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AI · July 24, 2025

A tiny (480 LOC) AI coding assistant for your shell

Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published. The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way. The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama…

A tiny (480 LOC) AI coding assistant for your shell launched on July 24, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

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TinyCoder is a tiny AI coding assistant designed to be used from command-line. curl -o ~ /.local/bin/tinycoder https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n-k/tinycoder/refs/heads/master/tinycoder.py chmod +x ~ /.local/bin/tinycoder tinycoder Quick Start To activate TinyCoder in your current session, run the following command: source <( tinycoder init_shell ) Replace tinycoder with the actual path to the script if it is not on your path. You can also run tinycoder find_free to fins current free models on OpenRouter. # naive prompt ai list all python files modified in the last 24 hours # targeted prompt with fragment sentences ai list all python files modified in the last 24 hours. ignore .venv and…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published. The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way.…

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