The most useful indie tool today is @dchu17's Ctx
The most useful indie tool today is @dchu17's Ctx. The pitch: after yesterday's Claude Code Pro-plan shock sent indie devs switching between agents, everyone lost their context the moment they crossed a tool boundary. Ctx ships a plain Markdown-based "resume" file the user writes once; every major coding agent reads it on load. The 27-comment thread is a tidy catalogue of "I was rebuilding this in a CLAUDE.md and a .codex-prompt and a Cursor rules file, finally someone consolidated it." @dchu17 commits document a two-week build timeline from the first Opus 4.7 token-bloat complaints; the product rode the exact migration wave it was written for.
Ship a Ctx-shaped primitive this weekend — one plain-text config file that every agent reads — for the niche you already use daily (e.g. agent memory for research notes, for AWS ops, for legal drafting); the migration-wave distribution is still open for two more weeks.
"One config file across all agents" is exactly the kind of standard every vendor will quietly break as soon as one of the config files becomes popular — Anthropic adds a proprietary block, Cursor adds a binary side-channel, and the portable config fragments within a quarter.