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by Roark66 29 days ago
If we programmers united we had a clouded code alternative that didn't suck :-)

But we're not far.

My requirements: - a terminal app without advanced tui, not written like "a browser running in a terminal" or a game. There is no need to overcomplicated. - ability to manage prompts per model, compress context using alternate models, and minimise token costs better - like the YouTube's Sentdex's Minion mini harness (in fact I'm building on top of his as we speak). - support for agent work fanout - support for MCP, but switchable off/on depending if needed (I use a single MCP aggregator anyway so mcp tool use doesn't eat my context) - support for lsp/tree-sitter, again switchable when needed. - support for OpenAI api and written easily enough so other ones like deepinfra are easy to add.

Nice to have: - have some sort "prompt library" that would store tweaked versions of prompts for different models so it adjusted the harness as needed depending on which model we call.

That's it.