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Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home: familiar buffers and bindings, no terminal emulation. Powered by ACP.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 22 comments · first 2025-10-12 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. hmm, I haven't tried Carbon yet. But I have been using Argon on and off via agent-shell - https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and unofficial ACP client. In my limited usage, it has fixed issues which has not been correctly fixed by…
    comment by gnufied · 2026-10-29 · in Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
  2. Not who you replied to, but: I use agent-shell and I love the ecosystem that's being created there: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell And for claude interacting back with emacs: Some folks like having an MCP package. I agree that…
    comment by jaaron · 2026-10-28 · in Emacs Turns 50
  3. Emacs makes for excellent Agent harness. With https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/ , this is the only UI I use for working with agents. What makes this great is infinite hack-ability of the interface and agents have become pretty good…
    comment by gnufied · 2026-10-02 · in DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
  4. …of Agent Client Protocol https://agentclientprotocol.com ps. I built Emacs integration through ACP https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell
    comment by xenodium · 2026-09-04 · in Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
  5. Never heard of that one. The most popular ways for agent stuff seems to be https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell , or just opening a terminal in emacs and using claude code. If you want to run it through an emacs terminal, consider using…
    comment by internet_points · 2026-08-27 · in Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
  6. Agent Shell connected via ACP to local Claude Code. https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell
    comment by remedan · 2026-08-27 · in Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
  7. You should give https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and https://github.com/dakra/ghostel a shot. With ghostel I genuinely mix up which window (frame) is emacs rather than the native Ghostty window.
    comment by greggroth · 2026-08-25 · in What's new in Emacs 31.1
  8. …mode you don't need that, you can use an acp (agent-client protocol) client like agent-shell - https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell I've tried it with cursor and it works okay.
    comment by znpy · 2026-08-21 · in Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  9. …it speaks ACP, so you can drive Claude, Codex, Gemini... without relearning your tools. Repo: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell (also on MELPA). Full 0.73 notes: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates . Feedback welcome. [1]…
    comment by xenodium · 2026-08-15 · in Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs
  10. Also, if a slash command is missing, that's because the model's ACP client doesn't implement it: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell#why-doesnt-agent-she...
    comment by joshuastuden · 2026-06-19 · in Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
  11. …to, and I have no idea what they were referring to, but I use agent-shell.el and it is incredible: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell xenodium is doing some amazing work (and not just on agent-shell, either!)
    comment by wilkystyle · 2026-06-19 · in Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
  12. I use it via the gnu emacs integration :P https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell
    comment by znpy · 2026-05-20 · in Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
  13. …by using cursor the agent but not the UI. I'm just running cursor in GNU Emacs via agent-shell ( https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell ). Their cli client (aptly named "agent") supports ACP (agent client protocol) so the UI can be…
    comment by znpy · 2026-05-20 · in Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
  14. Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills
    comment by aag · 2026-04-06 · in The Agent-Native Editor Was Invented in 1976
  15. …for some very cool integrations[1]. There are a fair number of other clients[2] as well. [0]: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQ86HuSIJI [2]: https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/clients
    comment by spudlyo · 2026-03-07 · in Helix: A post-modern text editor
  16. …goes over ACP between Emacs and the agent. You can inspect the traffic using agent-shell itself. https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#h... > Is that just sending to the shell? The compose buffer is an UX abstraction…
    comment by xenodium · 2026-02-03 · in Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP
  17. As an aside: have you thought about using agent-shell? https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell
    comment by mimischi · 2026-02-02 · in Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
  18. …custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands. Should be possible in newer versions of agent-shell (see https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/237 )
    comment by xenodium · 2026-02-01 · in Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP
  19. …Thanks to ACP ( https://agentclientprotocol.com ), I no longer live under a rock ;) I built https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and now get a native experience. Claude Code works great. If curious what that looks like, I made a video…
    comment by xenodium · 2026-01-20 · in I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0
  20. …I nudged the package author for a screenshot. Having said that, you can see it in action here: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/55
    comment by xenodium · 2025-10-14 · in Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
  21. …the top of the buffer Please file a feature request, so we can make the graphical header optional: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/issues
    comment by xenodium · 2025-10-13 · in Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
  22. https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell A native Emacs shell mode to interact with multiple LLM agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol) https://agentclientprotocol.com
    comment by xenodium · 2025-10-12 · in Agent Shell 0.5 Improvements