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Crush
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Charm’s glamorous terminal coding agent.
Crush is an open-source coding agent from Charm, the terminal-UI people. It runs in the terminal, uses Charm’s design language, and talks to models you configure. It is an execution client, not a cloud factory.
- Model independence
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- See repository LICENSE
- Pricing model
- Free
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
github.com/charmbracelet/crush · Source
Editorial take
Crush is listed because terminal agents are a real execution layer and Charm ships software people actually run. It is not trying to be Devin. If your factory already looks like a Unix pipeline, a Charm agent is in character. Read the repo license file; do not assume MIT.
Strengths
- Terminal-native UX from a team that specializes in it.
- Open source, model-agnostic client.
- Fits scripted and local workflows.
Limitations
- No hosted sandbox or issue tracker integration as a product.
- Younger than Aider; ecosystem and docs are thinner.
- License should be read in the repo, not inferred.