Overview
thndrs is a minimal, LLM powered pair programmer.
It provides a terminal UI for chatting with an LLM and tools to read and modify code based on context/project guidance you provide. Like pi, it’s meant to stay focused on reading and writing code with the essentials. You provide it with the command-line tools you need for your projects.

Features
Section titled “Features”- Chat with a coding agent in the terminal while keeping normal terminal scrollback, search, and text selection.
AGENTS.mdsupportSKILL.mdsupport- Provider expansion across Umans.ai, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen Big Pickle, and ChatGPT Codex models.
- DuckDuckGo or SearXNG powered web search tool
- Agent Client Protocol support lets you use external ACP agents from the TUI,
or run
thndrs acp serveso editors and IDEs can drive thethndrsharness over stdio.- See ACP for agent configuration, editor setup, supported capabilities, permission behavior, and troubleshooting.
- Session history
- Visible context control with pin, drop, recover, and review actions
- Model-specific reasoning controls