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Codeshell — AI skill for Claude Code

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An open-source AI coding assistant for your terminal, inspired by Claude Code.

How to install Codeshell

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open cjhyy/codeshell and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Codeshell does

An open-source AI coding assistant for your terminal, inspired by Claude Code. Interact with your codebase directly from the command line.

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README

CodeShell

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A general-purpose AI agent orchestration framework — terminal, headless, and a full desktop app.

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CodeShell desktop AI agent orchestration promotional image

CodeShell is one orchestration engine wearing three faces:

a terminal CLI (code-shell) for interactive and headless agent runs,
an Electron desktop app with chat, file/browser/terminal/diff panels, model & credential management, an extensions marketplace, automation, and a phone remote, and
a programmatic SDK (import { Engine } from "@cjhyy/code-shell") for embedding the engine in your own product.

The core is deliberately **domain-agnostic**. The turn loop, context management, permissions, MCP integration, hooks, tasks, cron, sub-agents, sessions, and memory all stay generic. Coding tools, git/worktree behavior, LSP, review, quota, and coding prompts live in the physically separate `@cjhyy/code-shell-capability-coding` package and are composed by the