Folder-based projects
No import step or separate workspace setup. Choose a folder and BearCode keys its context, trust, settings, and history to that path.
Native macOS agent manager
BearCode AI
A simple tool for using AI. Any model. Your keys. Your machine.
Free & open source · Bring your own keys · Local models via Ollama
FeaturesThe project, the tools, and the changes. All in view.
BearCode starts with a folder. That path anchors the conversation, project instructions, permissions, terminal, browser, and review panel, so you can follow the work without losing track of what the agent opened, ran, or changed.
Live activity
Commands, file operations, browser actions, citations, and generated artifacts appear in the conversation as they happen.
Review & diffs
Changed files collect in the review panel, each with a Monaco view of the file and its diff before anything is accepted.
Worktree isolation
Run risky work on its own git branch, then merge the branch or resolve conflicts without leaving BearCode.
The .agents spine
Rules, skills, workflows, hooks, memory, and plugins live as plain files in .agents/, so project behavior stays legible and portable.
Connect Hermes
Chat with a self-hosted Hermes agent from a dedicated surface over a native WebSocket or a legacy OpenAI-compatible gateway.
Curated model routersStop picking models. Pick the right bear.
Ursa and Ursus classify each turn by its actual deliverable, route it to a curated role, and expose four modes for coding, deliberation, research, and review.
FRONTIER ROUTER
Ursa
Cross-provider routing across frontier models, with provider-aware fallback and per-turn transparency.
OPEN + LOCAL ROUTER
Ursus
The same routing, pipeline, Council, Research, and Review system using OpenRouter and local Ollama.
URSA ROUTING TRACELIVE DEMO
YOUR TASK
Help me decide how to structure a plugin system before we build it.
CLASSIFY→ARCHITECT→CLAUDE OPUS 5
Code
Route each turn to the best role. Explicit multi-part work can become a short, approval-gated pipeline.
Council
Three models answer independently, peer-review anonymously, and hand the evidence to a separate chair.
Deep Research
A fixed search, analysis, and writing pipeline delivers a comprehensive, citation-backed report.
Review
A panel audits code quality, security, accessibility, and performance before chairing the findings.
BearCode CLIFull agent power. Zero window switching.
The terminal companion is a complete coding agent with persistent sessions, autonomous goals, parallel swarms, built-in subagents, custom tools, and multiple providers.
Autonomous goals
Define the finish line. BearCode continues across turns until the goal is complete, paused, blocked, or out of budget.
Parallel agent swarms
Expand one task across many subagents, watch live progress, and collect a single aggregated result.
Persistent sessions
Resume, fork, compact, rename, export, and undo conversation context without losing your place.
Coder, Explore, Plan
Delegate implementation, read-only discovery, and architecture to isolated built-in subagents.
Tools, skills, and MCP
Files, shell, web, media, background jobs, cron, hooks, plugins, and stdio/HTTP/SSE MCP with OAuth.
Your provider
Anthropic, OpenAI, Responses API, Google GenAI, Vertex AI, Kimi, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
BearCode CLI is a rebranded fork of Moonshot AI's kimi-code, used under the MIT license. Upstream does the heavy lifting — this fork changes the branding and removes the upstream updater, telemetry, and promo-banner integrations. Source & full attribution →
Give the bear something to do.
Download BearCode, point it at your messiest folder, and watch the first run.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel · Free and open source