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Guillermo Rauch's OSS grants v2 shifts from JS/TS foundations to agent tooling and local inference
Rauch announced 35 $1,000 grants on 2026-09-07, up from 22 in the November 2025 v1 round, and the themes moved decisively off the React/Next ecosystem. Recipients now cover "Postgres tooling for agents," "Fast and accurate file search SDK for agents," "CLI for structural code exploration that agents love," "MCPs for agents to automate popular creative apps," and three separate local-inference engines including "A pure-C engine for running MoE models locally" and "An engine for running large MoE models on Macs." Recipients include Kovid Goyal, Herrington Darkholme (ast-grep), Emil Kowalski and Lars Kappert (knip).
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