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A coding agent
that lives where
you actually work .

Elyra is a self-extensible AI coding agent for the terminal — unified across 30+ models, scriptable from the ground up, and yours to shape. No editor lock-in. No subscription. No telemetry.

Read the quickstart Browse documentation

Install in one command

$ npm i -g @elyracode/coding-agent

Tokens: −30%
Providers: 30+
Price: Free

~/projects/elyra-web

❯ elyra "refactor auth flow to use policies"

→ planning · 3 files · 2 tools

✓ read app/Http/Controllers/Auth/LoginController.php

✓ edit app/Policies/UserPolicy.php

⟳ test php artisan test --filter=Auth

PASS Tests: 24 passed, 0 failed

$ npm i -g @elyracode/coding-agent

Fig. 01 — Live session 00:00:04

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−30%

Average token reduction via smart routing & context compaction.

— 02

30+

Model providers unified behind one streaming API.

— 03

00.00

Telemetry events sent. Your sessions never leave your machine.

— 04

Free

No subscription. No paid tier. You bring the keys.

Smart Model Routing

Save up to 30%
on every project

Elyra auto-selects cheap, fast models for simple tasks — file reads, small edits, lookups — and reserves powerful frontier models for the work that actually needs them.

Token-aware routing per turn, not per session
Cost tracking across all 30+ providers
Context compaction keeps long sessions cheap
Override anytime with /model or Ctrl+P

Learn how routing works

routing.log

turn 1  · read package.json
  → claude-haiku     ($0.0003)

turn 2  · grep for usages
  → gpt-4o-mini      ($0.0008)

turn 3  · refactor auth flow
  → claude-sonnet    ($0.041)

turn 4  · summarize changes
  → claude-haiku     ($0.0004)

──────────────────────────────────
session total      $0.042
vs. all-sonnet     $0.061
saved             31%

S.02 — Position

Most agents pick a side.
Elyra picks yours.

One vendor, one editor, one workflow — most tools decide for you. Elyra is built around the opposite assumption: that the person at the keyboard knows best, and the agent should adapt.

Independent & private

No accounts. No telemetry. No paid tier. Your keys, your data, your machine.

Zero vendor lock-in

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Bedrock, local models — one unified streaming API.

Built to be extended

Tools, skills, prompt templates, themes, providers. Drop-in extensions in a single file.

Features

Everything in one binary

A complete agent runtime — tools, sessions, memory, UI — installed with a single npm command.

30+ LLM Providers

Unified streaming API with cost tracking across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Bedrock and more.

Built-in Tools

Read, write, edit, bash, grep, find. Everything an agent needs, with safety rails.

Session Management

Branching sessions, context compaction, HTML export, full audit trail.

Extension System

Custom tools, skills, prompt templates, themes and hooks — discovered automatically.

Rich Terminal UI

Differential rendering, markdown, syntax highlighting, image and editor support.

Web UI Components

Lit components for embedding chat, artifacts and model pickers in your app.

Smart Model Routing

Auto-selects cheap models for simple tasks, powerful ones for complex work.

Codebase Memory

Persists project knowledge across sessions — no re-explaining your stack.

Stack Profiles

TALL, VILT, RILT and more. Auto-detected. Drop-in expert context per stack.

Project Setup

/init detects your stack, creates AGENTS.md, blueprints and snippets directories, and suggests extensions.

Reusable Snippets

/snippet sends saved instructions from .elyra/snippets/ — release flows, review checklists, canned prompts.

Multi-Agent Swarm

/swarm build, review and refactor pipelines chain focused agent stages with visual progress.

Ecosystem

An ecosystem that grows with you

Install only what you need. Every package is opt-in and works standalone.

Core libraries

@elyracode/coding-agent

The Elyra CLI — TUI, sessions, project setup (/init), memory, snippets, tools, and SDK

@elyracode/agent-core

General-purpose agent runtime — transport abstraction, state management, attachments

@elyracode/ai

Unified LLM API — automatic model discovery and provider configuration

@elyracode/tui

Terminal UI library with differential rendering for text-based applications

@elyracode/web-ui

Reusable web components for AI chat interfaces powered by @elyracode/ai

Extensions

@elyracode/anna

Anna.js — Markdown presentations with terminal animations, code playgrounds and Mermaid

@elyracode/subagents

Delegate to focused child agents — scout, reviewer, planner, worker, oracle

@elyracode/swarm

Multi-agent pipelines — /swarm build, review and refactor with visual progress

@elyracode/doctor

Health checks — security, deps, code quality

@elyracode/test-gen

Test generation — Pest for Laravel, Vitest for TypeScript

@elyracode/perf-tools

Performance analysis — N+1 queries, missing indexes, eager loading

@elyracode/design-tools

Browser preview, screenshots, Tailwind consistency

@elyracode/design-lookup

Extract design systems from any website — colors, typography, spacing, components

