Alishahryar1/free-claude-code
Use claude-code for free in the terminal, VSCode extension or discord like OpenClaw (voice supported)
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Use claude-code for free in the terminal, VSCode extension or discord like OpenClaw (voice supported)
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Free Claude Code: Run It in Terminal, VSCode, or Discord
Claude Code hit 20k stars after someone open-sourced it. Here's what you actually get.
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Maigret: The OSINT Tool Your Research Agent Is Missing
Query 3,000+ sites from one username. Build a full dossier in seconds.
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UI-TARS: Build Desktop AI Agents With Any LLM
ByteDance's open-source desktop agent that sees your screen and actually does things.
FinceptTerminal is a modern finance application offering advanced market analytics, investment research, and economic da...
Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that...
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
The access barrier is gone. Every tool that used to cost $50–$500/month now has a GitHub repo trying to kill it. Some of these are rough. Some are genuinely better. Here's what dropped on my radar this week — ranked by how much they threaten the paid incumbents.
If you've been paying for Claude Pro just to use Claude Code in your terminal, stop. free-claude-code routes Claude Code through third-party API providers that offer the same underlying models at a fraction of Anthropic's direct pricing — or free tiers that actually work.
The setup takes about 10 minutes. You point the Claude Code CLI at a different API endpoint and you're done. Same interface, same coding agent, different bill at the end of the month.
The catch: you're dependent on whoever's proxying the API staying online. This isn't enterprise-grade reliability. But for side projects, personal automation, and learning? You're not paying $20/month for a hobby. This one's the highest-impact tool on the list for anyone already in the Claude ecosystem.
Bloomberg Terminal costs roughly $2,000/month per seat. Most people who need financial data access don't have that budget, and they make do with patchy free tiers across five different sites. FinceptTerminal is a terminal-based financial data platform that pulls macro data, market feeds, and economic indicators into one interface — for free.
It's not Bloomberg. Let's be honest about that. Bloomberg has depth, speed, and institutional integrations that a GitHub repo can't replicate overnight. But for DeFi researchers, crypto traders watching macro conditions, or anyone doing fundamental analysis without institutional backing? FinceptTerminal hits 70% of what you'd actually use Bloomberg for.
The terminal aesthetic also means this runs anywhere — no browser dependency, no SaaS login, no data being sold back to you. For the price of zero, this is remarkable.
Most computer-use agent demos you've seen are cloud-hosted, slow, and billing you per screenshot. cua runs computer-use agents locally, giving an AI the ability to control a virtual machine — open apps, click buttons, fill forms, navigate interfaces — on your own hardware.
This matters more than people realize. Computer-use is the unlock for automating anything that doesn't have an API: legacy software, government portals, tools built in the early 2000s that will never get a webhook. If it's on a screen, an agent can touch it.
The setup requires Docker and some patience. It's not plug-and-play. But the capability is real, and running it locally means your automation isn't going offline when some SaaS decides to reprice their API. This is infrastructure-level stuff dressed up as a GitHub repo.
Paid OSINT tools charge hundreds per month for what maigret does for free: you give it a username and it hunts across 3,000+ websites, social platforms, and services to build a profile of where that account exists.
One command. You get back a report showing every platform where that username appears — useful for brand monitoring, competitive research, due diligence on partners, or just verifying someone is who they say they are before a deal closes.
The legal and ethical framing matters here: maigret searches public information. It's not hacking anything. It's the same information anyone could find manually — compressed from 40 hours of work into 40 seconds. Use it responsibly, and it's one of the most practically useful tools on this list.
Quarkdown is the most niche pick this week, but worth knowing about. It's an extended Markdown language that adds scripting, layout control, and presentation capabilities — think Notion's flexibility but in a format you own, version-control, and export freely.
The paid alternatives here are tools like Notion, Coda, or Confluence — all of which lock your content in their system and charge per seat. Quarkdown outputs to HTML, PDF, or slides. Your content stays yours.
This won't replace a full knowledge management system overnight. But for technical writers, solo builders creating documentation, or anyone who's sick of fighting Notion's export format, it's worth 20 minutes to evaluate. Least flashy tool on the list, most underrated.
Every tool this week follows the same arc: a paid product that assumed it had a moat discovered the moat was "first mover advantage," not "impossible to replicate." Open source caught up.
The configuration gap is still real. Knowing which tool to use, how to set it up, and how to integrate it into your workflow — that's where the value is now. The tools themselves are free. The knowledge isn't.
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