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A minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C. (by OleksandrChekhovskyi)
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  • Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2026
  • Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2026
    GitHub repo: https://github.com/OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax

    This is a coding agent implementation I am working on, which delivers what this promises, except it's actually fully open source, and even more lean (few MBs of runtime memory usage).

    MIT-licensed, written in C, multi-provider / multi-model, minimalist approach to system prompt and tools (think kinda like pi, but with a bit more "batteries included", like subagents and background tasks out of the box), polished presentation, inspectable (usable transcript view), etc.

  • Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Aug 2026
    https://github.com/OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax

    Written in C, tiny footprint, minimalist approach to system prompt and tools (yet essential batteries are included, for example - it has subagents with presets, and background bash tasks out of the box), high quality polished presentation, inspectable (usable transcript view), does not mess with terminal scrollback, respects XDG directory spec, etc.

    Open source, MIT-licensed, no commercial agenda. A tool that I myself wanted, so I built it.

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OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of hax is C.


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