Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)

Xenodium is doing amazing things for emacs. If you enjoy this or are generally emacs interested, I’d check out his blog @ https://xenodium.com/

I also purchased my first iOS app upon recommendation from other emacs users - the author’s app, Journelly. A simple portable place to save down links or notes and export out as org files (as one option; apparently markdown is on the way). https://xenodium.com/journelly-for-ios

No affiliation to Xenodium. I’ve just been diving into emacs this year and love seeing his contributions.

agent-shell: A single native Emacs experience to interact with different AI agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol) https://agentclientprotocol.com

So far, agent-shell can interact with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Goose, but can technically work with any ACP-powered agent.

ps. agent-shell needs more sponsors to become sustainable https://github.com/sponsors/xenodium

Agent shell is what I always wanted. I have been using many of the different Claude code integrations packages and they are really good. But there is always some friction because I need to run it in a terminal emulator. With agent shell it feels so much more integrated and natural.

I am really excited for these improvements, especially reading the env from a file.

I wish that agent-shell-sidebar had some screenshots though so I could see what it actually does.

Xenodium is doing great work for Emacs community. I am currently using `agent-shell` but I don't like the header added on the top of the buffer. I already have all information I want at the bottom. The bottom line you have make it optional so that minimalists can choose to remove it.

I've used it a few times now. It's a really smooth experience for quite a new package.

This is the first I hear of ACP… how does it compare to AG-UI? Well, obviously this is coding-specific and AG-UI aims to be generic… but beyond that obvious point?

So why would one want to use this verses using Claude Code directly?

There's another project called ECA: https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca

I think the difference is ECA is a coding agent with a LSP-like protocol for various frontend and editors, which itself supports many models.

Where as agent protocol if I understand lets you use many agents like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, well assuming they support the protocol, using various frontend?

Though I guess other coding agents could also adopt the ECA protocol maybe.

I am waiting for someone to build this for Neovim.

Come on, you unknown hero!

(and thanks to the Zed team and Google for building the spec)