- type
- Coding agent
- interface
- Terminal (CLI/TUI) + ACP server (stdio/HTTP/SSE/WebSocket) + headless daemon
- openSource
- Yes (MIT)
- lineage
- Gives the model a single composable tool for writing and running programs rather than exposing many discrete tools; ships as one static binary with kit tui (interactive terminal client), kit prompt (one-shot task), kit acp (editor protocol server), and kit serve (headless daemon) entrypoints
- note
- Show HN 2026-09-02 ('Kit: Claude Code but Concise'). Built by Speakeasy (an existing API-tooling company known for OpenAPI SDK generation); 287 commits against only 20 stars at time of posting, consistent with internal development before public release rather than a weekend project. Independently confirmed to be a runnable agent runtime (kit tui, kit prompt, kit acp, kit serve entrypoints via a curl-installed static binary), not an SDK or library: MIT licensed, install script and Docker images both present. Distinct from the already-tracked Pi (4-tool core: Read/Write/Edit/Bash) by going one step further to a single-tool design, and from Peri by using ACP as its native protocol from the start rather than as one of several access surfaces; closest in primitive to Bough's single-generated-program-per-turn execution model and Prime Agent's programmatic tool calling via a persistent IPython kernel, though kit differs from both in vendor, language, and licence.
- iconUrl
- /research/harness-icons/kit.png
