[HN Gopher] Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
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Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
Also: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-5-improvements
Author : Karrot_Kream
Score : 73 points
Date : 2025-10-12 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| celeritascelery wrote:
| Agent shell is what I always wanted. I have been using many of
| the different Claude code integrations packages and they are
| really good. But there is always some friction because I need to
| run it in a terminal emulator. With agent shell it feels so much
| more integrated and natural.
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| I am really excited for these improvements, especially reading
| the env from a file.
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| I wish that agent-shell-sidebar had some screenshots though so I
| could see what it actually does.
| xenodium wrote:
| agent-shell: A single native Emacs experience to interact with
| different AI agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol)
| https://agentclientprotocol.com
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| So far, agent-shell can interact with Claude Code, Gemini CLI,
| Codex, and Goose, but can technically work with any ACP-powered
| agent.
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| ps. agent-shell needs more sponsors to become sustainable
| https://github.com/sponsors/xenodium
| dorian-graph wrote:
| I've used it a few times now. It's a really smooth experience for
| quite a new package.
| mg74 wrote:
| I am waiting for someone to build this for Neovim.
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| Come on, you unknown hero!
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| (and thanks to the Zed team and Google for building the spec)
| didibus wrote:
| There's another project called ECA: https://github.com/editor-
| code-assistant/eca
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| I think the difference is ECA is a coding agent with a LSP-like
| protocol for various frontend and editors, which itself supports
| many models.
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| Where as agent protocol if I understand lets you use many agents
| like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, well assuming they support the
| protocol, using various frontend?
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| Though I guess other coding agents could also adopt the ECA
| protocol maybe.
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