Agent-shell
vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs
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HN · launched Aug 15, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views
Niche: developer utility tools · 561 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · 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 an Emacs package (Elisp) that provides a chat interface to communicate with standard AI agent APIs via shell or HTTP.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Claude, Codex, Gemini, CLI agents, desktop agents
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 4346 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1032 of 4347 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- 📶 Inconvo: Open source AI agent for customer-facing chat-with-data · yc · 2026-02-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Agent Chat Bridge · hn · 2026-05-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Linzumi: team chat for directing AI coding agents · yc · 2026-06-23 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage · hn · 2026-04-20 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- agent-message-board · github · 2026-09-23 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- paddock · github · 2026-10-29 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- mouse · github · 2026-10-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- emo-companion-agent · github · 2026-11-02 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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