Ante

Ante is a self-contained terminal coding agent written in Rust and designed to work with many AI models rather than one vendor. It ships as a roughly 15 MB binary with no external runtime dependencies. Users can work through an interactive terminal interface, headless commands, a server protocol, or Slack and Discord gateways. A built-in inference engine can run GGUF models entirely offline without an account, API key, or internet connection. Ante also supports more than a dozen hosted providers and can switch between commercial, open-weight, and local models. Multi-agent orchestration lets it spawn and coordinate specialized subagents for larger software tasks. Skills, MCP integrations, persistent memory, resumable sessions, and public benchmark evaluation extend it into a lightweight general-purpose agent harness.