{"slug": "nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness", "title": "Nodwyn – An Extensible Coding Harness", "summary": "Nodwyn, a pre-1.0 coding agent, keeps API keys out of the model's hands by storing them in an encrypted keychain and giving the model a handle instead of the key itself, with the host inserting the key into a request only where the user has allowed it. The agent runs on a local computer or a server and is driven from a window, browser, phone or terminal, letting users give it a repository and a task such as fixing a test, follow its work, answer approvals and review changes before landing them. The guide notes that Nodwyn is not a sandbox and that approved commands run with the user's privileges.", "body_md": "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.\n\nGive 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.\n\nYour 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.\n\nThis guide walks through the console and shows how to run nodwyn on your own computer or on a server.\n\n### On your computer\n\nStart 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.\n\n### On a server\n\nKeep the daemon running on a server and open its console from your laptop or phone. Terminals on the server attach to the same tasks.\n\n### From a terminal\n\nA full-screen client and a plain chat, both attached to the daemon, so a task outlives your connection.\n\n## Where to start\n\nIf you haven't installed it yet, [the install page](guide/install.html) has the release archives and the source build. [The first ten minutes](guide/first-run.html) gets a model connected and a first task running. After that, [the tour of the console](guide/console.html) shows what each part of the screen does.\n\nThe reference is built from the same repository: the [manual](reference/manual.html), the [protocol](reference/protocol.html), the [Scheme language reference](reference/scheme.html) and the [decision records](decisions/index.html). Read the decisions when you want to know why something works the way it does.\n\nnodwyn 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](guide/keys.html) says what is and isn't promised.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness", "canonical_source": "https://nodwyn.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-30 00:13:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 00:47:00.424288+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Nodwyn"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nodwyn-an-extensible-coding-harness.jsonld"}}