Work with guardrails
Review exact edits and permission requests before they run. Saved rules remain explicit, scoped, and editable. Understand permissions
Cagent
Plan, edit, run, and review from your terminal—with durable history and permissions you can inspect.
A coding agent built for the terminal
Cagent understands your workspace, proposes guarded changes, runs commands, and keeps every conversation locally resumable. Use it interactively for everyday development or headlessly in scripts and automation.
Install the latest release
curl –proto ‘=https’ –tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cretezy/cagent/main/scripts/install.sh | shWhy Cagent
Section titled “Why Cagent”Keep durable context
Resume local conversations, revisit branches, fork from earlier messages, and compact long sessions without losing the transcript. Manage conversations
Shape the workflow
Choose providers, models, modes, agents, skills, instructions, MCP servers, keybindings, and the interface. Configure Cagent
Automate from the CLI
Run one-off tasks, stream JSON events, restrict tools, and validate the final result against a JSON Schema. Run headlessly
Start with a workflow
Section titled “Start with a workflow”Code interactivelyWrite prompts, attach files, run shell input, and use slash commands.Modes & PlanningSwitch modes, create custom modes, and choose how an accepted plan enters implementation.Build specialized agentsCreate reusable profiles and delegate independent work.Isolate a taskAsk Cagent to work in a Git worktree or Jujutsu workspace.Automate a taskRun a prompt in CI, stream JSON events, or require structured output.Customize CagentConfigure providers, permissions, instructions, skills, MCP, and the interface.Resolve a problemDiagnose provider, model, configuration, MCP, editor, and history issues.
Ready to start?
Install Cagent, connect a provider, and send your first request in a few minutes.