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🕸️Magnitude

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Open source agent with local models built in. Fully private and offline. Works out of the box on any hardware.

⭐ Emerging: 944 stars, gaining about 103 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2026 launched this year
delivery product
language TypeScript
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 944
stars added last week +103
HN peak 179 pts 1y 3mo ago
binary downloads 183 total · GitHub releases
commits / week 60 accelerating · +100% vs prior mo
contributors 5 (+2 in 15d)
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Y Combinator
openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 63% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average -161/mo (-5%/mo) · -2k total since PR#12

why it's a big deal

  • Magnitude is a coding agent that runs entirely on open models, aimed at developers who want agentic coding without paying frontier model prices.
  • It targets the cost side of AI-assisted coding, offering API pricing with no markup and $5 of free credits to start with no card required.
  • For teams, it offers self-hosted open models, tailored model setups, and shared billing with spend limits and admin tools.

under the hood

  • Built-in model routing directs work across open models to hold down cost while maintaining performance, per the README.
  • It is distributed as a TypeScript CLI installed globally via npm as @magnitudedev/cli and invoked with the magnitude command.
  • The agent authenticates against an API key from app.magnitude.dev, and on Windows it requires WSL.

Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources

star history

PR#12 · 3k944 now Jul 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#12 3k 2025-07-09
  2. now 944 -2k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.

+19 understory score output 26 · clout 7
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#12 2025-07-09 below the radar

    Vision-Based AI Browser Automation

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