smelt

A fast, Lua-scriptable AI coding agent for the terminal, customizable like Neovim.

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smelt is a small, fast, Lua-scriptable AI coding agent for the terminal, built with its own renderer and Vim-style editing rather than wrapping an existing TUI library. It supports both subscription-based providers like ChatGPT Pro/Plus and GitHub Copilot, and any OpenAI-compatible API-key provider. It's aimed at developers who want a lightweight coding agent they can customize and script the way they would customize Neovim.

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