Awesome Cli Coding Agents

The agent that grows with you

🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, for your OpenCode

aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

⌥ AI Coding agent for the terminal — hash-anchored edits, optimized tool harness, LSP, Python, browser, subagents, and more

The most RAM efficient harness

Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.

Universal provider proxy for OpenAI Codex & Claude Code — use any LLM (Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama…) with Codex CLI, App, SDK, and Claude Code

OpenAI's Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities. npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openai/codex-security

AI enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT, O Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and 300+ models

Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider.

Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web. Make your own persistent autonomous agent on top!

Command Code AI

✨ Fully autonomous AI Agent that can perform complicated tasks and projects using terminal, browser, and editor.

An open coding agent for your terminal, built by a community collective rather than a company. Bring your own model, keep your code on your machine, and owe nothing to anyone.

Local First Ai Agent. Optimized for Local Ai models. Long context window. Proper tools callings. Runs privately on your device.

You're the boss, agents are your team. They handle tasks on their own, message each other, and review each other's work. You just watch the kanban board and give high-level commands. Codex/Claude/OpenCode/Cursor/Grok/GitHub Copilot/Kiro/Z.AI/MiniMax/Kimi(200+ models, 75+ LLM providers, free models no auth). Build your AI company with multiple teams

Open-source self-improving QA agent for software teams. A test harness with memory. Write tests in natural language for web and mobile. agent-qa learns from every run, adapts to UI changes, and catches regressions before you ship.

Open source local terminal cli with any LLM

🦀 Open-source alternative to Claude Code, built from scratch in Rust. Agentic coding CLI — thinks, plans, and executes with any LLM. Compatible with Claude Code workflows.

You pick the model per task, with review, evidence, and a PR at the end.

Lionclaw is a local control plane for AI coding agents. It runs AI agents as durable, auditable workers with explicit state, skills, channels, schedules, and bounded permissions.