Aude is like Claude, but parts removed.

Coding agents keep adding features. Aude takes them away: a minimal system prompt, only three tools, and nothing between a frontier model and your code.

What’s left is a harness over claude and codex that makes teams multi-player again. Start a session on your laptop, pair with a teammate, check it from your phone, and steer sessions in CI.

编程智能体不断增加功能，Aude 则把它们去掉：极简的系统提示词、仅三个工具，前沿模型与你的代码之间别无他物。

剩下的是一个基于 claude 和 codex 的框架，让团队重回多人协作。在笔记本电脑上开启会话，与队友结对编程，在手机上查看进度，并操控 CI 中的会话。

For developers

A frontier model at its full potential, unhindered.

• Cheaper: a minimal system prompt leads to about half the cost of the native CLI over a long run.
• Faster: smaller calls. A long run took 0.85× the time on claude and 0.61× on codex.
• More accurate: it keeps what you told it in an earlier session, 70 % of facts against 23 % for claude’s own memory, and obeys no order planted there.

Measured on sonnet and gpt-5.6-terra in October 2026 (Documentation/Research/evaluation.md).

For the CTO

Coding agents are single-player: one person, one terminal. Aude makes them multi-player.

• Easy to deploy: one self-contained binary over the claude and codex CLIs your teams already use, with no server or service to host.
• Runs anywhere: on a laptop, a server or a CI runner, the same way.
• Multi-player: anyone you pair can attach to a session from anywhere, so people and agents work and steer together.

For the CISO

Little to trust, and all of it in view.

• Minimal dependencies: four Swift packages, three of them Apple’s, and no cryptographic primitive of its own.
• Easy to audit: about 20,000 lines of Swift, with a written spec and threat model that the code and tests cite rule by rule.
• No third-party services: no relay, account, rendezvous or telemetry. A device dials the machine directly, and checks its key against the fingerprint taken at pairing.

Install

On macOS 15 or Linux, with Swift 6.2 or newer and a logged-in claude or codex on PATH:

make release
sudo make install                 # or make install PREFIX=~/.local, with no root
aude --harness claude             # or codex; there is no default

/login starts a missing login, and man aude gives every flag and exit code.

Verify a release

A release is a signed, notarized macOS .tar.gz. Verify it before you extract it:

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS
gh attestation verify aude-<version>-macos-universal.tar.gz --repo dickolsson/aude \
  --signer-workflow dickolsson/aude/.github/workflows/release-terminal.yml

• Keep --signer-workflow: --repo alone trusts any workflow in the repository.
• The attestation lands minutes after the release.