@elyracode/flux-ui

Flux UI tools — live component index, page generator

@elyracode/db-tools

Query MySQL, ClickHouse and SQLite with schema awareness

@elyracode/http-tools

API testing, OpenAPI parsing, live docs fetch

@elyracode/git-intel

Git intelligence — session briefings, commit messages, PR descriptions

@elyracode/docker

Docker — container exec, log tailing, compose operations, .env sync

@elyracode/herd

Laravel Herd — environment detection, services, error logs, .env sync

@elyracode/laravel-starters

Fetch official Laravel 13.x starter kits

@elyracode/i18n-tools

Localization — find hardcoded strings, missing translations across locales

@elyracode/lsp-typescript

TypeScript LSP — go-to-definition, find-references, diagnostics, hover

@elyracode/lsp-php

New

PHP/Laravel LSP — go-to-definition, find-references, diagnostics, hover

@elyracode/seo

SEO & LLM optimization — audit, llms.txt, schema.org, meta tags

@elyracode/workflows

Code-orchestrated pipelines — prompt, run, if, parallel steps with template interpolation

@elyracode/laravel

Deep Laravel project understanding — models, relationships, routes, architecture analysis

@elyracode/btw

Side conversations — /btw, /btw:inject, /btw:summarize, /btw:thread for parallel questions

@elyracode/youtrack

YouTrack — issue CRUD, comments, tags, links, projects, knowledge base, time tracking

@elyracode/semantic-index

Local semantic code search — embed your codebase and find code by meaning, not keywords

Stack profiles

@elyracode/stack-tall

TALL — Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire 4, Flux UI

@elyracode/stack-vilt

VILT — Vue 3, Inertia, Laravel, Tailwind

@elyracode/stack-rilt

RILT — React 19, Inertia 2, Laravel, shadcn/ui

@elyracode/stack-silt

New

SILT — Svelte 5, Inertia, Laravel, Tailwind

@elyracode/stack-primevue

PrimeVue 4 — 80+ components for Vue 3

@elyracode/stack-filament

Filament v5 — admin panels, resources, multi-tenancy

@elyracode/stack-laravel-ai

Laravel AI SDK — agents, tools, embeddings, vector stores

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Quickstart

Up and running in minutes

Install

One npm command, zero dependencies.

Set an API key

Bring your own provider keys.

Start coding

Run `elyra` in any project.

Extend

Drop in tools, skills and themes.

~/my-project

# 1. Install
$ npm install -g @elyracode/coding-agent

# 2. Configure a provider
$ export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
$ export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# 3. Run it in your project
$ cd my-project && elyra

# 4. Optional: add stack profile
$ npm install -g @elyracode/stack-tall

Comparison

Why developers choose Elyra

Most agents are a cloud product with a chat box. Elyra is a tool you own — and the architecture shows it.

Typical agent

Elyra

Where it runs

Your code, your machine.

Typical agent

Cloud-hosted service. Code is uploaded to vendor servers for processing.

Elyra

Local CLI. Code never leaves your machine, except to the LLM provider you choose.

LLM providers

Who you can use.

Typical agent

Locked to one or two models from a single vendor.

Elyra

30+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Groq, DeepSeek, and more. Switch mid-session.

Cost model

What you actually pay.

Typical agent

Subscription, often with usage caps and unpredictable overage.

Elyra

Bring your own API key. Pay providers directly. Typical 30-min session: $0.10–0.50.

Context strategy

How sessions stay efficient.

Typical agent

Re-reads files every turn. Burns output tokens on tool results.

Elyra

Smart compaction, context pinning, 60–80% cache hits, model routing for cheap subtasks.

Extensibility

Shape it to your stack.

Typical agent

Plugin marketplace controlled by the vendor.

Elyra

Drop-in TypeScript extensions. Stack profiles, tools, skills, themes, providers — all installable as npm packages.

Session control

Own your history.

Typical agent

Linear chat thread, stored server-side.

Elyra

Resume, fork, branch, and export sessions locally. Full session tree navigation.

Privacy

What leaves the machine.

Typical agent

Account required. Telemetry on by default. Training opt-outs vary.

Elyra

No account. No telemetry. No paid tier. Your keys, your data.

Embeddable

Beyond the terminal.

Typical agent

Closed app, not designed to be embedded elsewhere.

Elyra

Public TypeScript SDK. Embed the agent runtime in your own tools and pipelines.

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Colophon — Get started

Quiet tools
for serious
software work.

Install once. Bring your own keys. Keep your sessions on your machine. Shape Elyra to fit how you actually build.

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Elyra · Issue 01 · v0.9.11 Built in Norway · MMXXVI

A coding agent that lives where you actually work .

Save up to 30% on every project

Most agents pick a side. Elyra picks yours.

Independent & private

Zero vendor lock-in

Built to be extended

Everything in one binary

An ecosystem that grows with you

Up and running in minutes

Why developers choose Elyra

Quiet tools for serious software work.

A coding agent
that lives where
you actually work .

Save up to 30%
on every project

Most agents pick a side.
Elyra picks yours.

Quiet tools
for serious
software work.