Jim Manico

Manicode is a CLI-based coding agent – invoke it in your terminal and ask it to write code for you. Manicode is the easiest code generation tool to use because you simply chat with it and it makes changes. We built it as a serious engineering tool, designed for editing mature codebases. Manicode does a lot of things differently: - **It chooses files to read automatically on each message** — unlike Cursor’s composer feature. This saves you time and makes Manicode more focused and useful for every task. - **It takes 0 clicks** — Manicode just edits your files directly (you can always peek at the **`git diff`**s to see what it’s doing). So theoretically, you can do all your development by just chatting with it! - **It has full access to your existing tools, scripts, and packages** — Manicode can install packages, run terminal commands and tests, etc. Whatever awk/grep/pip install stuff you used to do, Manicode can do it for you instead! - **It is portable to *any* development environment —** no lock-in here! Feel free to bring your IDE: VSCode, Cursor, Vim, Emacs, Replit, or plain text editor (if you’re a monster). - **We don’t store your codebase** — we just pass individual files along to OpenAI and Anthropic as is necessary to generate code. We didn’t even have a database until a couple weeks ago!