CLI coding agents
coding agent used from the terminal
anomalyco/opencode anomalyco/opencode is the de facto leader by adoption — it’s a fully open-source, installable coding agent that explicitly separates a read-only planning mode from a full-access build mode; before choosing, decide whether you need strict local/offline control, multi-model flexibility, or deep VCS/IDE workflow integration, because those are the main trade-offs.
Which one matches your setup?
Answer any of the questions — the shortlist updates as you go. Recommendations come from the capability passports below, nothing else.
Comparison matrix
Axes are extracted from each project's docs by our review pipeline; the maturity score is computed from stars, growth and commit activity — not an opinion. Click a column to sort.
| Runs in | Models | Context | Cost to run | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
⭐ 218.3k +5241/7d | CLIWeb app | BYOK | Whole-repo analysis | Action gating only | ●●●●● | Cloud APIs (your key) | ●●●●● | Your API key, cloud model costs apply |
⭐ 152.9k +2332/7d | PR botCLIIDE | Anthropic | Diff / file only | No noise controls | ●●●●● | Cloud service only | ●●●●● | Anthropic cloud; see docs |
⭐ 130.1k +1086/7d | CLIIDE | OpenAI | Diff/file only | None mentioned | ●●●●● | Cloud (ChatGPT/API) | ●●●●● | Sign in with a ChatGPT plan or use your OpenAI API key |
⭐ 116.6k +1804/7d | CLI | OpenAIAnthropicGeminiBYOK | Diff + related files | None mentioned | ●●●●● | Self-hostable | ●●●●● | Your API key for cloud models |
⭐ 113.8k +2423/7d | CLICoding-agent pluginIDE | OpenAIAnthropicGeminiFixed provider | Diff + related files | Basic filters & dry-run | ●●●●● | Self-hostable | ●●●●● | Free to install — uses your AI provider's billing |
⭐ 107.5k +152/7d | CLIGitHub ActionCIPR botIDE | GeminiFixed provider | Whole-repo analysis | Config & trusted folders | ●●●●● | Cloud API (your key) | ●●●●● | Free tier (60 req/min, 1,000 req/day); usage-based billing with API key |
⭐ 70.6k +346/7d | CLIIDEWeb appCICoding-agent plugin | BYOKOpenAIAnthropicGeminiOllama / localFixed provider | Whole-repo analysis | Human-in-loop + rules | ●●●●● | Can run fully local | ●●●●● | Bring-your-own API key or run local models |
⭐ 36.3k +63/7d | CLIIDECoding-agent plugin | Fixed provider | Diff only | None mentioned | ●●●●● | Fixed cloud only | ●●●●● | Free, open-source |
⭐ 36.0k +753/7d | CLIIDECoding-agent pluginPR bot | BYOKOpenAIAnthropicGemini | Whole repo | Severity gating & advisor | ●●●●● | Self-hostable | ●●●●● | Your API key; provider charges may apply |
⭐ 35.9k +106/7d | CLIIDECoding-agent plugin | BYOK | Diff + related files | Basic pruning & approvals | ●●●●● | Self-hostable | ●●●●● | Your API key (pay provider) |
⭐ 28.7k +103/7d | CLI | BYOKOpenAIAnthropicGeminiOllama / localFixed provider | Whole-repo access | Configurable filters | ●●●●● | Self-hostable | ●●●●● | Hyper subscription (free tier) or your API key |
⭐ 28.6k +129/7d | CLICIIDE | BYOKOpenAIAnthropicGeminiOllama / local | Diff + related files | Minimal controls | ●●●●● | Fully local | ●●●●● | Requires your provider API key or use local models |
Capability profiles
Six axes, 0–5 each. The shape tells you the strategy: a wide hexagon is a generalist, a spike is a specialist. Showing the 8 most established — the rest are in the full catalog.
Open-source, installable coding agent that provides both a read-only 'plan' agent for safe exploration and a full-access 'build' agent for edits.
A terminal-first agent that executes routine coding tasks and integrates git workflows, plus @claude GitHub tagging.
A lightweight, local-first terminal coding agent that you can install and run with one command while signing in to ChatGPT or using your OpenAI API key.
An open-source, self-extensible coding agent harness that bundles a unified multi-provider LLM API, agent runtime, CLI and terminal UI in one project.
Compresses both what the agent writes (a caveman-style skill) and what it reads (a local proxy) to cut token usage while keeping originals accessible.
Terminal-first access to Gemini 3 with multimodal models, a 1M-token context window, built-in Google Search grounding, and MCP extensibility.
Provides a unified, extensible SDK + CLI + editor integrations with multi-agent Kanban and real shell command execution for coordinated, project-wide edits.
