polytoken

About

Polytoken exists because its author wanted a coding harness that no vendor can take away, and the homepage argues that case in the first person rather than with a feature list. The shape of the product follows: a long-running daemon owns conversations, permissions, and tool execution on your machine, while the terminal UI attaches to it as a client, which is why a session survives a front end that dies and can be reattached later. Almost everything the model sees is editable text. Facets are Markdown personas that swap the system prompt and the tool set; the shipped plan facet investigates with read-only shell access, writes a handoff plan, runs a plan-reviewer, and asks before work moves into the execute facet; skills use the Agent Skills SKILL.md format and load from project or global directories; hooks fire on lifecycle events such as post_clear. A zero-config first run walks you through creating a provider and configuring web search, and the provider list is broad by design — the author's own setup orchestrates GLM-5.2 through z.ai over a pile of GPT 5.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash models, and custom Anthropic- or OpenAI-compatible endpoints are first-class. It installs as a checksum-verified binary for Linux and macOS on amd64 and arm64 and is free under a proprietary end-user license, which makes it a fit for developers who want to own the loop without giving up a polished terminal UI.