Hmbown/Codewhale
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #227 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 9%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 201 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +1,134 stars on May 4, coincided with release v0.8.9.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a terminal-native AI coding agent that integrates DeepSeek V4 models for interactive code editing, reasoning, and tool orchestration within a keyboard-driven TUI.
- Enables large 1M-token context windows with real-time chain-of-thought streaming and multi-agent orchestration for complex coding workflows directly in the terminal.
- Use for interactive code exploration and planning with read-only investigation mode to understand and decompose complex codebases.
- Use for automating multi-step coding tasks with approval gates in Agent mode, allowing safe incremental code changes and tool usage.
- Use for fully automated code modifications in trusted workspaces using YOLO mode with auto-approved tool execution and session checkpointing.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
A terminal-native coding agent for DeepSeek V4 models — with 1M-token context, thinking-mode reasoning, and full tool-use.
DeepSeek TUI is a coding agent that runs entirely in your terminal. It gives DeepSeek's frontier models direct access to your workspace — reading and editing files, running shell commands, searching the web, managing git, and orchestrating sub-agents — all through a fast, keyboard-driven TUI.
Built for DeepSeek V4 (
deepseek-v4-pro/deepseek-v4-flash) with 1M-token context windows and native thinking-mode (chain-of-thought) streaming. See the model's reasoning unfold in real time as it works through your tasks.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,692 stars over 90 days across 21 snapshot days; best day +74 on Jul 4.
Forks
3.6K+169
Open issues
179-109
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Sep 27, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 91.6K | +5.8K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| mvschwarz/openrig | 7.4K | +3.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| pablostanley/yoinks | 5.9K | +1.4K | 6 | — |
| HKUDS/CLI-Anything | 52.1K | +1.1K | 75 | 110 days ago |
| Nasiko-Labs/nasiko | 9.4K | +875 | 52 | 234 days ago |
| Hmbown/Codewhale | 41.0K | +0 | 75 | 8 days ago |
| Category median | 9.4K | +1.4K | 60 | — |
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