Show HN: Kana – A terminal agent where the human stays in the loop

Category: devtools

Tags: terminal, ai-agent, cli, developer-tools, memory, local-first

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Kana is a single-binary terminal AI coding agent that emphasizes human-in-the-loop workflows, durable cross-session memory, and self-evolving prompt templates and subagents. It offers a rich TUI with streamed reasoning and diffs, headless JSONL execution for automation, and a privacy-first, zero-telemetry design with multi-provider support.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, terminal power users, AI tooling engineers

Repository: https://github.com/longyijdos/kana · TypeScript · MIT · 8 stars

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