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Hmbown/CodeWhale, a Rust terminal coding agent created January 19, tagged v0.9.9, v0.9.10 and v0.9.11 between August 18 and 23, with 3,537 forks and 117 open issues. It's one of the largest open coding agents by star count and has never claimed 1.0. Read the version number literally rather than as modesty; the repo explicitly frames itself as mid-journey and takes outside PRs.
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Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,828 stars, Rust) released v0.9.8 on August 16, formally deprecating the legacy deepseek-tui npm package with a REBRAND.md migration path for v0.8.x users (GitHub). It ships identical runtimes under both codewhale and codew across npm, Homebrew, GHCR, archi...
v1.31.0 on August 22, v1.31.1 on August 23, v1.32.0 on August 24, reaching 4,502 stars (GitHub). Written in Rust, it provides long-term memory for coding agent CLIs and is explicitly built to hand work off between different agent vendors rather than lock into one. Releases shi...
A Rust and SQLite coordination protocol sitting above Git for multiple agents on the same repo, aiming to surface conflicting intent before conflicting code exists (GitHub). 87 stars, created August 21, actively pushed. Effectively single-source and too young to evaluate, but...
agentic-api was created March 23, sits at 226 stars with 62 forks and 21 open PRs to 46 open issues, pushed today. It adds stateful API logic for agentic applications on top of vLLM, so session and multi-turn state live at the serving layer instead of being reassembled by the...
Most coding agents run on JavaScript runtimes and eat 300MB of RAM just sitting idle. Zerostack is built in pure Rust, uses ~8MB on idle, ~12MB while working, and posts 0.0% idle CPU. It hit 1.0 on crates.io this week with 474 points and 252 comments on Hacker News. The archit...
On August 5 rust-lang/rust published a project-wide LLM policy built on one line: LLMs may answer, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest and review, but not create. The specifics have teeth. Autonomous agent contributions are banned outright. LLM-generated code in public do...
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