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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Describe changes and it will edit files. Can commit to Git. Maps your entire Git repo so it can understand large codebases. Can go out to read URLs for additional context. Optimized for Claude, DeepSeek, ChatGPT (o1, GPT-4o), but can also use Ollama locally.

Tradeoffs

Installed through Python pip rather than as a compiled binary.

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