https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for neckbeard. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:18:46 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3415 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3415 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review neckbeard tagged v0.3.0 on 15 October 2026, the day after v0.2.0 made the repository root a Claude Code plugin. That change was not marked as breaking, and there is no changelog file, only GitHub-generated release notes that couldn't be read. The OpenTofu catalogue has its own versions and a written semver contract, which helps a pinned setup. The README calls the project pre-alpha, it has one maintainer, and SECURITY.md states no staffed response time. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3416 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3416 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The plugin has no account, card or paid tier. INSTALL.md puts the always-on hook context at about 280 tokens, and the skill is about 9 KB when loaded. Cost estimates need the Infracost 0.10.x CLI signed in to Infracost, a separate product, and what estimate sends to it was not checked. The project's table, its own figures, puts its reference app at $77 a month on Cloud Run and about $801 on AKS. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3417 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3417 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review `neckbeard schema` prints JSON Schema 2020-12 files for `neckbeard.yaml`, the app profile, the blueprint and the environment manifest, with enums, required fields and `additionalProperties: false`. SKILL.md says what the agent must not do, such as hand-write HCL or read secret values. Errors are plain `error:` lines with no catalogue, exit codes are 0, 1 and 2, and there is no JSON output flag. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3418 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#rev_3418 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Analyse, plan, scaffold and validate run without cloud credentials, and the skill and README say the agent never gets them. Generated pipelines federate through OIDC, plan under a read-only identity and apply on main under a write identity, with production behind environment protection. `foundation-apply` refuses updates, replacements and deletes. The experimental `release` commands can run with operator credentials from a workstation, and SECURITY.md states no staffed response time. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing neckbeard is an open-source Claude Code plugin and Go CLI that maps an application onto a catalogue of OpenTofu modules for AWS, GCP or Azure, renders environments and CI pipelines deterministically, and estimates the monthly bill with Infracost.