Anthropic Backs Databasus Under Claude for Open Source Program

atabasus — open source self-hosted database backup tool (5,800+ GitHub stars, 250k+ Docker pulls) — was accepted into Anthropic's Claude for Open Source program. The program gives maintainers of qualifying projects (5,000+ stars or 1M+ NPM downloads) 6 months of free Claude Max. The article covers how Databasus grew from a small internal tool to the most starred PostgreSQL backup tool on GitHub, how the Anthropic program works and what its requirements are, and how AI is used in the project with strict no-vibe-coding policy.