SMRTR ProgrammingAug 10, 2026Hacker News

Keen Code – an agentic-engineered coding agent

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Keen Code is a lightweight, terminal-based AI coding agent written in Go, built as a leaner alternative to Claude Code or Codex CLI. It supports multiple LLM providers, a minimal six-tool set, skills, and multi-agent orchestration. Notably, the entire project was built by AI agents following a strict spec-plan-task-review cycle, demonstrating AI-assisted development at its most self-referential.

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