codewhale-hq/Codewhale
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
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The open-source coding agent that works with any model. Codewhale reads your project, edits files, runs commands, and checks its own work — in your terminal, with a hosted or local model you choose. [](https://github.com/codewhale-hq/CodeWhale/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](https://crates.io/crates/codewhale-cli) [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/codewhale) [](LICENSE) [](https://discord.gg/37gfS3ksug) Website · Documentation · Changelog · Contributing 简体中文 · 日本語 · Tiếng Việt · Bahasa Indonesia · 한국어 · Español · Português · Русский · Українська · Français · Deutsch · 繁體中文 · हिन्दी · Türkçe · Italiano · Polski · العربية · Català Real terminal capture of a fresh install — no staged output. macOS and Linux: The installer downloads checksum-verified binaries into /.local/bin. If codewhale then says "command not found", run the one PATH line the installer prints, or see Put it on your PATH. Upgrade any time with codewhale update. Windows, npm, Cargo, and other routes Docker, Nix, Homebrew on Linux, Android/Termux, manual downloads with checksum verification, and…
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What this repository does
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
Repository facts
- Owner
- codewhale-hq
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 41,084
- Forks
- 3,569
- Open issues + pull requests
- 204
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-01-19T18:21:01.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-08T11:51:56.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agent-orchestration, ai-agent, cli, codewhale, coding-agent, developer-tools, local-first, mcp, multi-agent, multi-model, open-source, rust, terminal, tui
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