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News / 2026-07-15

Introducing Elph

A local, opinionated coding agent harness — TUI, headless run, and ACP — with the repo on disk and the model you already pay for.

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    Elph is an opinionated AI coding agent harness. It is not a browser chat product. You open a repository, describe the outcome, and the agent works through a native tool loop: read, edit, search, shell, and verify.

    Three surfaces ship in one binary:

    • elph — interactive TUI (keyboard-first, mouse support, streaming transcript)
    • elph run — headless prompts for scripts and CI
    • elph acp --stdio — Agent Client Protocol for editors

    Install:

    sh 
    curl -fsSL https://elph.space/install.sh | bash

    Or cargo install --locked elph (Rust ≥ 1.97). Linux and macOS, x86_64 and arm64.

    The application is Apache-2.0. The libraries (elph-ai, elph-agent, elph-tui, floppy) are MIT. The project is actively developed — read the release notes before you upgrade.