Claurst
ActiveDescription
Your favorite Terminal Coding Agent, now in Rust. Provides high performance and memory safety. Supports code generation, file editing, command execution and complete development workflow.
Key Features
- Rust-native terminal coding agent with blazing performance and memory safety
- Multi-provider support with unified routing across AI model providers
- Agent Client Protocol (ACP) integration for Zed, Neovim, and JetBrains editors
- Rich TUI with chat forking, memory consolidation, and companion character Rustle
- Plugin system and /goal support for multi-turn objective-driven workflows
- /share sessions via GitHub Gists and Free Mode for zero-cost agentic coding
Use Cases
💡 Daily terminal-based coding assistance with multi-provider AI models
💡 Integrating AI coding agents into editors via the Agent Client Protocol
💡 Running one-shot headless queries for codebase exploration and explanation
💡 Multi-turn objective-driven development tasks with /goal command
Strengths & Limitations
✅ Strengths
- • Actively maintained, recent updates
- • High community interest (10.3k stars)
- • Responsive to issues, low backlog
⚠️ Limitations
- • Restrictive license (GPL-3.0)
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Quick Start
Install via curl: `curl -fsSL https://github.com/kuberwastaken/claurst/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash`. Or install via npm: `npm install -g claurst`. Set `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and run `claurst`. For headless mode: `claurst -p "explain this codebase"`.