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From:
David Uhden Collado <daviduhden@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)
To:
ports@openbsd.org, ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org, didickman@gmail.com
Date:
Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:44:00 +0000

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Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> 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
> 
On the other hand, Anthropic has embedded spyware-like code in Claude 
that secretly targets Chinese users.

https://nitter.net/IntCyberDigest/status/2071971609183678544
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/67120
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/72518