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⚡️ High-performance terminal AI agent with an animated companion pet, markdown syntax highlighting, and native shell execution.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 71%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes A terminal AI agent with shell execution and markdown highlighting is a CLI wrapper around LLM APIs, though the scraped text is largely unusable, so the assessment rests on the tagline.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #2240 of 3170 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cook · hn · 2026-03-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.75
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- Aurict · hn · 2026-09-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
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- jolo · github · 2026-09-10 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Wmux · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- now · github · 2026-09-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Smux · hn · 2026-03-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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More details
- External ID
- 1425009063
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- keel
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.29
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- terminal ai agent for developers
- Manually corrected
- No