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xenodium
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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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

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.

0123452025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 2026

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Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

5 sources
xenodium·Aug 15, 2026
I recently read someone [1] make the case for a sweet spot blending the best of CLI agents (fast, keyboard-driven, in a terminal) and desktop agents (rich UI: inline images, diffs). This resonated with me as fairly on point to what agent-shell has been going for, except from inside Emacs, which arguably gets you plenty of goodies at once: it's fast and text/keyboard-driven like a terminal, also renders inline images, markdown and tables like a desktop app, but with first class integration into your text editor (no context switch). Also, since it's all elisp, you can bend any of it to your own workflow. This release pulls more of that desktop-like experience with richer TAB navigation, actionable items (resizable images) and a more chat-like experience. Also worth highlighting, agent-shell is vendor-neutral: it speaks ACP, so you can drive
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Claude, Codex, Gemini... without relearning your tools. Repo: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell (also on MELPA). Full 0.73 notes: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates. Feedback welcome. [1] Sorry, I read this somewhere recently but couldn't find it again.
In Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs

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