An open-source, community-built coding agent provided as a CLI and editor plugins (VS Code and JetBrains), aiming to be a reference implementation for developer tooling.
All repositories (176)
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you co…
AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens b…
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
Open-source Rust agent engine and terminal client for Codewhale, with provider choice, tools, approvals and re…
Open-source Rust agent engine and terminal client for Codewhale, with provider choice, tools, approvals and re…
Open-source Rust agent engine and terminal client for Codewhale, with provider choice, tools, approvals and re…
⌥ Coding agent with the IDE wired in. Built by Stencil Labs.
A reliable coding agent for complex software engineering tasks.
A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings
An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.
Open source Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents. Built for…
Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular ope…
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
Orchestrate Claude, Codex and Grok in one app. Open-source (MIT), reuses the subscriptions you already pay for…
High performance coding agent harness written in Rust, built for heavy multi-agent dev workflows
Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.
Superset is an agentic IDE to orchestrate 100+ coding agents in parallel. Run any agent with your own subscrip…
GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.
Universal skills loader for AI coding agents - npm i -g openskills
The GEP-powered self-evolving engine for AI agents. Auditable evolution with Genes, Capsules, and Events. | ev…
Z.ai's coding agent harness. Powerful, intelligent, extensible.
ChatGPT thinks. Codex works. Use ChatGPT as the planning brain while keeping the Codex harness.
A free coding agent in your terminal. It runs on the smartest free model that is up today.
The CLI and skills that turn any coding assistant into an expert at creating, evaluating, and deploying AI age…
Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web. Make…
SoL-Pi: Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harnesses
FuXi is a fast, self-contained AI coding agent that lives in your terminal — edit code, run commands, and driv…
A native control plane for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin and other coding agents.
Agent harness to make your slop code well-engineered and beautiful.
Find code by asking what it does. A CLI for coding agents that uses Jev to discover relevant files and source…
Build your own Claude Code from scratch. 🔍 Claude Code 开源了 50 万行代码，读不动？用 ~5000 行 TypeScript / Python 从零复现核心架…
Bot that bridges Feishu/Lark messenger with a local Claude Code or Codex CLI. Streaming cards, per-chat sessio…
Antigravity CLI brings the reasoning, execution, and orchestration capabilities of Antigravity agent harness d…
AI coding workstation: Claude Code + web UI + 8 AI CLIs + headless browser + 50+ tools
Delegate a coding task to a separate coding agent CLI, review the diff, land the commit yourself — one per imp…
Use ChatGPT Developer Mode as a local coding agent for your repo through MCP.
AI coding agent optimized for small LLMs. 87% benchmark with 4B-active model.
Ghost in your shell. Ante is a self-contained agent harness with a highly optimized core. It works like Claude…
Ghost in your shell. Ante is a self-contained agent harness with a highly optimized core. It works like Claude…
Web, Desktop & Mobile client and orchestrator for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity,…
(BETA) AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever. Your machine. Your agent. Use it from anywhere. T…
Minimal AI coding agent (~1,000 lines of Python) inspired by Claude Code. Works with any LLM. Think NanoGPT fo…
AI-native agent harness for coding workflows by python: multi-model LLM orchestration, stateful sessions, tool…
The coding agent that answers to you, your model, your machine, your rules.
The coding agent that answers to you, your model, your machine, your rules.
Lightweight coding agent written in Rust, optimized for memory footprint and performance
resume any AI coding session in another tool — Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, Codex, Cursor
AI coding harness for desktop, terminal and CI. Maps your repo, edits code by symbol through AST and LSP, then…
AI coding harness for desktop, terminal and CI. Maps your repo, edits code by symbol through AST and LSP, then…
Plain-language agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI: honest session reports, straight ve…
⚡️ 10x - Up to 20x faster AI coding with multi-step Superpowers. Open-source agent with smart model routing, B…
Your coding agent for controlled development in the workspace you lead. A Pi-native shell with Organic Driven…
OpenCode mobile client via Telegram: run and monitor AI coding tasks from your phone while everything runs loc…
Minimal and readable coding agent harness implementation in Python to explain the core components of coding ag…
MOMO CODE — RSI *JEV*Pi --AI coding agent that evolves with you
The Bloomberg Terminal for CLI Agents, its Maestro Baby!
