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A portable terminal AI agent (OSS, MIT)

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HN · launched Mar 5, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent runtime environments · 745 launches, 500 in the last 7 days ▲ +942% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a portable terminal CLI tool that reads user input, makes LLM API calls with function calling, and executes local shell commands and file edits.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: claude -p (Anthropic CLI with session history)

Concerns raised: Installation script installs globally, no option for local binary download

Feature requests: Wrap claude -p sessions and pretty-print JSONL output, Standalone binary download without global installation

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 6434 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #4849 of 6435 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Aurict · hn · 2026-09-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.82
  • Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • kernel · github · 2026-10-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs · hn · 2026-04-08 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • TermHub · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • Fleet · hn · 2026-06-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • Wmux · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • jolo · github · 2026-09-10 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.73

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