{"id":84718,"title":"Codebuff: Make your terminal write code for you","tagline":"\"Very f****** cool\" CLI for AI code generation","body":"Codebuff is a CLI-based coding agent – invoke it in your Terminal and ask it to write code for you. We launched on BookFace last week and got 500 downloads and 60+ upvotes!\n\nIt’s a Cursor alternative that’s simpler and frequently performs better. Try it out:\n\n```\nnpm install -g codebuff\n```\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/c0fe87b7-bb51-47ac-9023-8cc38ede96cf)\n\n### What people are saying\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/6224e821-9d82-4620-b57f-d428c9af8ea0)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/771297ed-0012-4601-a983-e416463f16fb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/86a6581c-ef41-490e-9a17-b36a5f73f629)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/4c066ef1-ced0-4fc1-b5d4-a16a8ef7609c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/14872fde-79d4-4e53-8491-457e41f4ff5f)\n\n### Fewer clicks, more codebase context\n\nCodebuff is different from all the other coding agents, we swear!\n\n* **It chooses files to read automatically on each message** — unlike Cursor’s composer feature. This saves you time and makes Codebuff respond more comprehensively.\n* **It takes 0 clicks** — type your instructions and Codebuff will edit your files directly. It's simple and fast. Theoretically, you can do all your development by just chatting with it!\n* **It has full access to your existing tools, scripts, and packages** — Codebuff can install packages, run terminal commands and tests, etc. Whatever awk/grep/pip install stuff you used to do, Codebuff can do it for you instead!\n* **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).\n* **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!\n\nCodebuff can write code for every tech stack – we know because we’ve built software from full-stack web apps to IoT device firmware.\n\n\u003chttps://www.tella.tv/video/code-coding-agent-bh6l\u003e\n\n### Offer\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we are giving away **2,500 free Codebuff credits per month** for a limited time to new users!\n\nTo claim, 1. get Codebuff in your terminal:\n\n```bash\nnpm install -g codebuff\n```\n\n2\\. Run `codebuff` in your project directory.\n\n3\\. Finally, enter “login” to sign up and claim the 2,500 free credits.\n\nAlso, **existing users**: you can refer your friends at [codebuff.com/referrals](http://codebuff.com/referrals) — when you refer a friend, you’ll both get **500 credits per month**!\n\n## 🙏 Ask\n\nTry it out and give us feedback! Check out our website \u003chttps://codebuff.com\u003e\n\nIf you have any thoughts, please join our Discord: \u003chttps://discord.gg/mcWTGjgTj3\u003e. We love love love all feedback, positive and negative! Even slightly backhanded ones like this 😅:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/b24d3c54-1d2c-4bca-8c2f-37a65f0fb8d1)\n\nSo please try Codebuff out and let us know what you think!","slug":"M2Q-codebuff-make-your-terminal-write-code-for-you","created_at":"2024-10-12T00:23:25.975Z","updated_at":"2026-04-30T02:16:52.251Z","total_vote_count":62,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M2Q-codebuff-make-your-terminal-write-code-for-you","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=84718\u0026key=user_uploads/209148/c0fe87b7-bb51-47ac-9023-8cc38ede96cf","company":{"id":30063,"name":"Codebuff","slug":"codebuff","url":"https://codebuff.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7e79d88ee27d8bcba8981ffbb6cfd8dfaee476e3.png","batch":"Fall 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30063"}}