Moonshot Cracked Claude Code’s Playbook with an MIT Terminal Agent and a $0.60 Model (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on June 8, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Why this matters right now A Chinese lab just shipped a terminal coding agent that does almost everything Claude Code does, released the entire thing under the MIT license, and pointed it at a model that costs $0.60 per million output tokens. Claude Code’s default model, Opus 4.8, costs $25 for the same million tokens. That is roughly 42 times more expensive on the part ...