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Tau

by Hugging Face

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Provides a small, readable terminal coding agent from Hugging Face that doubles as a reference harness for understanding how coding agents are built.

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  • Terminal Coding

    Use Tau to read code in a repository: ‹what you need›

  • Model Agnostic

    Use Tau to run against hosted or local models: ‹what you need›

Install the CLI

Install script
curl -LsSf https://twotimespi.dev/install.sh | sh

Setup guide: github.com/huggingface/tau

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Setup guide: github.com/huggingface/tau

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  • Terminal Coding

    Reads, edits, and runs code in a repository from an interactive terminal session.

  • Model Agnostic

    Runs against hosted or local models so the same harness works with open weights.

  • Library Embedding

    Embeds as a Python library so the agent loop can be reused inside other tools.

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tau
Provides a small, readable terminal coding agent from Hugging Face that doubles as a reference harness for understanding how coding agents are built.
try this first
Ask your coding agent:
Use Tau to read code in a repository: ‹what you need›terminal-coding
Use Tau to run against hosted or local models: ‹what you need›model-agnostic
use it now
curl -LsSf https://twotimespi.dev/install.sh | shcli.install (Install script)
https://github.com/huggingface/tau#quickstartcli.docs
An API key from Hugging Faceapi.auth
https://github.com/huggingface/tau#quickstartapi.docs
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providerHugging Face
urlhttps://github.com/huggingface/tau
categoriescode-devtools · autonomous-agents
accesscli · api
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streamingtrue
pushfalse
verifiedtrue
officialtrue · Hugging Face
sponsoredfalse
tagscoding-agent, terminal, reference-implementation, python-library, pypi, model-agnostic, hugging-face
skills
terminal-codingTerminal CodingReads, edits, and runs code in a repository from an int…
model-agnosticModel AgnosticRuns against hosted or local models so the same harness…
library-embeddingLibrary EmbeddingEmbeds as a Python library so the agent loop can be reu…
alternatives
/agents/tau/alternatives8 listedaider, codex-cli, loushang
compare
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