Code Buddy

Code Buddy 2

A local-first AI coding agent that can also run as a fleet, a desktop app, and a companion.
It reads your repository, writes code, runs commands, and you can watch it work — on your machine,
at $0 with Ollama or a ChatGPT subscription.

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  A local model reasons on screen, then uses a tool to create a real file. No cloud API bill.

  The big picture: interfaces, the agentic runtime, tools and providers, and the loop that turns an idea into an improvement.

What Code Buddy is

One minute with Lisa · French presentation

Watch on YouTube · MP4 alternative · French subtitles

Lisa introduces the multi-AI hub, installation and optional perception components. Edited on September 13, 2026 from an existing September 10 master, with a synthetic voice and portrait, illustrative footage and French captions. Illustrations are not execution evidence. Voice and robotics require additional components beyond the npm package.

Code Buddy combines a terminal coding agent with cloud, gateway and local model routing,
query-selected tools, and the following interfaces. Optional services require their documented
configuration; enabling a feature does not replace its permission checks.

For changes planned for 2.3.0, see the changelog. The
2.2.0 release notes describe the last published
version and its integration limits.

- A multi-AI fleet hub. Peers running buddy server observe each other's events and call each
  other's models: one-shot peer.chat, multi-turn peer.chat-session.*, and peer.tool.invoke
  for remote read-only tools. That last one passes three ordered gates — an allowlist, a
  per-tool fleetSafe flag, and a workspace root that fails closed when unset, so a
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