Four Repos That Upgrade Your Claude Setup: anydoc, herdr, DeepSeek Harness and OmniRoute
anydoc, herdr, DeepSeek Harness and OmniRoute: what each one actually does, how to install it, and which one to start with
What this is
Four open source GitHub repositories, each fixing one specific thing that goes wrong when you use Claude for real work. None of them is a prompt pack. Each is a tool you install once, and each one solves a problem you have probably already hit: office files that turn to mush, a terminal full of tangled agents, a model you cannot swap, and a usage limit that stops you mid task.
The star counts, licences and figures below were read from the GitHub API and each repository's README on 5 September 2026. They move. Check the repo, not this page, before you quote one.
- firecrawl/anydoc, MIT, over 20,000 stars. Converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF and more into clean Markdown.
- herdrdev/herdr, Apache 2.0, over 35,000 stars. A terminal workspace that runs your coding agents in their own panes and tells you which one is stuck.
- deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, MIT, over 212,000 stars. An agent runtime where every part, including the model, is a plugin you can swap.
- diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, MIT, over 61,000 stars. A free AI gateway that reroutes to another model when Claude runs out of credits or errors.
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