claurst

Why we included this project

Claurst is a Rust-based terminal coding agent that grew out of a clean-room reimplementation of Claude Code and now works as a TUI pair programmer. It routes requests across more than a dozen LLM providers instead of tying you to one vendor, and it can also run headless one-shot queries over the Agent Client Protocol, so editors like Zed and Neovim can call it as a subprocess with native approval prompts. It pays attention to how people actually work: chat forking, memory consolidation, effort levels that climb to a top-reasoning mode, and a /goal command that keeps the agent on an objective across multiple turns. There is no telemetry, and prebuilt binaries cover the three main desktop platforms with a one-line install, which makes it easy for a solo developer or small team to adopt. It is officially in beta, so experimental features still have rough edges, but the core agent, routing, and TUI hold up for daily use.