# Nano-Collective/nanocoder

An open coding agent for your terminal, built by a community collective rather than a company. Bring your own model, keep your code on your machine, and owe nothing to anyone.

Repository: https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nanocoder
Homepage: https://docs.nanocollective.org/nanocoder
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ai, ai-agents, ai-coding, coding-agents, llm, llm-inference, ollama, openai, openrouter
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:30:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 28
- inputs: {"age_days": 399, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 92}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2384, forks 272 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:42.271158+00:00)

## What it is
Nanocoder is an open-source, terminal-based AI coding agent built by a community collective. It runs agentic coding workflows against any model you choose—local models via Ollama or OpenAI-compatible APIs like OpenRouter, Anthropic, and Google—while keeping your code and data on your own machine.

## Use cases
- run an AI coding agent in my terminal with local models
- use Claude Code-like agentic coding with my own Ollama models
- refactor code with an LLM without sending my code to a third party
- bring my own model provider to an AI coding assistant
- audit or analyze a codebase with an open-source coding agent

## When to choose
- you want a privacy-respecting, local-first coding agent with no paid tiers
- you prefer local models via Ollama or flexible OpenAI-compatible providers
- you want a community-built, open alternative to Claude Code or Codex

## When to avoid
- you need a polished, vendor-supported commercial coding assistant
- you want cloud-managed agent features with built-in model hosting
- you need IDE-integrated AI assistance rather than a terminal workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: cli, windows
- tags: coding-agent, local-first, ollama, openai-compatible, privacy-respecting, terminal-ui, byo-model, ai-agents, command-line, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Nano-Collective/nanocoder (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.271158+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:39.328874+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.271158+00:00, sha b3dd711a8422)
  - homepage: https://docs.nanocollective.org/nanocoder (fetched 2026-08-29T10:15:50.935507+00:00, sha a00f7a8108b4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.