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    codewhale-hq/Codewhale

    Open-source agent for the terminal written in Rust. Use any provider or model. Issues & PRs always welcome

    41.2K stars
    3.6K forks
    158 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 15 days ago, with 218 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 interacts with your workspace using DeepSeek V4 models for code reading, editing, shell commands, and git management.
    • Enables real-time chain-of-thought reasoning with a 1M-token context window and multi-agent orchestration for complex coding workflows directly in the terminal.
    • Use for interactive code exploration and planning with read-only investigation mode before making changes.
    • Use for automating multi-step coding tasks with approval gates in an interactive agent mode.
    • Use for fully automated code modifications in trusted workspaces using YOLO mode with auto-approved tool execution.

    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.

    Excerpt from the codewhale-hq/Codewhale README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 16: +19Aug 17: +8Aug 18: +2Aug 19: -3Sep 1: +4

    +499 stars over 90 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +19 on Aug 16.

    Forks

    3.6K+50

    Open issues

    62-116

    Compared with peers in CLI

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