nodwyn is a coding agent that keeps your keys out of the model's hands. It runs on your computer or on a server, and you work with it from a window, a browser, a phone or a terminal.
Give nodwyn a repository and a task, such as fixing a test. It can read the project, make changes and ask to run commands. You can follow its work, answer approvals and review the changes before landing them.
Your API keys sit in an encrypted keychain. The model gets a handle rather than the key itself, and the host puts the key into a request only where you have allowed it. A guard checks the operations the agent asks the host to perform; what it refuses stays refused.
This guide walks through the console and shows how to run nodwyn on your own computer or on a server.
On your computer
Start with nodwyn app. It opens the console in a window or your browser and starts a daemon if you don't already have one running.
On a server
Keep the daemon running on a server and open its console from your laptop or phone. Terminals on the server attach to the same tasks.
From a terminal
A full-screen client and a plain chat, both attached to the daemon, so a task outlives your connection.
Where to start #
If you haven't installed it yet, the install page has the release archives and the source build. The first ten minutes gets a model connected and a first task running. After that, the tour of the console shows what each part of the screen does. The reference is built from the same repository: the manual, the protocol, the Scheme language reference and the decision records. Read the decisions when you want to know why something works the way it does.
nodwyn is pre-1.0 and I use it every day, so expect rough edges. It isn't a sandbox either: commands you approve run with your user's privileges. Your keys says what is and isn't promised.