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OSS AI pair programmer for the terminal; multi-model, git-native.
Popular OSS terminal pair-programmer. Edits files directly, commits via git, multi-model, with a public leaderboard for code-edit benchmarks. Common starting point for self-hosted agentic coding workflows.
Strengths
- Fully open source
- Multi-model (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, local)
- Git-native commit-per-change workflow
Tradeoffs
- Less polished than IDE-based harnesses
- No managed plugin ecosystem