nexcoder 0.1.6

The coding agent that remembers — AI coding assistant with persistent memory and error learning.

Nex AI — The Coding Agent That Remembers

A CLI-based AI coding agent that wraps the Anthropic Claude API with persistent project memory, error pattern learning, and codebase indexing.

Features

• Persistent Memory — Remembers your project context, conventions, and architecture across sessions
• Error Learning — Logs past mistakes and queries them before generating code to avoid repeating errors
• Codebase Indexing — Uses tree-sitter to parse your codebase and select relevant context for each task
• Interactive Chat — Multi-turn conversation mode with full tool access and persistent history
• Smart Context Selection — Two-phase token budgeting with file-level TF-IDF ranking and signature-only fallback
• Safety Layer — Detects destructive operations (rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force push) and requires confirmation
• Git Integration — Creates isolated branches per task, shows diffs, and offers to commit

Installation

pip install nexcoder

Quick Start

# Initialize Nex in your project
nex init

# Set up your API key
nex auth

# Build the codebase index
nex index

# Run a one-shot task
nex "add a health check endpoint"

# Or start an interactive session
nex chat

# Check project status
nex status

Commands

Command	Description
nex "task"	Run a coding task
nex init	Initialize .nex/ directory
nex index	Build codebase index (.nex/index.json)
nex chat	Start interactive chat session
nex status	Show project stats
nex auth	Configure API key
nex memory show	View project memory
nex memory edit	Edit project memory
nex rollback	Undo last agent change
nex --dry-run "task"	Preview without executing

How It Works

1. Context Assembly — Loads project memory, error patterns, and relevant code into the prompt. Files are ranked by TF-IDF relevance, with top files included in full and remaining files as signature summaries.
2. Agent Loop — Iterates: call Claude API → execute tools → feed results back, up to 25 iterations.
3. Interactive Chat — nex chat maintains a persistent conversation with the agent, accumulating context across turns. Useful for exploratory work, debugging, or multi-step tasks.
4. Codebase Index — nex index parses your source files with tree-sitter, extracting function/class signatures for fast relevance search.
5. Git Commit — Shows diff and offers to commit on an isolated branch.

Tools

The agent has access to 5 tools:

Tool	Description
read_file	Read file contents with line numbers
write_file	Write content, creating directories if needed
run_command	Execute shell commands (safety-checked)
search_files	Regex search across the codebase
list_directory	Recursive directory listing

Development

# Clone and install in editable mode
git clone https://github.com/nex-ai/nex-ai.git
cd nex-ai
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Lint and format
ruff check src/ tests/
ruff format src/ tests/

# Type check
mypy src/nex/

Architecture

src/nex/
├── cli.py          # Typer CLI entry point
├── agent.py        # Core agent loop + ChatSession
├── api_client.py   # Anthropic API wrapper
├── planner.py      # Task decomposition (Haiku)
├── reviewer.py     # Independent code review
├── context.py      # Context assembly + token budgeting
├── safety.py       # Destructive operation detection
├── config.py       # Configuration management
├── memory/         # Persistent memory system
│   ├── project.py  # .nex/memory.md
│   ├── errors.py   # .nex/errors.db (SQLite)
│   └── decisions.py # .nex/decisions.md
├── indexer/        # Codebase indexing
│   ├── scanner.py  # File discovery
│   ├── parser.py   # tree-sitter AST parsing
│   └── index.py    # Index builder + TF-IDF search
└── tools/          # Agent tools (5 total)
    ├── file_ops.py # read_file, write_file
    ├── shell.py    # run_command
    ├── search.py   # search_files
    └── git_ops.py  # Git operations

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Default
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Anthropic API key (required)	—
NEX_MODEL	Override default model	claude-sonnet-4-20250514
NEX_MAX_ITERATIONS	Max tool calls per task	25
NEX_DRY_RUN	Default dry-run mode	false
NEX_LOG_LEVEL	Logging verbosity	INFO

License

MIT