Show HN: Caudra – An open-source terminal coding agent in one native binary
Hi HN, I'm Thorsten. Caudra ( https://caudra.ai ) is an open source TUI coding agent written in Rust. It started as a fork of Maki and has grown into its own project. I spend most of my working day with coding agents and i have tried a lot of them. I kept adding more and more plugins to get the features I wanted. Most of the time though, i couldn't build the plugins i needed because I couldn't hook into the places I needed (e.g. proper /goal mode). It was also hard to keep them up-to-date, and I
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2026-10-22 15:30:15.859Z
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Repository: caudra/caudra. Source account: Hi HN, I'm Thorsten. Caudra ( https://caudra.ai ) is an open source TUI coding agent written in Rust. It started as a fork of Maki and has grown into its own project. I spend most of my working day with coding agents and i have tried a lot of them. I kept adding more and more plugins to get the features I wanted. Most of the time though, i couldn't build the plugins i needed because I couldn't hook into the places I needed (e.g. proper /goal mode). It was also hard to keep them up-to-date, and I
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