The Junction Pass — The $0 AI Coding Stack, Wired Right
The companion to the video. OmniRoute (20,685 GitHub stars, MIT) plus OpenCode (187,712 stars, MIT) make a coding stack you own completely — an agent that speaks to 268+ providers through one localhost endpoint, with 90+ free tiers and quota-aware auto-fallback so the 2 A.M. limit wall becomes a route change instead of a session-ender. THIS PASS: the full build on one page (every install command, the one coupling command, the finished opencode.json, and the auto-model trick that exposes the whole routing brain), the Free-Token Map (the biggest documented free tiers — labeled with the project's own 'approximation' caveat — plus the fine print that actually bites: OpenRouter's 50-per-day-until-$10 rule, why web-cookie routes break tool calling, and the 'unlimited' claim the maintainer had to correct), the Ban-Risk Checklist (seven boxes to tick before you connect ANY account, built from real documented bans — issue #649's 'as soon as I imported the token, I got banned', the project's own Stealth Guide warnings, and the disk-filling retry loop — every receipt a clickable link), and the Three-Track decision guide (Clean Start on Zen, Full Junction, or Pro Hybrid) with real Hacker News cost receipts from $0.52 an evening to the $131-of-value-on-a-$20-plan counterpunch. Everything verified against the repos, docs, and GitHub API on July 20, 2026. Independent field notes from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with either project.
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