choreoai-cli 0.0.4

A Claude-Code-style coding agent harness built on choreoai.

choreoai-cli

A Claude-Code-style coding agent harness built on choreoai.

choreoai-cli is an interactive terminal REPL that runs a coding agent in your current directory using choreoai's LLMAgent, tools, budget, and trace — so the harness itself is budget-bounded and observable.

Status: pre-alpha. This is a minimal but working slice (v0), not a full Claude Code clone.

Features (v0)

• Interactive REPL (choreoai-cli) with /help, /reset, /exit
• Polished terminal UI: rich panels/markdown/syntax + prompt_toolkit history/multiline input
• Live-streamed tool calls via choreoai event subscribers (spinner while the model thinks)
• Coding tools: read_file, write_file, list_dir, run_shell (path jail under --cwd)
• Shell commands require confirmation unless --auto is set
• Built on choreoai: LLMAgent tool loop, Budget + Trace middleware, typed event stream
• Default model: claude-sonnet-5 (via choreoai / Anthropic)

Install

Requires Python 3.10+.

pip install choreoai-cli

This installs the PyPI package choreoai-cli and its dependency choreoai (also from PyPI).

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/choreo-ai/choreoai-cli
cd choreoai-cli
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Local choreoai development

PyPI requires a normal version pin (choreoai>=0.0.1), not a git URL. For local / offline development against a checkout of the framework:

# Install framework from local checkout first (editable)
pip install -e C:\karthik\repos\choreo   # or: pip install -e /path/to/choreo

# Then install the CLI (and optional dev extras)
pip install -e ".[dev]"

If choreoai is already installed editable, pip install -e ".[dev]" will satisfy choreoai>=0.0.1 without hitting PyPI for that package.

Usage

# Live agent (requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
choreoai-cli

# Skip shell confirmation prompts (use carefully)
choreoai-cli --auto

# Single non-interactive command
choreoai-cli -c "List the files in this directory"

# Custom working directory
choreoai-cli --cwd /path/to/project

REPL commands

Command	Action
/help	Show help
/reset	Clear session budget, shell approvals, and trace
/exit	Quit

Anything else is sent to the coding agent as an instruction.

Input uses prompt_toolkit when the terminal is interactive (history, Esc+Enter for multiline submit). Pipes and tests fall back to plain input.

Environment

Variable	Required	Notes
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	For live	Default model is claude-sonnet-5

Offline tests inject a fake BaseChatModel and do not need an API key.

Tests

# Prefer editable local choreoai if you have a checkout
pip install -e /path/to/choreo
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Tests are offline: no network and no ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

How it works

1. Builds a choreoai LLMAgent with a coding-assistant system prompt and file/shell tools.
2. Wraps each turn in choreoai BudgetMiddleware + TraceMiddleware (onion stack).
3. Runs the agent tool loop; prints tool calls, the final answer (rich), budget usage, and a short trace summary.

License

MIT © 2026 Karthik Reddy