I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.
GitHub

Claude Code Skills & Agents Factory

claude-code-skills-factory/ ├── README.md # This file ├── CLAUDE.md # Repository guidance ├── AGENTS.md # Codex CLI documentation (auto-generated) ├── CHANGELOG.md # Version history ├── .claude/ │ ├── ...
SecurityWeek

VS Code Configs Expose GitHub Codespaces to Attacks

Attackers can abuse VS Code configuration files for RCE when a GitHub Codespaces user opens a repository or pull request.
InfoWorld

Beyond NPM: What you need to know about JSR

Here's how the JavaScript Registry evolves makes building, sharing, and using JavaScript packages simpler and more secure ...
PCMag

You Can Now Vibe Code Apple Apps With Claude, OpenAI's Codex

With Xcode 26.3, Apple adds support for two of the most popular agentic AI coding tools after failing to release the ...

Linux users report Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Snap package isn't actually deleting files

Many have run out of disk space entirely ...