Tenx

A sharp command-line tool for AI-assisted coding.

cargo install tenx

📘 Tenx Manual

Features

• AI-assisted code editing and generation.
• Session-based workflow for organized development.
• Preflight checks to ensure the project is consistent before prompting.
• Post-patch checks with automated model feedback and retry on failure.
• Undo, retry and re-edit steps in the session.
• Model agnostic - swap models on the fly, mid-conversation.
• Built-in support for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepInfra, DeepSeek, xAI, Google and Groq, and local models through tools like Ollama.
• Built on libtenx, a Rust library for building AI-assisted coding tools.

Ethos

• Built with an uncompromsing focus on expert developers.
• Rigorous benchmarks to track the performance of our system prompt and interaction protocol against all current models.
• Stay flexible and refuse to commit deeply to any one model or API.
• Supports all practically useful models.

Next up

Tenx is currently a (producive) minimal viable product. The next steps are:

• Improved sessions and session management
• System prompt customization
• Git commit dialect to generate commit messages
• Imrovements to our prompts and dialects, driven by benchmarks
• Neovim plugin based on libtenx

Related Projects

• misanthropy - Complete bindings to the Anthropic API. Built with Tenx.
• ruskel - One-page outlines of Rust crates, used by Tenx to include Rust documentation for prompts. Built with Tenx.
• aider - Pair programming for your terminal. A coding tool with a very similar structure to Tenx, but much further along. If you're looking for a mature tool, this is the one to try.