Mindweave (mwcode)

A fast, model-adaptive, terminal-native AI coding agent.
You bring your own key. It runs on your machine. Nothing goes anywhere else.

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What it is

Mindweave is a coding agent that lives in your terminal and works inside your repository: reading, searching, editing, running commands, and checking its own work.

It runs entirely on your machine. There is no backend, no telemetry and no account. Your code and your API key never reach a Mindweave server, because there isn't one.

It is built lean on purpose. Most of a coding agent's context budget goes on scaffolding the model never needed. Mindweave keeps prompts thin and leaves the room for the model to reason about your code.

Mindweave 1

Mindweave 1 is out, tagged mindweave-1. It is on npm, and the website is up. Install with the steps below.

What landed in it is in the changelog: fourteen model providers, a rebuilt terminal interface, reworked prompt caching and token accounting, project notes the agent maintains across sessions, and a long list of things that were quietly wrong.

Install

Requires Windows and Node.js 20+. macOS and Linux are not supported yet, and the reason is written down in KNOWN-ISSUES.md rather than glossed over.

npm install -g mindweave

Then, in any project:

cd your-project
mindweave          # or mw, for short

To build from source instead — for development, or to run an unreleased change:

git clone https://github.com/mindweave-cli/Mindweave
cd Mindweave
npm install
npm run build
npm link          # makes the `mindweave` command available globally

It asks for an API key on first launch and saves it to ~/.mindweave/.env, so every project afterwards just works. mindweave --help covers the launch flags; everything else is configured inside a session.

What it can do

Short version, one line each. The depth is in the linked pages.

• 15 providers, 53 models, one key — DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, xAI, Mistral, Groq, Cerebras, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Meta, MiniMax, Tencent, plus every tool-capable model on OpenRouter. Only the driver you use is loaded. Switch with /provider and /model; remembered per project. PROVIDERS.md
• Real tools — read and edit files, multi-file edits, ripgrep search, a shell with background jobs, and sub-agents. Every edit comes back with the language server's own errors for that file. Read-before-edit is enforced, and /undo is a real net.
• Deterministic code intelligence — a background lane indexes your repo with tree-sitter and language servers, costing no tokens, so the agent understands the codebase, not just the open file.
• Session memory — automatic compaction plus a running state summary that survives it, and the agent can read its own earlier sessions in a project.
• Project notes — MINDWEAVE.md is loaded every session and maintained by the agent; @./path imports split it, a per-folder one applies only there, and ~/.mindweave/ holds machine-wide notes. /init writes the first one.
• MCP servers — connect external tool servers with /mcp add or in plain words; their output is untrusted by default. docs/MCP.md
• Images and web search — drop a screenshot or write @shot.png; ask about a recent release and it looks it up, through your own provider.
• Seeing your app — it can capture one named window (never the whole screen, and it asks first) to tell an app that started from one that works.
• Per-project governor — standing rules, reusable skills, and forbidden paths or commands the agent must respect.

Using it

Command	What it does
/help	Lists every command
/init	Writes MINDWEAVE.md, the project notes loaded every session
/provider · /model · /think	Who answers, which model, how hard it reasons
/clear · /continue	Start fresh, or resume an earlier session
/undo	Reverts what the last turn changed
/update	Installs the newest version and reopens on this conversation
/mcp	Manages connected MCP servers
/feedback	Sends the maintainer a message, no account needed
shift-tab	Cycles interaction modes

Type while it works and your message queues; press up to take it back and edit it.

Read more

CHANGELOG.md	What changed, and what each fix actually was
KNOWN-ISSUES.md	What is broken or unfinished, written down rather than carried quietly
PHILOSOPHY.md	How the project is run and what gets into the core. Short, and the honest version
BOUNDARY.md	What belongs in the core versus a driver
CONTRIBUTING.md	Mechanics, and what is most useful to report
SECURITY.md	Reporting a vulnerability
docs/MCP.md	Connecting and trusting MCP servers

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, especially model drivers: Ollama is a stub waiting for someone, and a driver is a smaller job than people expect, owning one provider's wire format and nothing about how the agent behaves.

Small fixes and reproduced bugs with a failing test can go straight to a pull request. For anything larger, start a Discussion first. AI-assisted contributions are fine; the one rule is that you understand and have tested what you are submitting.

Bug reports are genuinely the most useful thing you can send. Mindweave is developed by running it on real projects and fixing what breaks, and nearly everything in the changelog started as a failure someone watched happen. What to include, and what is especially worth reporting.

Questions are welcome at zallinimann@gmail.com

License

Apache License 2.0.