magpie – Unified AI Agent Model Manager

• Fact magpie is a single screen that lists each AI agent on your machine and the model it is set to.[1]AImagpie is a single screen that lists each AI agent on your machine and the model it is set to.
• Fact The application is under 15 MB for the desktop and 7 MB for the terminal-only build.[1]AIOne small binary. Under 15 MB with the desktop app (it uses the system webview through Wails, nothing bundled), 7 MB for the terminal-only build.
• Fact magpie edits configuration files surgically, preserving comments and formatting.[1]AIEdits config files surgically. Only the one key you change is touched; comments, ordering and indentation in your settings.json, config.toml, opencode.jsonc or config.yaml survive intact.
• Fact It runs a local gateway that translates OpenAI and Anthropic APIs to vendor-specific endpoints.[1]AImagpie runs a local gateway that speaks OpenAI chat completions, OpenAI Responses and the Anthropic Messages API, and forwards to whichever vendor serves the model.
• Fact Users can sign in to providers once and share the credentials across all agents via the gateway.[1]AISign in to Claude Code, Codex (ChatGPT) or Copilot and that login shows up as a provider: every other agent can use its models through the gateway, with nothing copied and no key to paste.
• Fact The GitHub repository yetone/magpie was created on 23 Sept 2026 and had 4,258 stars on 2 Oct 2026.[1]
• Fact Its description reads: “Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.”[1]
• Fact That is 4,258 stars in 9 days, an average of 466.7 per day.[1]

• Analysis Install magpie to manage agent models, configure provider keys once, and switch models or profiles across agents from a single interface.AI
• Analysis Automatically detected from public activity data. Not yet reviewed by an analyst.

• Fact magpie is a single screen that lists each AI agent on your machine and the model it is set to.[1]AImagpie is a single screen that lists each AI agent on your machine and the model it is set to.
• Fact The application is under 15 MB for the desktop and 7 MB for the terminal-only build.[1]AIOne small binary. Under 15 MB with the desktop app (it uses the system webview through Wails, nothing bundled), 7 MB for the terminal-only build.
• Fact magpie edits configuration files surgically, preserving comments and formatting.[1]AIEdits config files surgically. Only the one key you change is touched; comments, ordering and indentation in your settings.json, config.toml, opencode.jsonc or config.yaml survive intact.
• Fact It runs a local gateway that translates OpenAI and Anthropic APIs to vendor-specific endpoints.[1]AImagpie runs a local gateway that speaks OpenAI chat completions, OpenAI Responses and the Anthropic Messages API, and forwards to whichever vendor serves the model.
• Fact Users can sign in to providers once and share the credentials across all agents via the gateway.[1]AISign in to Claude Code, Codex (ChatGPT) or Copilot and that login shows up as a provider: every other agent can use its models through the gateway, with nothing copied and no key to paste.

Architecture

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Timeline

1. 2 Oct 2026

   First seenFirst seen by the Astrava pipeline[1]

• Fact magpie requires a local installation and configuration of each provider’s key; it does not automatically fetch or store keys from the shell environment.[1]AImagpie never reads keys from your shell environment.
• Analysis Generated from activity metrics only; verify the linked sources before acting on it.

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