jcode: RAM-Efficient AI Agent Harness Trending Fast (2026)
Every serious coding agent has the same dirty secret: idle it in the background and it chews through RAM like it’s free. I’ve had Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex all parked at once on my Ryzen workstation, and by the end of a long session my memory graph looked like a ski slope. jcode — 14,795 stars and climbing fast at +812 today — is a Rust harness that treats RAM like a budget instead of an unlimited line of credit. Still, the numbers it posts aren’t marketing fluff; I watched them happen live. ...