A terminal agent for people who want agentic workflows without the token bills.
Most agent sessions burn 300k+ prefill tokens. My Shell is built around small contexts: local-first compaction can complete a full task in 20–80k tokens.
Small contexts also make parallelism affordable - run multiple agents at once; thread pooling keeps each session lean without cost compounding.
It runs anywhere: macOS, Linux, and Windows, in Docker, and even in VGA/VESA framebuffer mode with no terminal emulator. It runs natively in PowerShell with full rendering and keybindings, no degraded experience.
• Vim keybindings throughout
• Markdown and LaTeX rendering in the terminal
• On-demand subagents with isolated contexts
• Compaction runs locally — your context stays on your machine
• Single bundle, no external packages required
It's opinionated: terminal-first, no chat UI, Vim keys. If that's not you, there's also a web chat with your name on it (and a fresh wgpu desktop app, coming soon™).
Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746030](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746030)
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