SMRTR ProgrammingSep 9, 2026Hacker News

MaskShift – a maximalist coding agent with zero NPM dependencies

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MaskShift is a terminal-based coding harness that gives AI models a unified control plane with 149 native tools — covering filesystems, Git, LSP, browsers, containers, databases, SSH, and more. It runs on Node.js 22 with zero npm dependencies, supports any model provider from Ollama to Anthropic, and dynamically inserts only contextually relevant capabilities into the model's context window to avoid flooding it.

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