🔥 Hot Repo: 3.6M Downloads — One App to Rule Every AI CLI
CC Switch v3.16.1 landed today: the free, open-source desktop manager for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent just hit 87K stars and 3.6 million binary downloads across five releases — and its new Codex Chat Completions proxy is why.
By OMC Editorial on 2026-06-01
One-liner — CC Switch is a free, open-source desktop app that manages provider credentials, MCP servers, prompts, and Skills for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent from a single cross-platform GUI.
- Repo: farion1231/cc-switchhttps://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch
- Stars: ⭐ 87,591 500 today
- Language: Rust / TypeScript Tauri 2
- License: MIT
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What It Does
CC Switch is a cross-platform desktop manager Windows, macOS, Linux for the expanding zoo of AI CLI tools. Instead of hand-editing , , and Gemini credential files, it gives you a GUI to add provider API keys, switch the active provider with one click or from the system tray, and sync MCP servers, system prompts, and Skills extensions across all six supported tools simultaneously.
Why It's Blowing Up
Two forces are driving the star count. First, the AI CLI ecosystem is fragmenting fast — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent each maintain separate credential files, so developers juggling multiple providers face constant manual config surgery. CC Switch is the only unified manager that covers all six at once.
Second, v3.16.0 May 29 and today's v3.16.1 hotfix unlocked a genuinely novel capability: a local proxy that converts Codex's proprietary Responses API format into OpenAI Chat Completions in real time, enabling DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and 18 other Chat-format providers inside Codex with no native support required. The project ships 22 Chat-routing presets covering major Chinese and Asian LLM providers. Today's patch specifically hardened OAuth preservation — some users on v3.16.0 found their official ChatGPT login was being overwritten when switching to third-party Codex providers.
The traction numbers are hard to ignore: the five most recent releases have accumulated 3.6 million binary downloads. v3.14.1 alone pushed nearly 1 million installer downloads before the next major release landed, and v3.16.0 crossed 250K downloads