TRtrelane·Jan 29, 2026Submission
Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP
37 points · Open discussionxenodium
agent-shell
Emacs Lisp2025–2026
xenodium / agent-shell
agent-shell
Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home: familiar buffers and bindings, no terminal emulation. Powered by ACP.
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What to know before exploring
What it is
Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home: familiar buffers and bindings, no terminal emulation. Powered by ACP.
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
Not who you replied to, but: I use agent-shell and I love the ecosystem that's being created there: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell And for claude interacting back with…
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- dakra/ghostel · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:01:32 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month23 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-10-12 20:05:42 UTC to 2026-10-29 13:37:15 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesFor most of 2025, I ignored popular agents because I wanted to stay within my preferred text editor (Emacs). Thanks to ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com), I no longer live under a rock ;) I built https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and now get a native experience. Claude Code works great. If curious what that looks like, I made a video recently https://xenodium.com/bending-emacs-episode-10-agent-shell
In I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0