Toolbox/CLI coding agents/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell

Gentle Shell is a Pi-native coding-agent harness for controlled development with Organic Driven Development, optional SDD/OpenSpec, subagents, TDD evidence, review guardrails, skills, and memory integrations.

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TypeScriptMITagent-harnessagent-skillsai-agentsai-codingai-coding-agent
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950
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Age
4 mo
Last push
22m ago
960955950945941Sep 21
90-day star history

Where this sits in the catalog

GroupCoding agents
CategoryCLI coding agents#77 of 158 by stars
RankingsNot in any top 20 today — see the rankings
NearbyIDE & editor agents (13)Autonomous SWE agents (50)Code review agents (17)Codebase context (13)

Most-wanted open issues

Ranked by 👍 reactions. 341 open issues total, checked 2026-09-21.

Issue👍CommentsOpened
fix(compaction): preserve user language preference after context compaction
203 mo
feat(profiles): support session-bound active profiles without global routing mutation
131 wk
bug(codegraph): query requests repeatedly run init and hang Pi
151 mo
feat(models): add provider-aware SDD model presets

status:approved

132 mo
My pi writes me spanish even I ask things with plain english
112 mo

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