agent-code Documentation

Requirements

• A supported LLM API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, or any compatible provider)
• git and rg (ripgrep) for full functionality

Install methods

Cargo (recommended)

If you have Rust installed:

cargo install agent-code

This installs the agent binary to ~/.cargo/bin/.

Homebrew

On macOS or Linux:

brew install avala-ai/tap/agent-code

Prebuilt binaries

Download from GitHub Releases:

# Example: macOS Apple Silicon
curl -L https://github.com/avala-ai/agent-code/releases/latest/download/agent-macos-aarch64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv agent /usr/local/bin/

From source

git clone https://github.com/avala-ai/agent-code.git
cd agent-code
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/agent /usr/local/bin/

Verify installation

agent --version
# agent 0.1.1

Run the environment check:

agent --dump-system-prompt | head -5
# You are an AI coding agent...

Uninstall

# Cargo
cargo uninstall agent-code

# Homebrew
brew uninstall agent-code

# Manual
rm $(which agent)

Data locations