agented
activeA text editor for LLMs, not humans. Take ed, the line editor that nobody has voluntarily used since about 1975, and rebuild it for an environment where the typing user is a language model. Short verbs, line addresses, no modes, no TUI. What an editor optimises for changes when the user is the model: round trips per task, tokens per command, an editing buffer with a long memory, and an undo tree that remembers the branches the agent abandoned, because that's often where the interesting work was. ## Features - **Fewer round trips.** Read-before-Edit is unnecessary; on conflict the response carries the new content so you reconcile in one call instead of pre-reading every time. - **Branching undo.** Walked-back work stays addressable instead of being thrown away when you pick a different path. - **Three-way merge.** Concurrent agents get a structured conflict response instead of a silent overwrite. - **Atomic batches.** Multi-file refactors run all-or-nothing instead of leaving half-applied state on failure. - **Cross-file moves and regex replace as primitives.** Operations the built-in tools can't express cleanly become single calls. - **Drift detection.** External edits to an open file are folded into the tree instead of being clobbered by the next write. - **Inline diagnostics.** Type errors and lint findings surface on save, not at the next build many edits later. - **Cross-session memory.** Per-file notes persist between sessions and surface inline on the next open. - **Audit log.** Every operation recorded with actor and timestamp, so two agents in one workspace can't argue about who moved the head. ## Multi-workspace (v0.4.0) One MCP server registration handles every project you mention. Tool calls route to the workspace owning the absolute path you pass; each project gets its own SQLite, its own undo tree, its own LSP daemon — lazily spawned on first touch. Desktop hosts (Claude Desktop, Codex Desktop, Cursor) install the server once globally and use it across projects without per-project config. ## Install `ae` must be installed locally; this MCP bundle registers `ae serve` as a stdio server. ```sh brew tap frane/tap && brew install agented # or curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frane/agented/master/install.sh | sh ``` Pure Go, single static binary, Apache 2.0. Source: https://github.com/frane/agented
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- github.com/frane/agented
- Package
- smithery: frane/agented
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npx -y @smithery/cli install frane/agentedThe usual command for this package registry; check the repository README for required settings.- License
- not declared
- Last update
- 2026-09-23
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