A coding agent in your terminal.

What it is

The same agent core as the desktop app, compiled to a single 6 MB Rust binary with a keyboard-first terminal interface. It shows the plan as it forms, the thinking stream, the diffs before they apply, and running token accounting so you can see what a turn is costing while it happens rather than afterwards.

Why a binary rather than a Node package

No runtime to install, no dependency tree to resolve, no version conflict with whatever else is on the machine. It matters most in the environments where this kind of tool is most useful: a server you have SSH access to, a container, a machine you do not administer.

Free and open source

The CLI is free with no subscription. The paid product is the desktop app, which adds the diagram canvas, the dependency audit, the observability surface and the command palette. If the terminal is where you work, you never need to pay anything.

Same models, same rules

Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, local Ollama included, so the offline story is identical. Configuration is shared with the desktop app, so using both means one set of settings.

CLI and desktop app

Install

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