# Ava Supernova – open-source coding agent for open-weight LLMs > Source: > Published: 2026-06-26 15:38:06+00:00 **The open-source AI coding agent that works for everyone — not just the people who can afford it.** 60+ tools · 7 modes · 24 specialist personas · frontier open-weight models from every major lab · a Creative Studio that builds real assets into your project. **Free to start, no account, no credit card.** [What Ava Is](#what-ava-is) · [Surfaces](#one-ava-four-surfaces) · [Models](#models--fleets) · [Getting Started](#getting-started) · [Tools](#tools) · [Privacy](#privacy) · [Contributing](#contributing) Agentic coding shouldn't be a luxury. Ava Supernova is a full AI coding agent — she reads your codebase, plans the work, executes it task by task, and remembers what she learns so the next time gets easier. She runs on the frontier of **open-weight** models, which now match or beat closed frontier models on agentic coding at a fraction of the cost. She's open-source, **local-first**, and free to start: **No account, no credit card, no trial.** Install, open, go. Bring your own API key and run fully local — or sign up for**300 free credits a month** and start with zero setup.**Your data stays on your machine.** Memory, history, journal, tasks — all local by default. Cloud sync is opt-in.**No gatekeeping.** Every capability — including the security toolkit and the teaching engine — is available to everyone. The free tier is a floor, not a free trial. Ask Ava `what can you do?` and she'll read her own source code and tell you herself. The same agent engine (`@ava/core` ) powers every surface — same tools, same personas, same memory. You choose where you work: | Surface | What it is | Best for | |---|---|---| CLI (`@ava/cli` ) | A terminal REPL with the full agent loop. | Living in the terminal, scripting, servers, SSH. | VS Code Extension | Ava inside the editor you already use — chat, agent, command-centre dashboard. | Adding Ava to your existing VS Code workflow. | IDE | A standalone desktop app (Tauri + Rust) with Ava native and a local engine. Owns desktop automation. | A dedicated AI-native workspace; controlling the whole machine. | Companion | A mobile/web app — chat, tasks, journal, memory on the go. | Ava away from your desk. | **She remembers you.** A layered memory system learns your style, conventions, decisions, and the bugs you've fixed before — curated by a dedicated Memory Agent so context stays lean and recall stays sharp. Local-first, opt-in semantic recall.**She thinks before she builds.** 24 specialist personas across 7 modes plan, verify, and challenge before executing. Simple questions skip orchestration entirely — zero overhead.**She picks the right fleet for the work.** You pick the job; the right multi-model fleet falls out of it (see[Models & Fleets](#models--fleets)).**She teaches for free.** Switch to Teach mode, say "teach me Rust," and she builds a personalised curriculum and teaches it lesson by lesson — fact-checked against the live web. Same credits as every other mode.**She explains herself.** Ask "how does your memory work?" and she reads her own implementation and walks you through it.**She's yours to design.** Name, pronouns, tone, energy, communication style — same brain, your personality. Full UI in 20 languages. Modes aren't tool restrictions — they're states of mind. The toolkit and the persona team change to match the work. | Mode | Prefix | Mindset | Use it for | |---|---|---|---| Code | `>>` | Builder | Writing, editing, shipping code with the full toolkit | Plan | `::` | Architect | Read-only analysis, feature design, strategic proposals | Chat | `..` | Friend | Personal conversation, journal, memory, news, weather | Teach | `??` | Tutor | Personalised learning paths and Socratic delivery | Security | `!!` | Auditor | OWASP-aligned scanning with verified findings | Brainstorm | `**` | Ideator | Research, generate, challenge, and refine ideas | Write | `<<` | Author | Drafting real documents — reports, proposals, letters, articles — exported as branded Word & PDF | Switch with the dropdown or `Ctrl+Shift+1` through `Ctrl+Shift+7` . When a task is complex, Ava's internal team activates. Each persona gets its own clean context and scoped tools (the Challenger reads but never writes). Simple tasks go direct. **Code:** Scout → Architect → Verifier → Sequencer → Challenger → Builder**Plan:** Researcher → Architect → Challenger**Teach:** Curriculum Architect → Content Writer → Fact Checker → Quiz Master → Tutor**Security:** Recon → Scanner → CVE Researcher → Verifier → Reporter**Brainstorm:** Explorer → Researcher → Ideator → Challenger → Refiner Chat and Write run without personas — just Ava. You don't pick a model — you pick the work, and the right fleet falls out of it. Two orchestrated fleets ship today; a third is rolling out. | Fleet | Status | Coordinator | Best for | |---|---|---|---| Maestro | Ships now | Qwen 3.7 Plus | Daily work, predictable cost — a tier-differentiated Qwen ensemble | Aurora | Ships now | Mistral Medium 3.5 | GDPR-strict / sovereign EU work — Mistral-only, open weights, never leaves EU infrastructure | Supernova | BYOK now · managed preview | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Heavy multi-step work — a polyglot fleet picking the best model per role | **Supernova** runs today with your own DeepSeek + Qwen keys; the managed (platform-hosted) version is in preview. **Maestro** unlocks with a Qwen key, **Aurora** with a Mistral key. Bring your own key for any provider, or use Ava-managed models on a plan. Every plan gets every managed model — tiers differ only on monthly credit allowance, never on which models you can use. | Provider | Models | |---|---| Ava Managed | Qwen 3.7 Plus, Qwen 3.5 Plus, Qwen 3.5 Flash, plus the