morganlinton / Albatross
Open source, terminal-first AI coding agent with fully transparent multi-model routing. Local (Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, llama.cpp) or cloud, your keys, one TUI. No black box.
Why this job: says: coding agent, ai coding; topics: coding-agent, ai-coding-assistant, harness

What it does
A coding agent that lives in your terminal. Bring your own API key (OpenAI or OpenRouter) or point it at a local model (Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, llama.cpp) — same tools, same commands, same session log either way. It ships with the usual tool kit — read, edit, grep, shell, run tests — plus a few that aren't usual:
Get started
brew install morganlinton/tap/albatross - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 49 days ago
- Stars
- 243
- On GitHub
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v2.5.0
- Released 49 days ago
- Built with
- Rust
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 14% closed
- 6 still open
- Pull requests
- 36 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 44
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Rust 100%
- Ruby <1%
Topics
- harness
- llms
- ai-coding-agent
- ai-coding-assistant
- cli
- coding-agent
- developer-tools
- llama-cpp
- llm
- mlx
- ollama
- openrouter
Project record
- JobCoding agents
- StatusListed
- Commits258
- Forks24
- Watching4
- Stars in 28 days+6
- CreatedApr 25, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026
