Tiny Coding Agent

Tiny Coding Agent

A lightweight, extensible coding agent built in TypeScript that helps developers with coding tasks across TypeScript, React, JavaScript, Node.js, Bash, and markdown/JSON.

Features

• Rich Terminal UI: Ink-powered CLI with components for messages, spinners, and tool output
• TTY Detection: Automatically adapts to terminal capabilities with plain text fallback
• Multi-Provider LLM Support: Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, OpenRouter, OpenCode, Z.AI, ClinePass, and QwenCloud
• MCP Client Integration: Connect to Model Context Protocol servers for extended capabilities
• Built-in Tools: File operations, bash execution, grep, glob, and web search
• Memory System: User-initiated persistent storage with relevance-based retrieval
• Agent Skills: Reusable prompts from agentskills.io or custom SKILL.md files
• Plugin System: Extend the agent with custom tools
• Lifecycle Hooks: Review and modify plans before execution (e.g. plannotator)
• JSON Output Mode: Machine-readable output for tooling integration

Quick Install

One-line Install (macOS/Linux)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jellydn/tiny-coding-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

This downloads the latest release binary for your platform and installs it to `~/.local/bin/`.

**Safer alternative** (inspect before running):

curl -fsSL -o install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jellydn/tiny-coding-agent/main/scripts/install.sh
less install.sh  # inspect the script
sh install.sh

**Note:** After installation, add `~/.local/bin` to your PATH if not already present.

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install jellydn/tap/tiny-agent

Build from Source

git