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Crush
Charm's Go terminal coding agent (glamorous TUI) with LSP context, MCP, multi-provider via the Catwalk model registry, and an optional Charm Hyper subscription provider.
v0.98.2 released 2026-10-23; repo pushed 2026-10-25. (checked 2026-10-25)
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Where it stands apart
- How is the main thing licensed? copyleft or source-available with restrictions (5% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (71% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? company with a paid product, tier, or ads (71% of 21 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (52% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (95% of 21 others)
- How does finished work usually come back to you? edits in your local working tree while you watch (52% of 21 others)
- Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) (67% of 21 others)
- Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? yes, documented (67% of 21 others)
- Where do the commands it runs execute by default? on your machine with your user's permissions (86% of 21 others)
- Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? yes (95% of 21 others)
- Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? yes, alongside its own file (52% of 21 others)
- When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? with your own API key or local model (the tool itself is free) (52% of 21 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Cline 82% of 17 shared answers match
- Continue 82% of 17 shared answers match
- Zed 82% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart copyleft or source-available with restrictions FSL-1.1-MIT (Functional Source License, converts to MIT after two years). | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads Charm sells Hyper, a subscription model provider for Crush. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes Local providers: Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, etc. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | optional account Charm Hyper login optional; any provider API key works. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP plus AGENTS.md; Catwalk registry is its own. Close call with AGENTS.md. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you primarily use it? | terminal (CLI or TUI) | source 2026-10-25 |
| How does finished work usually come back to you? | edits in your local working tree while you watch | source 2026-10-25 |
| Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. | any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? | yes, documented README 'Local Models' section with Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio examples. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Out of the box, does it ask you before editing files or running shell commands? | asks before edits and before commands "By default, Crush will ask you for permission before running tool calls"; --yolo skips. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where do the commands it runs execute by default? | on your machine with your user's permissions | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? | yes stdio, http and sse transports. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? | yes, alongside its own file Reads AGENTS.md and CRUSH.md; /init writes AGENTS.md by default. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for agent-editor connections? | no No ACP mention in README. | source 2026-10-25 |
| When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? | with your own API key or local model (the tool itself is free) Hyper subscription is promoted as the quickest start, but any provider key works. | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
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- GitHub · github.com/charmbracelet/crush · read 2026-10-25
- GitHub · github.com/charmbracelet/crush/blob/main/LICENSE.md · read 2026-10-25
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