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anus-dev/ANUS

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A free coding agent in your terminal. It runs on the smartest free model that is up today. observed · 2026-10-07

github.com/anus-dev/ANUS · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-10-07

Health v2 · maintenance only

86/100

  • Activity 97
  • Release rhythm 97
  • Longevity 42
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-22. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0
  • age_days: 591
  • days_rel: 22
  • days_push: 20
  • n_releases_24m: 2

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

6549 stars · 923 forks observed · 2026-10-07

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ANUS is a Grok-powered AI agent for the terminal, distributed as an npm CLI, whose stated goal is to evolve into an agent that contributes to its own codebase. It is framed as a community experiment in AI-driven software development, with a largely AI-generated codebase.

Use cases

  • run an AI agent from the terminal
  • automate coding tasks with a CLI agent
  • experiment with self-improving AI agents
  • use Grok models from the command line
  • explore AI-generated software projects

When to choose

  • you want a terminal-based AI coding agent to experiment with
  • you're interested in autonomous/self-developing agent experiments
  • you want an npm-installable Grok-powered CLI

When to avoid

  • you need a production-ready, stable agent framework
  • you require strong governance or human-authored codebase
  • you want a tool without meme-coin/community-experiment baggage

Facets

cli-tool · maturity experimental

agent-framework llm-inference cli chatbot large-language-models developer-tools cli cross-platform grok-powered ai-generated-code self-improving-agent terminal-agent meme-coin-project ai-agents command-line nodejs

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
anus-dev/ANUSmain86

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