Magpie Review: One Menu Bar to Switch Every Agent's Model
Magpie (yetone, MIT, Go, 1.5K stars in 5 days) puts Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and 20 more agents on one local gateway. Setup, routing, limits, FAQ.
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Magpie (yetone, MIT, Go, 1.5K stars in 5 days) puts Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and 20 more agents on one local gateway. Setup, routing, limits, FAQ.
Whiteboard (YC W26, 1.7K stars, MIT) lets Claude Code or Codex draw sequence diagrams, semantic diffs and decision logs that link to code. Setup, limits, FAQ.
SoL-Pi (3.1K stars, MIT) is NVIDIA's opt-in extension for the Pi coding agent: four auto-researched mechanisms that cut tokens 45-49%. Install, config, limits.
Laya review — Apache-2.0 System 1 decision model that answers typed choice, score and yes/no questions in one 33 ms forward pass. Setup, Jev benchmarks, limits.
Reef review — Apache-2.0 infra that turns an inference server into a learner: feedback receipts, weight + harness evolution, gated versioned releases.
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