CodingBuddy
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The facts
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What it does
- Agent features
- It offers parallel worker spawning, task complexity classification, task profiles, code retrieval, model routing, and memory extraction.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Codebase indexing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Code completion
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Code search
- Per-turn retrieval combines vector search and BM25 for code search.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Coding workflows
- Its commands include interactive chat, one-shot questions, planning, unattended autopilot, and staged-change review.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- It supports MCP servers over stdio, HTTP, and SSE, and provides a JSON-RPC backend for IDE integrations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository uses the MIT License, which grants permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell copies of the software subject to its conditions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local ML
- An optional local-ML build enables local embeddings, ghost-text completion, and privacy routing with Block, Redact, and LocalOnly policies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Model providers
- It supports DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Ollama, and OpenRouter, plus OpenAI-compatible endpoints.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- CodingBuddy is an open-source, Rust-based AI coding agent for the terminal.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- Building from source requires Rust 1.94.1 or later.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Runtime requirement
- Building from source requires Rust 1.94.1 or later.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Its safeguards include bash AST analysis, a four-stage permission system, default-deny rules for selected commands and files, and secret detection with tool-output redaction.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- The README describes a four-stage permission system, default-deny rules for selected commands and files, and secret detection with tool-output redaction.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The repository provides a `codingbuddy doctor` command to check dependencies and configuration.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Terminal access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Web interface
- An optional web interface can be started with `codingbuddy serve --transport http --web` and opened in a browser at `http://127.0.0.1:8199`.checked 12 Oct 2026
- What it does
- It combines chat, planning, tool execution, patch workflows, code indexing, and long-running autopilot loops.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The project documents installers for macOS, Linux, and Windows, and says npm installation works on any platform with Node.js.checked 12 Oct 2026
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