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Clinch

Last updated 2026-08-19 · benchmark measured 2026-08-19 — deterministic & reproducible

Clinch is a macOS terminal built for running AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.

Is Clinch production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Clinch 77 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Clinch (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 87/100
• Accessibility — 92/100
• Security — 80/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 60/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 154 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

AI engineers · Software developers · Claude Code users · Codex users · AI agent builders

Pricing

100% free, open source, no sign-in required

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