merakcode 0.1.2 → 0.2.0
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<a href="https://github.com/TongTong313/merakcode/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/TongTong313/merakcode?include_prereleases" alt="Release" /></a>
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- **AI coding**: strong project-level coding across many languages, frameworks, paradigms and styles. Honestly, this part is no different from other AI coding products. You be the judge, and if you like it, a Star is the best way to support us.
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- **Collaboration across products**: MerakCode is designed around people and the agent working together. It has a review interface built specifically for checking what the agent produces (desktop app only) and a complete permission system for what the agent may do. It can also work alongside other AI coding products that ship a CLI, so the collaboration reaches across products.
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- **Model setup**: connect all kinds of model providers (only 8 for now, more to come) as well as local models. MerakCode can also use models through API relay services.
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- **Secure and reliable**: commands the agent runs go into our own OS sandbox. They cannot read key folders such as `~/.ssh` or `~/.aws`, can write only the workspace, temp folders and package manager caches, and need your approval for hosts that are not on the allowlist. This is a small product built by a few people, with no server side (no time to build one...). We don't collect, and couldn't collect, any usage data, so there is nothing of yours to leak.
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- **Secure and reliable**: commands the agent runs go into our own OS sandbox. They cannot read key folders such as `~/.ssh` or `~/.aws`, can write only the workspace, temp folders and package manager caches, and need your approval for hosts that are not on the allowlist (on Windows, set it up once in Settings first; collaboration members' commands do not run in it; for what it does and does not guarantee, see [Permissions and the sandbox](#permissions-and-the-sandbox)). This is a small product built by a few people, with no server side (no time to build one...). We don't collect, and couldn't collect, any usage data, so there is nothing of yours to leak.
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- **Extensible**: MCP, skills, plugins, custom agents and slash commands.
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- **Beyond coding**: AI coding is one of the hardest kinds of task there is, so using MerakCode for other things works just fine.
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- **Build your own**: MerakCode ships an agent SDK, and every MerakCode product is built on it. You can build your own AI coding tool on the same engine.
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### Command line
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The command-line version has no UI. It is for one-off tasks in a terminal, scripts, and editors (through ACP). It shares its config and keys with the desktop app.
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The command-line version has no UI. It is for one-off tasks in a terminal, scripts, and editors (through ACP). It shares its config and keys with the desktop app. It runs on Linux (x64 and arm64, with glibc; musl systems such as Alpine are not supported yet), macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) and Windows (x64 and arm64).
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The command is `merak`. Upgrade later with `merak upgrade` (or `merak update`).
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The command is `merak`. Upgrade later with `merak upgrade` (or `merak update`; `merak upgrade <version>` installs a given version).
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- The install script puts the program in `~/.merakcode/versions/<version>/`. On macOS / Linux the command goes in `~/.local/bin/merak` (the script tells you if that is not on your PATH); on Windows it goes in `~\.merakcode\bin`, which is added to your user PATH.
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- For a mirror, the install script and `merak upgrade` read `MERAKCODE_DOWNLOAD_BASE` (where to download from), and upgrades of an npm install read `MERAKCODE_NPM_REGISTRY`. `MERAKCODE_VERSION`, `MERAKCODE_INSTALL_DIR` and `MERAKCODE_BIN_DIR` pick the version and where it goes.
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- If Linux says the bundled Node does not start, libatomic is usually missing: install `libatomic1` on Debian / Ubuntu, or `libatomic` on Fedora / RHEL.
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To check a command-line archive yourself (`merakcode-<version>-<platform>.tar.gz` or `.zip`; the install scripts already check it for you), put the release's `SHA256SUMS` in the same folder as the archive and run (`SHA256SUMS` lists only the command-line archives, not the desktop installers):
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- Desktop app: on Windows, uninstall it under Settings → Apps; on macOS, drag MerakCode from Applications to the Trash; on Linux, delete the AppImage, or run `sudo apt remove merakcode-desktop` for the `.deb`.
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- Installed with the script: the program is in `~/.merakcode/versions/` (it goes with the folder below); on macOS / Linux also delete `~/.local/bin/merak`; on Windows remove `~\.merakcode\bin` from your user PATH.
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- Config, API keys (kept in plain text in `~/.merakcode/data/auth.json`), sessions, logs, caches and a script-installed program all live in one folder, `~/.merakcode` (on Windows `~` is `C:\Users\<you>`; the `MERAKCODE_HOME` environment variable moves it). Delete it if you no longer need it.
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## Quick start
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For any other service (a local Ollama or LM Studio, a company gateway, or an API relay), click "Add custom provider" under Settings → Models & providers and choose "Compatible API" or "Relay"; on the command line, `merak provider relay` adds a relay. A local model needs no key, but enter one anyway (such as `none`): a provider without a key is not listed.
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Once connected, the model menu turns on only a few current models for each built-in provider (none for OpenRouter), and every model of a custom provider. For other models, click "Add model" at the bottom of the model menu and turn them on under that provider's "Configure" in Settings.
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| `merak run "<task>"` | Run one task and print the result. `-c` continues the last session, `-m` picks the model, `-f` attaches files, `--format json` prints the raw events; the task can also come from a pipe |
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| `merak upgrade` (or `update`) | Upgrade. `--check` only looks for a new version, `--yes` skips the question |
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`merak serve` listens only on `127.0.0.1` by default, but has no password, so any program on this computer can call it. When other programs connect, set the environment variable `MERAKCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD` (HTTP Basic auth; the user name is `merakcode` by default). See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md#the-engines-api).
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