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    Meta's Muse Models Land on Google Cloud; Pichai Welcomes Zuckerberg to Model Garden
    • Three Muse models — Ember, Spark 1.3, and Wonder — enter public preview on Vertex AI Model Garden and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
    • Pichai reply on X: `Congrats and welcome to the model garden, excited to serve our Google Cloud customers!`
    • Managed APIs ship with VPC Service Controls, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, and unified Google Cloud billing.
    • Rollout extends Meta's cross-cloud push already live on AWS SageMaker, Microsoft Foundry, Oracle, and Hugging Face.
    • Google serving a direct frontier-lab rival through its own API is the new signal — not a merger, not a co-dev deal.
    industry cryptobriefing.com

    shadcn/improve Crosses 11k Stars With Audit-Plan-Execute Split
    • Agent skill from shadcn hits 11.1k stars with just 23 commits on main; +361 stars today keeps it on GitHub Trending.
    • Strong model audits the codebase and writes plain-markdown plans; `/improve execute <plan>` dispatches a cheaper executor in a git worktree and reviews its diff.
    • Nine parallel subagent categories: correctness, security, perf, test coverage, tech debt, deps/migrations, DX, docs, direction.
    • Commands include `/improve quick`, `/improve deep`, `/improve branch`, `/improve next`, `/improve reconcile`, and `--issues` to publish plans as GitHub issues.
    • Install with `npx skills add shadcn/improve`; MIT, read-only on source code by design.
    tools github.com

    anthropics/skills Pulls Another +1,032 Stars as Fable 5.2 Wave Holds
    • Public Agent Skills repo returns to the top of GitHub daily trending at 193.3k total stars.
    • anthropics/claude-quickstarts rides the same wave, +430 stars to 20.7k.
    • Marketplace manifest bundles document-skills, example-skills, claude-api, academy-guide, and discernment-nudge.
    • Sustained climb signals Skills format sticking as the default agent packaging standard across Claude, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI.
    open-source github.com

    free-claude-code Hits 68.8k Stars Routing Claude Code to Free Provider Tiers
    • +636 stars today pushes Alishahryar1's local proxy to 68.8k total, 1,248 commits on main.
    • Forwards Claude Code (and Codex, OpenCode) traffic to 61 providers — NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Groq — claiming 1.3B+ free tokens per month.
    • Python 3.14 + FastAPI, AGPL-3.0; explicitly `not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic`.
    • `fcc-claude` launcher is the user-facing escape hatch from paid API keys, with per-provider limits still in force.
    open-source github.com

    experientiallabs/experiential Ships a Zero-Markup BYOK Model Gateway
    • +589 stars today; 16.6k total. OpenAI-compatible router for hosted, BYOK, and local models under Apache-2.0.
    • `exp capture` scrapes traces from Codex and Claude Code desktop apps (macOS, experimental); `exp build` turns those traces into a custom router.
    • `exp optimize model` fine-tunes an open-source model using Tinker; `exp code` runs a coding + cowork agent on Pi.
    • Positions against proprietary gateways with explicit zero-markup pricing and traffic-informed routing.
    tools github.com