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agent-shell

A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP

by xenodium · GitHub
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Interact with AI agents directly within Emacs using a dedicated shell.

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A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP

agent-shell has 1.8k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 225 times. agent-shell is written mainly in Emacs Lisp. It has been in active development since 2025. agent-shell is available under the GPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are ai, claude, claude-code, codex.

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What is agent-shell?

A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP

Is agent-shell open source?

agent-shell is an open-source project. It is released under the GPL-3.0 license.

Is agent-shell free?

Yes. agent-shell is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its GPL-3.0 license is copyleft: if you distribute a modified version, it must remain under the same license.

What license does agent-shell use?

agent-shell is available under the GPL-3.0 license.

What language is agent-shell written in?

agent-shell is written mainly in Emacs Lisp.

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