andreylukin/bough

A terminal coding agent where the model writes one program instead of calling tools one at a time.

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0.4 Quiet Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A terminal coding agent where the model writes a single JavaScript program instead of calling tools one at a time. Every part — provider, loop, tools, UI, MCP — is a plugin configured in YAML.

Useful for

Run the agent inside a git repo so it patches files and runs tests in one program
Plug in your own Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or Cerebras key and work in the TUI
Run bough --headless in a script or benchmark and consume events as JSON

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

Hacker News: “Show HN: Bough, the agent I built to replace Claude Code at work” — 10 points, 3 days ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 9
Stars in a day: 0
Forks: 1
Issues and pull requests: 67
Watchers: 1
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.2.7 · September 15, 2026
Created: June 18, 2026
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: Bough, the agent I built to replace Claude Code at work10 points, September 15, 2026

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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September 15, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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