Kodelet is a lightweight agentic SWE Agent. It runs as an interactive CLI tool in your terminal. It is capable of peforming software engineering and production operating tasks.
- Intelligent Engineering Assistant: Automates software engineering tasks and production operations with agentic capabilities.
- Interactive Architecture Design: Collaboratively design and refine system architectures through natural dialogue.
- Continuous Code Intelligence: Analyzes, understands, and improves your codebase while answering technical questions in context.
- Reusable Fragments/Receipts: Create template-based prompts with variable substitution and bash command execution for routine tasks.
- Vision Capabilities: Support for image inputs including screenshots, diagrams, and mockups (Anthropic Claude models).
brew tap jingkaihe/kodelet
brew install kodeletcurl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jingkaihe/kodelet/main/install.sh | bash
# Force standalone binary install
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jingkaihe/kodelet/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --binaryThe install script defaults to package-based installation: Homebrew on macOS and .deb/.rpm packages on Linux.
Kodelet supports Anthropic Claude and OpenAI compatible models. The default model is now OpenAI gpt-5.5, with gpt-5.4-mini as the default weak model.
If you prefer explicit environment configuration, you can use:
export KODELET_PROVIDER="openai"
export KODELET_MODEL="gpt-5.5"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"For detailed development instructions, including prerequisites, running locally, configuration options, and available mise tasks, please see the Development Guide.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details..