Kode is an AI assistant that lives in your terminal: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs shell commands, and orchestrates multi-step workflows. It natively supports the AGENTS.md standard and stays backward-compatible with .claude directories and CLAUDE.md, plus root-to-leaf instruction discovery. Distinguishing features include multi-model collaboration and per-request model switching (@ask-model-name), a subagent delegation system (@run-agent-name), and fuzzy-matching completion. Buyer-relevant safety note (from the README): Kode runs in a permissive default mode that bypasses permission checks for productivity; the maintainers recommend kode --safe for permission prompts on important files or untrusted models — worth surfacing to buyers. Privacy (vendor claim): "does not send product telemetry/analytics by default"; network calls occur only for configured model providers, web tools, plugin-marketplace downloads/OAuth, and opt-in update checks. Disambiguation: shareAI-lab/Kode-CLI (package @shareai-lab/kode), distinct from the unrelated kodesage.
Kode
Terminal AI coding agent with multi-model and AGENTS.md support
Open-source terminal coding agent (npm `@shareai-lab/kode`) that understands your codebase, edits files, and runs commands across 20+ AI models, with native AGENTS.md and legacy `.claude`/`CLAUDE.md` compatibility.
Pricing
Free and open source (Apache-2.0). Bring your own keys for 20+ Anthropic/OpenAI-compatible providers; you pay only your model provider.
Platforms
TypeScript/Node.js CLI via npm (`@shareai-lab/kode`), with per-platform native binary packages and standalone GitHub Release binaries. Cross-platform.
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