jcode Publishes Head-to-Head Memory Numbers Against Claude Code — 27.8 MB PSS and a 14ms First Frame, +2,585 Stars This Week

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This Rust agent harness competes explicitly on resource footprint rather than features, claiming 27.8 MB PSS for a single session with local embedding disabled — 13.9× less than Claude Code and 6× less than jcode's own embedding-enabled mode. It reports time-to-first-frame of 14.0 milliseconds against a competitor range of 383–3,436 ms, and 117 MB baseline across ten concurrent sessions. MIT-licensed at 12,148 stars, it connects to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Ollama and LM Studio via OpenAI-compatible endpoints.