A lightweight terminal coding assistant with Claude Code-like workflow, tool loop, and TUI architecture, built…
天枢harness是一个的终端编程智能体，它要回答的核心问题是：模型何以稳定地交付——目标不漂移、完成有证据、验证有闭环，不说"应该修好了"。为此它在模型与真实世界之间建立一层认知执行环境（CVM），把目标、状态、证据、…
天枢harness是一个的终端编程智能体，它要回答的核心问题是：模型何以稳定地交付——目标不漂移、完成有证据、验证有闭环，不说"应该修好了"。为此它在模型与真实世界之间建立一层认知执行环境（CVM），把目标、状态、证据、…
Terminal session manager for AI coding agents. One TUI for Claude, Gemini, OpenCode, Codex, and more.
Open-source, self-hosted Claude Code - a terminal AI assistant and the Python framework behind it. Tool-callin…
Built by DeepSeek, for DeepSeek — a Swift-native macOS coding agent
A fast coding-agent harness in Go. Tool-use loop, bubbletea TUI, provider-routable models with live catalog di…
Use sidecar next to CLI agents for diffs, file trees, conversation history, and task management with td
让你的agent一键直出商业级产品宣传片：会作曲，能指着画面改。Commercial-grade launch films by your coding agent — point at the frame to cha…
Run Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini side by side — each in its own git worktree
CodeAgent is an open-source coding agent that lives in your terminal. It understands your repository, plans mu…
A DeepSeek coding agent harness: persistent shell, Ultra subagents, auto approval, Chrome MCP and session tele…
Whale — blazingly fast, terminal-first AI coding agent for DeepSeek. ~98% prompt cache hit rate, 1M context, M…
Token efficient Claude Code full Python rebuild. AI Coding Agent in 310K LoC Python.
a1on9 bot — An AI agent built from the digital footprint of @a1on9. Powered by a1on9's entire tweet history,…
A minimal autonomous code-agent CLI built with Qwen Code
CheetahClaws: A Fast and Easy-to-Use Agent Harness Infrastructure for Long-Horizon, Multi-Model, and Tool-Usin…
Open-source TypeScript terminal coding agent for DeepSeek-V4 — builds on DeepSeek's strong price-performance a…
33 battle-tested skills + minimal .claude harness for any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI…
Multi-device terminal server for AI coding agents. Server-side VTE, session persistence, file browser, web pre…
PiG (Pi in Go) is a faithful Go port of upstream Pi, the TypeScript codebase behind the Pi coding agent. It is…
A minimal modern terminal for AI coding experience — Sidebar workspaces; horizontal / vertical split panes; on…
The fastest developer workflow for every AI coding agent. Live status, quick prompts, worktrees, and diff revi…
The agent harness for building analytics into your app on top of ClickHouse, Redpanda and other high-performan…
Inference-native Tokenmaxxing Agent Harness for Loop Engineering
The AI agent with a wallet — spends USDC autonomously to get real work done. Apache-2.0, TypeScript.
Job board CLI for coding agents. Search and judge millions of worldwide postings from all white-collar sectors…
mu (μ): a coding agent that thinks before it acts. A small, fast judge makes the routine calls, the big model…
RSIH — versionable, shareable agent harness: Pi coding agent + Genome config layer
Multi-harness control plane for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode: quota-aware rotation across multiple…
OpenCode goal plugin for Codex-style goal mode, /goal slash commands, persistent objectives, and AI coding age…
Autolith is a self-modifiable general purpose Lisp AI agent
AGI-oriented, hallucination-resistant AI coding runtime grounded in evidence, tools, memory, agents, and verif…
High-performance AI agent for long-horizon tasks and local models. Built on empirical research. 200k+ tokens o…
🗿 FableCodex is a Codex-style coding agent workflow that plans like Fable.
Easy Code (formerly DeepV Code) — A highly customizable AI coding assistant compatible with all major AI model…
Spec-driven, agentic workflow framework for AI coding agents. Turn a request into a verifiable goal loop — pla…
deepseek标配coding agent、原生支持模型路由、CodeGraph代码图谱、OCR截图识别、自动上下文压缩、最佳工作模式选择，workflow等功能，从根本上节省Token
Pi, the coding agent, compiled ahead of time to native code. Starts 3× sooner than Pi on Bun and uses about a…
Free MIT AI coding agent — no API key needed. Built-in free model, or bring Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Oll…
Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal. Claude Code-grade accuracy with smart model routing — uses the r…
AI coding agent harness. Five modes: practice to playoffs. Stop your AI from over-engineering. Code like a man…
Wishes in, PRs out. CLI agent that interviews you, plans the work, dispatches parallel agents in isolated work…
A CLI tool for logging and analyzing Claude Code and Cursor ai-driven coding session.
