ante

ante [options] [-p prompt]ante serveante gatewayante update [options]

ante is a self-contained coding agent from Antigma Labs that runs in the terminal. It is distributed as a single Rust binary (~15MB) with no runtime language dependencies. Day-to-day use is an interactive TUI (ante with no arguments); headless one-shots use -p / --prompt.It works with many cloud providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok/xAI, Open Router, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints) via API keys or OAuth, and can also run fully offline against a local GGUF model through a built-in inference engine. Configuration lives under ~/.ante/ (settings, catalog, and optional named profiles).Subcommands cover programmatic embedding (ante serve), chat-platform bots (ante gateway), and self-updates (ante update). Features include multi-agent orchestration, skills, MCP servers, and persistent memory across sessions.

-p, --prompt PROMPT

Run in headless mode with the given prompt and exit when done

Override the model name

Override the API provider (for example anthropic, openai, gemini, xai, openrouter, local)

Use ~/.ante/NAME.settings.json instead of the default settings; ANTE_PROFILE is equivalent

Override model effort: min, low, medium, high, xhigh, or max

Skip all interactive tool approval prompts

Headless output format: json, human, or minimal (default: minimal)

Path to a local GGUF model file; boots built-in local inference and uses the local provider

Resume a previously saved session by ID

Do not persist a transcript or resumable snapshot

After the main task, run a verification pass on the work

Replace the default system prompt entirely

Read a replacement system prompt from a UTF-8 file

Append text to the system prompt

Skip skill discovery; no skills are advertised or invocable

Replace the default tool set with exactly these tools

Add tools on top of the default or --tools set

Remove tools after --tools and --include-tools

Default settings: ~/.ante/settings.jsonNamed profiles: ~/.ante/name.settings.json (select with --profile or ANTE_PROFILE)Provider/model catalog overrides: ~/.ante/catalog.jsonBinary install location defaults to ~/.ante/bin (override with ANTE_INSTALL_DIR during install)

serve

Run as a long-lived daemon over a structured JSONL protocol for editor plugins and integrations

Run Ante as a Slack or Discord bot

Install the latest release; supports --channel and --version

Ante is in alpha/preview: expect breaking changes and incomplete functionality. Official support is macOS and Linux (Windows users are directed to WSL). Headless mode implies auto-approval of tool calls (yolo). Cloud providers need credentials (for example ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY); offline mode needs a local GGUF. The prebuilt binary is free to use during the alpha under separate binary terms; open-source parts of the repository are Apache-2.0. Install via the official script (curl -fsSL https://ante.run/install.sh | bash); distro packages named ante are typically a different project (the Ante programming language).

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