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Dev tools · March 5, 2026

Cook – A portable terminal AI agent (OSS, MIT)

A portable terminal AI agent that runs tasks in natural language. One binary. No runtime. Works with any LLM provider.

Cook – A portable terminal AI agent (OSS, MIT) launched on March 5, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

cook is a shell-native AI agent that runs tasks you describe in plain English — right from your terminal. No editor plugins. No subscriptions. No runtime dependencies. Just a single binary that works with the LLM provider you already have (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, or Vercel AI Gateway). Download it, set an API key, and you're running in 10 seconds. curl -fsSL https://getcook.dev/install.sh | sh

oooo `888 .ooooo. .ooooo. .ooooo. 888 oooo d88' `"Y8 d88' `88b d88' `88b 888 .8P' 888 888 888 888 888 888888. 888 .o8 888 888 888 888 888 `88b. `Y8bod8P' `Y8bod8P' `Y8bod8P' o888o o888o A portable terminal AI agent. Most AI tools lock you into an editor or a subscription. cook lives in your shell and works with pipes, scripts, and cron. Pipes in, stdout out. Works with your existing scripts and workflows. Swap between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, or Vercel AI Gateway with a flag. Compiles to a standalone executable. No Node, no Python, no runtime. Every file write and destructive command requires your explicit approval. Save prompts as .md files. Run them with cook /deploy . Compatible…from getcook.dev

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