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Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Subject:
Re: [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)
To:
ports@openbsd.org, Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:26:59 +0200

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On July 1, 2026 2:43:16 AM GMT+02:00, Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'd like to import 3 AI coding agents that I've found useful. (Similar to 
>devel/codex which is from OpenAI and is already in the ports tree).
>
>
>(1) devel/claude -- Anthropic's well known coding agent
>
>	This is the latest version that runs on OpenBSD. Newer versions 
>	were moved off npm and are native-only unfortunately. So updating 
>	beyond this version might be harder.
>
>
>(2) devel/crush
>
>	A coding agent with a focus on a good looking
>	terminal UI.
>
>
>(3) devel/swival -- Coding agent for doing security audits
>
>	This has has a few additional dependencies that also need to be 
>	imported below.
>
>    devel/py-litellm -- uniform LLM provider API
>        textproc/py-tiktoken -- fast BPE tokenizer
>    devel/py-mcp -- Model Context Protocol SDK
>    security/py-fast-cipher -- fast AES cipher library
>    textproc/py-rank-bm25 -- BM25 ranking functions
>
>
>One small note is that for swival to be imported we also need to update 
>py-rich to 15.0.0 and mark www/py-flask-limiter BROKEN as a result.
>
>In turn this means we won't be able to build www/py-flask-appbuilder until 
>flask-limiter adds support for rich v15+.
>
>I am ok with that tradeoff (I imported those 2 ports for superset which 
>itself is waiting on support for sqlalchemy 2+ to be rolled out).
>
>ok to import these new ports?
Not a super fan to import something (Claude) that cannot be updated / maintained and may stop functioning in a few months. 
--
Antoine