Over the years I've gotten extremely conservative with adopting any new tooling into my workflow, for exactly reasons like this.

With labs spending their fundings left and right and vibe-coding, it's absolutely irresponsible to adopt anything less than 18 months old.

Trusts suck

They ruin innovation top down and bottom up at the same time

If you’re looking for an open-source alternative, I’m the creator of woltspace [0], which is a way of coordinating your wolts (coding agents) by letting them talk to each other and giving them a lodge on your machine.

I built it for myself as a dev who loves tmux and vim and who was very unsatisfied with the typical agent orchestration experience. You should check it out! The biggest advantage is you bring your coding agents to woltspace, not the other way around.

[0] https://github.com/jerpint/woltspace

Not tried it yet but DeltaDB from ZED (and ZED editor more generally) could cover it for you and they are open source.

I switched to paseo.sh several months ago. It's just as good if not better.

Western AI giants have hundreds of billions of dollars to make back in a world where China is releasing open source tooling and open weights models. How else does they make their money back other than finding _something_ proprietary to sell.

respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.