red

Modal text editor in Rust with Vim-style editing and a built-in, reviewable Codex agent workflow.

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Red is a self-contained, Vim-inspired modal text editor written in Rust, with tree-sitter syntax highlighting and a built-in Git workspace. It offers an optional agent mode that uses the Codex CLI to edit code directly in the visible buffer, revealing each change to the user before it is applied and saved.

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