FrankenCoder

What nobody else ships.

FrankenCoder isn’t a Cursor competitor. It replaces a stack — and most of what’s in here doesn’t exist in any other AI IDE on the market.

The Moat · blinkLayout

Two chats. 20,549 and 24,102 messages. Both at 100 FPS.

At scale, offsetTop reads in the scroll loop force every content-visibility: auto slot out of skipped state — Blink sweeps all N elements every frame. ~28ms per frame. ~13fps during streaming. Our blinkLayout engine replaces the DOM walk entirely: a Float32Array prefix sum answers viewport queries in O(log N) with zero DOM reads in the hot path. And while all of that is happening, the context summary system is quietly compressing chat history in real time — the agent doesn’t even notice.

400×

streaming headroom at 60fps with a 14k message chat

50,000

message chats benchmarked — held within 60fps budget throughout

800

agent stress test — FPS initially dropped to ~16 on the burst, averaged 30–50 under sustained load

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Web Design · Three Workflows

Live preview that catches every change — yours, your agent’s, or any build tool watching the folder.

Open an HTML file and FrankenCoder splits the view: code on the left, live preview on the right. Every keystroke, every file save, and every agent edit reflects within 150ms — inline HTML, <style> blocks, <script> tags (which actually execute in the preview), linked CSS files, linked JS files, even swapped-out images. For TypeScript, Sass, or Tailwind projects: point your existing build watcher at the folder and the preview picks up its compiled output automatically. It doesn’t run the build step — it catches what the watcher writes to disk. Switch to the visual editor to drag components, reorder sections, and tweak typography, spacing, and colors through a properties panel. Or just tell the agent what you want — it writes to the same file and the preview fires identically.

150ms

keystroke-to-render for inline edits — linked CSS, JS, and images update on save. Scripts execute. No build step, no dev server, no setup.

Visual

drag, drop, and properties panel — edit layout, spacing, colors, and typography without touching the HTML

agent edits land in the preview identically to yours — it writes to the file, the watcher fires, the iframe re-renders

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Local model. 3-stage crackme. 16 minutes. Flag captured.

The RE Agent has 77+ tools wired directly to FrankenCoder’s built-in workbench — hex editor, disassembler, binary analyzer, three decompilers, live debugger. It doesn’t guess. It calls tools. Gemma 4 31B running fully local cracked a three-stage binary, extracted the password from .rodata, traced the license tier check, and generated a full patch strategy. No cloud.

RE Agent hex editor showing flag FR4NK3N_CR4CKM3_PWN3D captured in the ASCII panel

Browser Agent · 33 Tools

A browser that opens itself, runs the task, and shows you everything.

The built-in browser launches automatically the moment the agent calls a browser tool — no Chrome to install, no Playwright config, no external setup. Watch every navigate, click, scroll, and JS evaluation happen live in the panel. If you’re using a vision model, the agent takes screenshots mid-task and analyses what it sees, so it can correct itself without you saying a word.

browser tools — navigate, click, type, scrape, execute JS, network logs, cookies, drag & drop, inject scripts, poll until, and more

Vision

aware — agent screenshots the live page and analyses it with the active vision model, seeing exactly what a user would see

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A Cyber Agent that knows when to call backup.

94 cyber tools driven by a dedicated Cyber Agent — network monitor, packet inspector, pen-test suite, secret scanner, real-time WMI threat watcher. Detect a suspicious binary? The Cyber Agent investigates, then bridges to the RE Agent for decompilation and verdict. Autonomous SOC workflow, inside your editor.

vs. nothing — no other AI IDE ships a SOC console, let alone one with cross-agent handoff

Cyber Agent exposure assessment showing IOC search results and dependency scan verdict

IR-grade forensic containment. One right-click.

When the Cyber Agent flags a file, it doesn't just delete it. It runs it through a full chain-of-custody pipeline: AES-256-GCM defang, multi-hash fingerprinting (SHA-256, SHA-1, MD5, ssdeep), pre-move metadata sidecar, HMAC-chained tamper-evident log, two-person approval gating, and a signed IR bundle export with STIX 2.1 IOC document. The same workflow a SOC analyst would run by hand with a dozen tools, automated into a single operation.

Quarantine Vault · the only IDE that ships chain-of-custody evidence handling

FrankenCoder Quarantine Vault showing sealed entries, stat cards, approval queue, and VirusTotal hash lookup

An intelligence brief while you sleep.

Schedule research across topics you care about — AI models, threats, IPOs, your competitors. Hourly, daily, weekly, custom. Pick a model per schedule so cheap monitoring stays cheap. Diff Mode tracks every story across runs and tags it NEW, UPDATED, RESOLVED, or ONGOING — the RESOLVED signal nobody else ships. Executive summary lands in your email and Discord. Full 1,800-line report archives locally and is semantically searchable. Captain Hook works the night shift.

Personal analyst on retainer · included

800 agents. One supervisor. Nobody typed anything after the start button.

