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hax

A minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

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About the startup

Lightweight by design - starts instantly and uses only a few MB of memory. Local models are first-class - auto-discovers config from running llama-server. Respects your terminal - native scrollback is preserved. Inspectable - See exact model-facing conversation a usable transcript view. Broad provider support - OpenAI, Anthropic, Codex, OpenRouter, OpenCode Zen/Go, llama.cpp, and more. Well-behaved Unix tool - XDG paths, plain text input/output, composition via subprocesses instead of plugins.

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