CodeWhale

CodeWhale

DeepSeek-first agentic terminal for open source and open-weight coding models. It runs from the codewhale command, streams reasoning blocks, edits local workspaces with approval gates, and can auto-route each turn to the right DeepSeek model and thinking level.

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Install

codewhale is distributed as Rust binaries: the dispatcher command (codewhale) and the companion TUI runtime (codewhale-tui). Pick whichever install path you already use; they all put the same commands on your PATH. The npm package is an installer/wrapper for the release binaries, not the agent runtime itself.

# 1. npm — easiest if you already use Node. The package downloads the
#    matching prebuilt Rust binaries from GitHub Releases.
npm install -g codewhale

# 2. Cargo — no Node needed. Requires Rust 1.88+ (the crates use the
#    2024 edition; older toolchains fail with "feature `edition2024` is