packages or ecc.tools: the README warns third-party mirrors may carry malware. The repo is free. ECC Pro, a hosted GitHub App, is $19 per seat a month or $190 a year and adds private-repo analysis, PR-triggered config audits and deeper AgentShield scanning; Enterprise adds SSO and custom policy packs. Solo devs: install the free bundle and keep what you use. Teams that want automatic config audits on private repos: that's what Pro sells. The catch: that much surface area is a lot to audit. Hooks run automatically on editor events, and pulling in agents and skills you didn't ask for makes your setup harder to reason about. One maintainer ships it weekly across several harnesses, so expect churn.

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claurst is an open source terminal coding agent written in Rust, built to replicate the behavior of Claude Code. It reads files, runs commands, searches codebases, and handles git operations from your terminal. The project was built from behavioral specs, not copied source code. The appeal is obvious: Claude Code is a proprietary tool that costs money. claurst gives you a similar workflow for free (assuming you bring your own API key for whatever model you point it at). Being written in Rust means it starts fast and uses less memory than Node.js-based alternatives. The project grew quickly after the Claude Code source leak sparked interest in how these agents work under the hood. For developers who want a terminal coding agent but do not want to pay for Claude Code, this is the most direct alternative. Aider and Continue are more established options with broader model support and larger communities. claurst is newer and less battle-tested, but the Rust foundation and active development are promising. The catch: this is early-stage software riding a wave of hype. The feature set is thinner than Claude Code, the plugin ecosystem does not exist yet, and you are depending on a solo maintainer. If you need reliability today, the established tools are safer bets.

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CLIProxyAPI turns coding-agent subscriptions you already pay for (ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, Grok Build, Devin, Kimi, Meta's Muse Code) into an OpenAI-, Gemini- and Claude-compatible API you can point other tools at. Log in once per account and it serves those quotas as an endpoint, with round-robin load balancing across multiple accounts. MIT licensed, a Go binary or Docker. Setup is a single binary or docker compose, a config file, and OAuth logins per provider. It stores those tokens on the proxy host and exposes a management API, so lock it down if it ever leaves localhost. Releases ship almost daily, and Gemini CLI support moved into a separate plugin. There's no paid tier; the cost is the subscriptions you proxy, and the risk is those accounts. Anthropic's terms say Claude plan credentials can't be routed through third-party apps, and Google's Antigravity terms call third-party access grounds for suspension. Google already ran a ban wave in February 2026 that also locked people out of Gemini CLI. Use the official APIs for anything in production. The catch: this exists to stretch consumer plans past their intended use, and the README's sponsor wall now advertises residential proxies with one IP per account for multi-account operations. That's account-ban territory, and you're the one holding the account.

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Immich is a self-hosted Google Photos replacement: automatic backup from your phone, a fast timeline, shared albums, a map view, and search by faces, places, objects or plain-language description, with the machine learning running on your own server. AGPL-3.0, and stable since its 2.0 release in October 2025. Docker Compose is the recommended install. Plan for at least 6 GB of RAM (8 recommended) and 2 cores, keep the Postgres database on a local SSD rather than a network share, and budget 10 to 20% extra disk for thumbnails and transcoded video on top of the library itself. Since v3, the machine-learning container needs a newer x86 CPU (x86-64-v2). Every feature is free, and the team has promised nothing will ever go behind a paywall. You can buy a lifetime supporter key ($25 for one user, $100 for a family), and it unlocks no extra features. Solo users and families get the most here. It has multi-user and OAuth login, but it's built for households, not company-wide photo management. The catch: you're now the backup. Follow 3-2-1 (three copies, two kinds of media, one offsite), because a self-hosted photo library with one copy is one dead drive from gone. Major versions also break third-party API integrations, so check your add-ons before upgrading.