Acknowledgements

agentty stands on the shoulders of excellent open source software. Thank you to the maintainers of every project below.

Built with

• maya — The sister TUI engine agentty renders through — owns every glyph, layout, and animation.
• OpenSSL — TLS and cryptography for the HTTP/2 transport and OAuth (PKCE).
• nghttp2 — The HTTP/2 implementation behind the streaming providers.
• nlohmann/json — JSON parsing and serialization for the API and thread persistence.
• claybin — The sister sandbox library and authority compiler that isolates shell and build calls: landlock + seccomp + cgroup2 on Linux, seatbelt on macOS.
• Bubblewrap — The Linux sandbox (bwrap) agentty falls back to where claybin cannot build, and the bar claybin was written against.
• CMake — The build system that produces the single static binary across platforms.

Inspiration

agentty exists because of Anthropic's Claude and the claude-code experience — the goal was a native, dependency-free client for the same workflow. Backoff and transport details drew on ideas from the Zed editor's Anthropic crate.

Contributors

agentty is maintained by its contributors. See the full list on GitHub. Want to join them? Start with the contributing guide.

License

agentty is released under the MIT License. Bundled third-party components retain their own licenses; see the repository for details.