managed Mistral (Aurora) coordinators | Qwen (Alibaba) | Qwen 3.7 Plus, Qwen 3.7 Max, Qwen 3.5 Flash — 1M context, vision, reasoning | DeepSeek | V4 Pro, V4 Flash — MIT open-weight, 1M context | Moonshot | Kimi K2.7 Code — 1T MoE / 32B active, 256K context | Zhipu | GLM-5.2 — MIT open-weight, 1M context | Mistral | Medium 3.5, Small 4, Large 3, Codestral, Devstral — EU, open weights, up to 262K context | MiniMax | M3, M2.7 — 1M context (BYOK) | Xiaomi | MiMo V2.5, V2.5-Pro — 1M context, native multimodal | Anthropic | Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 | Custom / Local | Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or any standard API-format endpoint — the $0 path | [Node.js](https://nodejs.org)v20.0.0 or later- An API key from any supported provider — **or sign up for 300 free credits a month** ``` # Install from npm npm install -g @ava/cli ava ``` On first launch, Ava runs an interactive setup wizard: pick a provider, paste your key (or skip and sign in for the free tier), and you're ready. Install from the [VS Code Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=augmentedvalueacceleration.ava-supernova) — or search "Ava Supernova" in the Extensions panel. Click the Ava icon in the activity bar (or `Ctrl+Shift+A` ) and start. Download the standalone desktop IDE from [ava-supernova.com](https://ava-supernova.com). A local Node.js engine runs `@ava/core` on your machine — the full agent without a browser or VS Code. ``` git clone https://github.com/AugmentedValueAcceleration/ava-supernova.git cd ava-supernova pnpm install pnpm build ``` 60+ user-facing built-in tools. Ava decides which to use, runs them, reads the results, and keeps reasoning. (The IDE adds desktop- and browser-automation tools on top, gated to Desktop mode.) | Category | Tools | |---|---| File ops | `file_read` , `file_write` , `file_edit` , `glob` , `grep` , `list_directory` , `find_symbol` , `project_index` , `analyze_architecture` , `self_inspect` , `docs_lookup` , `browse_library` | Shell | `bash` , `test_run` , `test_generate` , `benchmark` , `debug_logs` | Git | `git_status` , `git_diff` , `git_commit` , `git_create_pr` , `rollback` | Web | `web_search` , `http_request` , `browser` , `weather` , `news` , `release_notes` , `paper_fetch_full_text` | Media | `generate_image` , `generate_video` , `remove_background` | Documents | `document_author` , `document_manage` , `email_draft` , `report_generate` , `doc_generate` , `present_plan` , `apply_plan` , `todo_write` , `task_manage` , `journal_write` , `switch_mode` | Memory | `memory_save` , `memory_recall` , `memory_update` , `memory_delete` , `curator` | Learning | `learning_create` , `learning_teach` , `learning_progress` | Security & Data | `audit_dependencies` , `database_query` , `secret_request` , `env_write` | System | `get_datetime` , `detect_language` , `ask_user` , `support_request` , `propose_tool` | Ava generates real assets and wires them straight into your project — a logo into `public/` , a hero clip into your landing page. **Images & video** run on**Wan**(Alibaba's open-weight models), built for clean graphic-design output and short clips with synchronised audio.- Every asset is tracked in the **Library**— grid or list view, filter by type, preview, reuse across projects. Your data stays yours: **API keys** encrypted in your OS keychain (VS Code SecretStorage). Never logged, never sent to Ava servers.**Conversations & memory** stored locally (`~/.ava/` ). Local-first by default.**Credential safety**— runtime detection blocks API keys, tokens, and private keys from being saved to memory; high-confidence key patterns are redacted from chat output before they hit the screen.**Capability-based secrets**— Ava receives opaque handles for vault secrets, not raw values, scoped to the current session.** Prompt-injection resistance**built in.** No telemetry**— we don't track your usage, code, or conversations.** Cloud sync is opt-in**, with delta tracking so you see exactly what's about to be pushed. Every plan gets every managed model. Tiers differ only on monthly credit allowance. | Tier | Price | Monthly credits | |---|---|---| Free | $0 | 300 | Pro | $19 | 5,000 | Ultra | $39 | 10,000 | Enterprise | $79 | 20,000 | Or run fully local with your own keys — the floor is free, forever. A pnpm monorepo with a shared core, plus submodules for the IDE, web platform, and companion app: ``` packages/ ├── core/ # @ava/core — shared agent engine (agent loop, providers, tools, personas, memory) ├── cli/ # @ava/cli — terminal REPL ├── extension/ # VS Code extension host + React webview + dashboard ├── ide/ # Standalone IDE (Tauri v2 + Rust + Node.js engine) — submodule ├── mobile/ # Companion app — submodule └── web/ # Platform website — submodule ``` **Key design decisions:** **Shared core, zero duplication**— CLI, extension, and IDE all run the same`@ava/core` engine, tools, and providers.**Event-driven agent**— the agent emits typed events every host subscribes to.** Self-contained tools**— each tool carries its own schema and handler; adding one is a single file plus one registry line.** No provider SDKs**— all provider communication uses native`fetch` .**Permission matrix**— risk levels (`safe` ,`write` ,`dangerous` ) combine with your permission mode to decide what needs approval. Plans and user questions always require approval.**Local-first**— everything works offline; cloud sync is opt-in. Contributions are welcome — this is built for the community. - Fork the repository - Create a feature branch from `development` - Make your changes and run `pnpm build` - Open a pull request against `development` [Apache License 2.0](/AugmentedValueAcceleration/ava-supernova/blob/development/LICENSE) — Copyright 2026 Augmented Value Acceleration Agentic coding for everyone.