lovelaice 2.5.0

A local-first coding agent for the terminal, built on a native tool-calling ReAct engine.

Lovelaice

A sovereign, local-first coding agent for the terminal. Single ReAct loop over a small built-in tool set, yolo by default. Two modes:

• Interactive — full-screen Textual TUI: lovelaice
• One-shot — streams to stdout and exits: lovelaice <prompt>

Install

pipx install lovelaice

Configure

lovelaice --init writes a .lovelaice.py in the current directory. This file grounds the workspace: when you run lovelaice from any subdirectory, it walks up to the nearest .lovelaice.py and chdirs to its directory before running. Exactly one config grounds the workspace — there is no stacking.

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY in your environment before running.

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-...
lovelaice

Commands and tools

The .lovelaice.py registers tools and commands as decorators on a Config object. Built-in tools: bash, read, write, edit, list, glob, grep, fetch. Add your own with @config.tool. See know-how/writing-a-tool.md and know-how/writing-a-command.md.

Thinking mode

Add thinking="high" (or "low"/"medium", or an integer token budget) on a model entry to enable OpenRouter's reasoning passthrough. Reasoning chunks render in a separate dim-italic panel above the agent's reply. Non-OpenRouter base URLs silently ignore the knob — v1 does not translate reasoning protocols across providers.

MCP

Pass mcp=[...] to Config(...) to spawn stdio MCP servers and register their tools. Tool names are prefixed mcp:<server>:<tool>.

config = Config(
    models=MODELS,
    prompt=PROMPT,
    mcp=[
        {"name": "filesystem", "command": "npx",
         "args": ["@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "."]},
    ],
)

License

MIT.