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Crush

Charm's glamorous agentic AI coding agent for your terminal.

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IDE
Pricing
BYO KEY
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Local
Platforms
CLImacOSLinuxWindows
Models
BYO key / model
Verified
Jun 13, 2026

A terminal-based AI coding agent from Charm, the team behind Bubble Tea and other CLI tools. It plans and edits files, runs commands, and pulls code context via LSP, all inside a polished TUI. It is model-agnostic: bring your own keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, OpenRouter, and other providers, and switch models mid-session.

Pros & cons

  • Polished, keyboard-driven terminal UI
  • Model-agnostic with mid-session switching
  • LSP-aware code context
  • Runs locally; you control keys and data
  • Requires your own model API keys
  • Beta — some features still missing
  • FSL license is not OSI open-source yet

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