brigado adj. bound, obliged, indebted · int. thank you

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Give back to the open-source software that supports your world with a single command. No donation required, just a status line in your agent CLI or IDE.

curl -fsSL https://obrigado.dev/install.sh | sh && obrigado install
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We stand on the shoulders of giants

Most of the code your project runs was written by someone else. A lockfile often lists hundreds of packages, and you picked a small fraction of them yourself. The rest came in as dependencies, and many of them are maintained by one or two people who are not paid for it. AI coding agents make it easy to use a package without ever reading its code, so fewer people end up in its issue tracker, which is where most contributors start. That leaves the same one or two people doing more of the work, still unpaid.

Questions

Where does the money actually go?
70% of gross funds fixed-term grants to open source maintainers. The other 30% runs the business: processing, legal, infrastructure, salaries, and what is left reinvested in more ambitious bets on sustainable open source. Costs never touch the 70%, the fiscal host's fee included, so a grant arrives at the amount committed. Every grant is on the transparency page.
What do I get out of it?
You get to help build a sustainable open source ecosystem that everyone benefits from, with no technical skills or capital needed.
What's the best way to financially support open source projects?
Give directly to the maintainers, so they keep all of it: GitHub Sponsors takes no fee on a sponsorship from a personal account. If that's not possible, give through a platform like Open Collective or thanks.dev. Obrigado is a great option if you want to support open source and promote something at the same time.
What does this cost advertisers?
$2.18 CPM reserve. Below that nothing clears. It's published so advertisers bid against each other instead of against a rate card.
What does install actually touch?
One key. statusLine in your agent's own settings, written through the interface that agent documents. Nothing else, and no file belonging to another program gets read or rewritten. It also asks four targeting questions, all defaulting to no, and prints the JSON your answers produce. Uninstall puts it back.
What do you collect about me?

By default: the package names in your lockfile, your agent and OS, and whether anyone is at the keyboard. Never your hostname, your repo name, or a file path. It sits under a random install ID, not an account. Your lockfile counts toward the totals we publish either way; no package is named there until 5 separate installs report it.

Opt in and advertisers can also aim at those packages, your country, your IP range, and what your agent has been reading. This is the exact JSON a render sends, either way:

obrigado privacy

{
  "deps": [
    { "p": "npm:react", "d": 0 },
    { "p": "npm:scheduler", "d": 1 }
  ],
  "private_repo": false,
  "signals": {
    "ci": false,
    "tty": true,
    "display": true,
    "agent": "claude-code",
    "agent_version": "2.1.4",
    "client_version": "0.1.0",
    "surface_version": "0.1.0",
    "os": "linux",
    "sharing": {
      "packages": false,
      "region": false,
      "network": false,
      "activity": false
    },
    "docker": false,
    "container": false
  }
}
{
  "deps": [
    { "p": "npm:react", "d": 0 },
    { "p": "npm:scheduler", "d": 1 }
  ],
  "private_repo": false,
  "signals": {
    "ci": false,
    "tty": true,
    "display": true,
    "agent": "claude-code",
    "agent_version": "2.1.4",
    "client_version": "0.1.0",
    "surface_version": "0.1.0",
    "os": "linux",
    "sharing": {
      "packages": true,
      "region": true,
      "network": true,
      "activity": true
    },
    "retrieved": ["npm:react"],
    "docker": false,
    "container": false
  }
}

The sharing block is permission, not information. Your country and IP range come off the connection, get matched, and are never stored.

Once the line is shown, a second request confirms it. No prompt, no message, no filename, no model, no cost.

{
  "events": [
    {
      "type": "impression",
      "impression_id": "8f1c0e2a-5d77-4a31-9b0e-2c6f1d4e8a55",
      "nonce": "3Qk1r0Zp8vJt2mXq5Lw9Aw==",
      "signals": {
        "timing": { "session_s": 1840, "api_s": 412 }
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "events": [
    {
      "type": "impression",
      "impression_id": "8f1c0e2a-5d77-4a31-9b0e-2c6f1d4e8a55",
      "nonce": "3Qk1r0Zp8vJt2mXq5Lw9Aw==",
      "signals": {
        "timing": { "session_s": 1840, "api_s": 412 },
        "retrieved": ["npm:react"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

A society grows great when old men plant trees

in whose shade they shall never sit.