Brud Code
Your clipboard is the API key: free AI coding agent
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Details
- External ID
- 1275316
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Brud Code
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
Most AI coding agents need a paid subscription or API key. Brud Code doesn't. Use the free web tiers of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini (or local Ollama models) as an agent inside VS Code. Paste the AI's instructions and Brud previews the diff, applies multi-file edits, runs commands with live terminal output, and lets you roll back with local snapshots. 100% free and open source. No subscription, no API key. You shouldn't have to code slowly just because you can't afford an API key.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ai coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- free ai coding agent powered by clipboard sharing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard VS Code extension that reads clipboard text or local diffs, invokes standard terminal executions, and leverages the VS Code WorkspaceEdit API.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 366 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #218 of 367 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Joxo · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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