ante

Why we included this project

If you spend your day driving Claude Code or Codex and want a leaner alternative, Ante is a terminal-based coding agent that ships as a single ~15MB Rust binary with minimal runtime dependencies. It runs the same kind of interactive loop, cycling through prompt, tool calls, confirmation, and execution, but lets you bring your own model from a dozen-plus providers or run GGUF models fully offline through its built-in inference engine. Beyond the interactive TUI, the client-daemon architecture exposes a headless CLI, a JSONL server mode for editor plugins and custom UIs, and a gateway mode that turns it into a Slack or Discord bot. That makes it useful both as a drop-in coding assistant and as a lightweight core to build your own harness around. Note that the core currently ships as a prebuilt binary rather than full source, and it is still in alpha. It only runs on macOS and Linux, so treat it as something to evaluate in a sandbox rather than a finished production tool.