Project-aware agent loop
Inspect, reason, patch, verify.
⌘ Ruby CLI Coding Agent
Kward is a general-purpose coding agent written in Ruby: terminal-native, project-aware, pipeable, and designed around your workflow.
Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter & more.
Unix filter mode
Pipe diffs, logs, and code through Kward.
Branchable sessions
Resume, rewind, fork, compact, export.
Worker pipelines
Queue focused agent tasks from the TUI.
Live source intelligence
Search the web and read public repos.
Ruby-native extensions
Shape Kward with plugins, skills, and prompts.
⇩ Install
Install Kward from RubyGems and get started in seconds.
gem install kwardThen initialize the starter pack, if you want the defaults.
kward init
⌘ Built for real development loops
- Inspect, patch, verify, repeat against a real workspace.
- Edit files in Kward’s built-in editor with syntax highlighting, search, undo, and familiar keybindings.
- Review diffs, stage files, and commit changes from the integrated Git workflow.
- Pipe diffs, logs, code, and generated text through Kward as a Unix filter.
- Organize long-running work with tabs, sessions, rewind, forks, compaction, and exports.
- Dispatch worker tasks, leave them running, review the results later.
- Ground answers with live web search and public source repositories before guessing.
- Shape Kward with memory, skills, prompts, personas, and trusted Ruby plugins.
- Build custom UIs on top of Kward’s JSON-RPC backend.
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