Any model, your choice
Works with the major hosted providers, with local models through Ollama, and with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. A free mode runs on zero-priced models and never falls back to a paid one.
What did it change?
Archymedes CLI
A coding agent that shows its work.
Archymedes CLI plans, edits, runs and verifies in your terminal, on any model. Every step is visible, every change can be reviewed and undone, and you set the most a task may spend before it starts.
The Press. A request is typed, the checks run, and the terminal prints a receipt.
How it works
01
Bound
Pick the workspace, the model and the permissions. Set the most this task may spend.
02
Execute
The agent plans, edits and runs commands. Every tool call is shown as it happens.
03
Verify
Tests and checks actually run, and their real output is what you read.
04
Receipt
What changed, what it cost, and how to undo it. Accept, or revert in one command.
What it does
Open-source coding agent
You decide how much it may do
Permission modes run from plan-only to fully automatic, with approval per tool. Risky commands wait for you.
Verified, not asserted
A result is marked green only when the checks it recorded actually passed. No passing check, no green.
Everything is reversible
Each change is checkpointed. /diff shows exactly what moved and /undo takes it back.
Cost you can see first
Spend is shown every turn in your own currency, and you can cap what a single task may use.
Runs where you want it
On your own working tree, or isolated in a Docker or remote sandbox when the work should not touch your machine.
Sessions that survive
Work is saved after every completed step. Kill the process, come back, and resume where it stopped.
Plate I / Archymedes CLI
$ archymedes
What are we building?
Build the API and optimize the database architecture.
✓ analyzing architecture
✓ mapping dependencies
✓ creating plan
Ready.
In practice
A few commands
/task- The request, the plan, the changes, the verification and any blockers in one view.
/diff- Exactly what this session has changed.
/undo- Take the last change back.
/retry- Run the last step again.
/balance- What you have spent, against the budget you set.
archymedes --free- Run on zero-priced models. It will not quietly switch to a paid one.
How it works
Architecture
What it is not
- Hosted spend caps and routing receipts arrive with Archymedes Cloud, which is not live yet. With your own provider key, everything else works today.
- Other coding agents share some of these features. What we hold ourselves to is that the work can be checked.