Taskmaster queues unlimited tasks, runs 40 concurrently, fires agents, reads every final response, and evaluates it against the success criteria you set. If the output doesn’t pass, it sends the agent back with a targeted correction prompt — automatically. Not a retry. A diagnosis. Stress-tested at 800 concurrent agents, 421 MB peak memory, QA loop catching real failures in real time.

Quality control loop · nobody else ships this

Taskmaster catching a failure mid stress test with 800 concurrent agents

Describe it. The agent builds the flow, runs it, and hands off.

The Node Agent is a visual canvas with 39 built-in nodes. Tell it what you want built — it designs the flow, wires the connections, scaffolds the project structure, installs dependencies, and writes the code. You can build or edit manually, save flows for reuse, and the agent can call any other FrankenCoder agent mid-run.

39 nodes UML class design save & load flows agent-to-agent handoff web scraping · pipelines · scaffolding

Visual programming · AI-built or hand-crafted · runs end to end

Node Agent canvas showing a procedural galaxy generator flow

Multi-source deep research. The report writes itself while you watch.

Set the topic and the depth mode. The Research Agent searches, fetches, compresses, and writes a structured report live — findings, analysis, sources, and reference list. Watch every search query and URL in real time, or come back when it's done. Pause and continue Marathon sessions from exactly where you stopped.

Quick Deep Marathon 29:1 compression save & continue · live sources · export

50+ sources in deep mode · document intel search · reasoning separated

Research Agent showing live research progress and report writing

Coding Pipeline · Optional

Toggle the agents you want. Each starts fresh. Output flows agent to agent.

The pipeline was built around local models with small context windows. Every agent in the chain gets its own trimmed tool package — no dead weight — its own system prompt tuned to its job, and a fresh context that starts from the previous agent’s output rather than the full chat history. The Prepper does all the expensive workspace exploration upfront and hands the Executor a tight, relevant plan instead of a wall of raw context. The Executor builds. The Reviewer checks. Security scans. Docs writes. All without you touching anything after the first message.

Honest tradeoff — if agents take too long between turns, you lose prompt cache hits. Worth knowing before you enable the full chain.

Fresh

context per agent — no accumulated cruft from previous turns burning tokens in every request

Trimmed

tool packages per agent — Executor doesn’t carry RE tools, Reviewer doesn’t carry browser tools

Optional

use the Planner alone, or toggle on as many stages as the task warrants — your call every time

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Even if I disappear tomorrow, the product you bought today will keep working forever. It’s local-first, no telemetry, no required cloud services. You own it. The reason I’m confident in this is because I built it for myself to escape exactly the dependency you’re worried about — being trapped by someone else’s tool.

So I built the tool I wanted to own. Eight months, no investors, no team, no growth deck.

If I do walk away, you still have it. That’s the difference between buying software and renting it. Worst case, the product stops getting new features — it doesn’t stop working. Try getting that guarantee from a subscription.

“Why so many features?”

Because I actually use all of them. The reverse engineering toolbox exists because I do RE work. The cyber panel exists because I needed it. The multi-agent system exists because I got tired of babysitting one agent. The Intelligence Center exists because I’m the one who used to read 30 newsletters — now I read one brief. Taskmaster exists because life doesn’t let me sit at a desk all day, and I needed a way to stay productive when I can’t. Every feature in FrankenCoder is here because I wanted it for myself first.

Eight months in, I haven’t opened Cursor in three of them.

No subscription.No telemetry.No nonsense.

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Getting started with FrankenCoder

Latest builds: Windows, macOS, and Linux

Built for every workflow, ships with everything loaded.

Case in Point

What nobody else ships.

Two chats. 20,549 and 24,102 messages. Both at 100 FPS.

Live preview that catches every change — yours, your agent’s, or any build tool watching the folder.

Local model. 3-stage crackme. 16 minutes. Flag captured.

A browser that opens itself, runs the task, and shows you everything.

A Cyber Agent that knows when to call backup.

IR-grade forensic containment. One right-click.

An intelligence brief while you sleep.

800 agents. One supervisor. Nobody typed anything after the start button.

Describe it. The agent builds the flow, runs it, and hands off.

Multi-source deep research. The report writes itself while you watch.

Toggle the agents you want. Each starts fresh. Output flows agent to agent.

The 14-Agent Orchestra

Planner

Executor

Reviewer

Security

Browser

Node

Research

Prepper

Cyber

RE (Reverse Engineering)

Beta Tester

Documentation

Refactor

Troubleshooter

Spend top dollar on judgment. Pennies on typing.

Your best model plans and verifies. Cheap workers do the grunt work.

Stop re-reading the agent's whole brain every time you pause.

Every token, every model, every provider — itemized.

One binary. Or a stack of subscriptions.

The Stack

FrankenCoder

Bring your own models

30-day money back guarantee

“What if you stop maintaining it?”

“Why so many features?”

Ready when it’s ready.

Bug fixes

Feature requests & improvements

Linux✓ Shipped

macOS✓ Shipped

FrankenRemote

FrankenEngine

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No subscription.
No telemetry.
No nonsense.