Ante is a self-contained agent harness with a highly optimized core. The TUI, an embedded ripgrep, local PDF/OCR, and a natively managed llama.cpp engine are all inside. No runtime dependencies, no node_modules, no account.

It works like Claude Code or Codex, with none of their dependencies or model constraints.

See also:

• https://github.com/OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax A minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C.