novacode-tui 0.1.2

The most powerful TUI AI Coding Agent — surpasses Claude Code & OpenCode with NVIDIA NIM, multi-key rotation, KIMI K2.6 & DeepSeek V4 Pro support

NovaCode ⚡

The most powerful TUI AI Coding Agent — surpasses Claude Code and OpenCode.

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  ║          NovaCode — AI Coding Agent      ║
  ║    More powerful than Claude Code ✨      ║
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✨ What makes NovaCode special?

Feature	NovaCode	Claude Code	OpenCode
Multi-key rotation	✅ Auto-failover	❌	❌
NVIDIA NIM	✅ Native	❌	❌
KIMI K2.6 via NIM	✅ No separate key	❌	❌
DeepSeek V4 Pro streaming	✅ True SSE streaming	❌	❌
Agentic tool loop	✅ Parallel execution	✅ Sequential	✅ Sequential
Web search	✅ Built-in	❌	❌
Context windowing	✅ Smart	✅	✅
Plan/Build modes	✅	✅	✅
File tree sidebar	✅ Coming	❌	❌
Token tracking	✅ Real-time	✅	❌

🚀 Quick Start

Install via pip (recommended)

pip install novacode-tui

Install via npm

npm install -g novacode-tui
# npm wrapper will detect Python and prompt to install the Python package

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/novacode-ai/novacode.git
cd novacode
pip install -e .
# Or via npm:
npm link ./npm

🔑 Configuration

1. Add NVIDIA NIM API Keys

Get free NIM keys from build.nvidia.com:

novacode keys add
# Paste your NVIDIA NIM API key

# Add multiple keys for auto-rotation:
novacode keys add
novacode keys add

2. Add NIM API keys (same keys used for all models, including KIMI K2.6)

# Add as many keys as you want — NovaCode auto-rotates
novacode keys add
# Paste your NVIDIA NIM API key

3. List configured keys

novacode keys list

🎮 Usage

# Launch the TUI (interactive chat)
novacode

# Use a specific model
novacode --model moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
novacode --model deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro

# Send a one-off message (non-TUI)
novacode chat "refactor this code to use async/await"

# List available models
novacode models

# Edit configuration
novacode config

TUI Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
Ctrl+C	Quit
Ctrl+L	Clear chat
Ctrl+N	New session
Ctrl+S	Focus input
Ctrl+A	Toggle auto-approve
Esc	Focus input

🤖 Supported Models

Model ID	Description
nvidia/llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b	NVIDIA's best — speed + quality
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6	KIMI K2.6 thinking model (served via NVIDIA NIM)
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro	DeepSeek V4 Pro with true reasoning streaming
nvidia/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	Fast, lightweight

Model-specific behavior

• KIMI K2.6: Served via NVIDIA NIM (uses the same NIM keys). Thinking mode requires temperature=1.0, non-thinking requires 0.6. No tool_choice: "required".
• DeepSeek V4 Pro: Uses reasoning_content field for CoT streaming (no chunked dump). Can disable thinking via config.

🛠 Agentic Capabilities

NovaCode includes a powerful suite of tools:

Tool	Description	Auto-confirm
read	Read file contents with line offsets	✅
write	Write content to files	❌
edit	Targeted find-and-replace edits	❌
search	Regex codebase search	✅
bash	Execute shell commands	❌
list_dir	List directory contents	✅
glob	Find files by glob pattern	✅
file_info	Get file metadata	✅
web_search	Search the web	✅

🔄 Multi-Key Rotation

NovaCode's key rotation system automatically:

• Round-robins through available NIM keys
• Detects 429 rate limits and moves to the next key
• Cooldowns rate-limited keys for configurable intervals
• Resets expired cooldowns automatically
• Tracks usage per key (uses least-used strategy when configured)

# Configure strategy
novacode config  # Edit rotation_strategy: "round-robin" or "least-used"

🧠 Architecture

novacode/
├── __main__.py       # CLI entry point (click)
├── config.py         # JSON config, multi-key, multi-model
├── client/
│   ├── nim.py        # NVIDIA NIM + OpenAI-compatible client
│   └── rotation.py   # Multi-key rotation engine
├── agent/
│   ├── engine.py     # Tool execution loop
│   ├── tools.py      # Tool definitions (9 built-in tools)
│   └── context.py    # Token-aware context windowing
├── ui/
│   └── app.py        # Textual TUI application
├── models/
│   └── ...           # Model definitions & configs
└── utils/
    └── helpers.py    # Utility functions

📦 Development

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

# Run tests
pytest

# Type check
mypy src/novacode

# Lint
ruff check src/novacode

🌟 Roadmap

• LSP integration for context-aware code understanding
• Multi-session management
• Custom tool creation DSL
• Project-level memory & patterns
• VSCode / JetBrains extension
• Local model support (Ollama, llama.cpp)
• Collaborative sessions

📄 License

MIT License — see LICENSE

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NovaCode — Because your code deserves the best agent.