Local-first, governed AI agent runtime for Python — embed it in your app, or run it as a CLI or ACP server. Pe…
Compose Skill (Compose Kit): agent skills for Jetpack Compose & Compose Multiplatform. Makes Claude Code, Code…
Posthorse: fresh context, same journey. No-summary context rollover for the Pi coding agent (official Pi 1.0+…
UmaDev: A coding agent that works like a real dev team, commanding the Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode you alre…
Human-in-the-loop planning extension for the Pi coding agent. Turns rough change requests into versioned Markd…
Open source, terminal-first AI coding agent with fully transparent multi-model routing. Local (Ollama, LM Stud…
FirstCoder is an open-source local coding agent that’s useful enough to run, small enough to read end to end,…
Open-source local AI client and coding agent for DeepSeek, Qwen, ChatGPT and EconomyOS with memory, voice, bro…
Portable agent setup through one INSTALL.md: minimal project instructions, verified workflows, native memory r…
Senior-developer discipline for AI coding agents. A commit gate that counts unchecked as failing, quality cont…
A small, complete Python agent harness: tools, compaction, retries, and a single-file TUI. Built to learn and…
OpenSeek - 广度求索: open-source TUI coding agent with multi-provider routing, MCP, LSP, and Plan/Agent/YOLO modes…
Control your local Codex sessions remotely through Discord on your phone or browser.
Carbon Code 是一款类似 Claude Code 的代码开发工具，也是中国第一个基于 DeepSeek 的代码开发工具，Token 成本节省 90% 以上。它可以实现自动任务拆分、自动开发、MCP 测试，以及与…
Agentic Engineering that actually scales. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and any other CLI Agents in parallel…
Taking the pi coding agent to Claude Code-level performance: 0.539 → 0.773 pass@1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with t…
A Claude Code clone CLI - agentic coding assistant in your terminal
Terminal-native AI coding assistant for real repositories. Inspect code, edit files, run tests, and verify cha…
Best ready-to-run DeepSeek Harness distribution: DSH desktop GUI, DSH terminal TUI, and harness integration.
Uncensored AI coding agent in your terminal. Does the work, skips the sermon. 256K context, crypto-only billin…
AI-native embedded engineering agent — from natural-language requirements to code, build, flash, runtime valid…
AI website cloner for rebuilding live websites with AI coding agents
Open-source AI coding agent for your terminal — one Rust binary, 15+ LLM providers, 1,000+ models. A self-host…
AI coding agent with one Python core and three front-ends — headless CLI, Textual TUI, and an Electron desktop…
为 DeepSeek 前缀缓存定制的终端 Code Agent(纯 Go),缓存命中率 95-99%,命中输入定价为未命中的 1/30。A terminal coding agent optimized for Deep…
Cross-platform terminal grid for running Codex, Claude, Gemini, and other CLI agents side by side.
Cross-platform Claude Code desktop client by hwwn. Multi-workspace, remote mobile access, session branching, B…
Rust-native, library-first coding-agent runtime and terminal CLI inspired by Pi, with composable LLM providers…
Build an AI Coding Agent from Scratch in Pure Python, Step by Step | 用纯 Python 从零搭建 AI 编程 Agent，边实现边理解其工作原理
Build an AI Coding Agent from Scratch in Pure Python, Step by Step | 用纯 Python 从零搭建 AI 编程 Agent，边实现边理解其工作原理
Commander, your AI coding commander centre for all you ai coding cli agents
A coding-agent CLI and strongly-typed Python library -- self-mutating, hot-swapping, multi-provider, with asyn…
A pure-Go port of pi (earendil-works/pi) — the pi-ai unified multi-provider LLM API, pi-agent-core agent loop,…
Verifiable AI coding agent harness / 可验证的 AI 编码代理：evidence hash-chain · hollow-answer gate · manual verificati…
A from-scratch Java CLI agent with Read/Write/Bash tool-calling and an agentic loop, built via CodeCrafters us…
QodeX — a local-first LLM agent & AI coding CLI agent for your terminal. Runs local models (Qwen3-Coder via Ol…
OrbCode CLI — agentic coding in your terminal, powered by Axon models by MatterAI
A coding assistant built on persistent multi-agent teams: durable members that discuss, chat, and re-sync cont…
Hosted alternatives
If running your own reviewer is more ops than you want, these managed services cover the same job.
The Cursor agent outside the editor: a managed terminal agent on the same subscription as the IDE, closed-source and run against Cursor's models instead of a repo you clone and wire up yourself.
Try Cursor CLI →An agentic terminal with the coding agent built into the shell. Subscription-based and managed, so there is no harness to install or model to connect.
Try Warp →Factory's hosted CLI agent aimed at real production work, with model access, tool wiring and org controls handled for you rather than assembled from config.
Try Factory Droid →