plandex-ai

    plandex-ai/plandex

    Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.

    15.9K stars
    1.2K forks
    109 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 481 days ago, with 22 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a terminal-based AI coding agent that plans and executes large, multi-step coding tasks across many files in real-world projects.
    • Enables handling of very large projects with up to 2 million tokens context and integrates multiple AI models for flexible, autonomous or controlled workflows.
    • Use for automating complex codebase modifications and feature implementations spanning dozens of files with syntax and logic validation.
    • Use for debugging terminal commands and browser applications automatically to streamline development and deployment workflows.
    • Use for interactive project-aware chat to explore ideas, learn codebases, and generate commit messages with integrated git support.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

    💻  Plandex is a terminal-based AI development tool that can plan and execute large coding tasks that span many steps and touch dozens of files. It can handle up to 2M tokens of context directly (~100k per file), and can index directories with 20M tokens or more using tree-sitter project maps.

    🔬  A cumulative diff review sandbox keeps AI-generated changes separate from your project files until they are ready to go. Command execution is controlled so you can easily roll back and debug. Plandex helps you get the most out of AI without leaving behind a mess in your project.

    🧠  Combine the best models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and open source providers to build entire features and apps with a robust terminal-based workflow.

    🚀  Plandex is capable of full autonomy—it can load relevant files, plan and implement changes, execute commands, and automatically debug—but it's also highly flexible and configurable, giving developers fine-grained control and a step-by-step review process when needed.

    💪  Plandex is designed to be resilient to large projects and files. If you've found that others tools struggle once your project gets past a certain size or the changes are too complex, give Plandex a shot.

    Excerpt from the plandex-ai/plandex README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    1.2K+15

    Open issues

    71+9

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