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⚡ xdh (xdharness)

Autonomous Terminal Agent Harness & TUI
Cross-platform intelligence for Android Termux, Linux, macOS, and Windows

Release License: MIT Python: >=3.10 Platform

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🌟 Highlights

xdh is a lightweight, high-performance terminal agent harness and Text User Interface (TUI) built for autonomous code generation, system exploration, and agentic workflows. Designed with first-class support for Android Termux as well as standard desktop operating systems.

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🚀 Features

  • 🖥️ 3-Segment Layout: Real-time context header (tokens, RAM, latency, provider/model), scrollable history viewport with collapsible blocks, and dynamic multi-line composer.
  • 🎯 Reusable Skills System: Built-in create_skill & call_skill engine. Define, discover, and run skills via /skill list, /skill run <name>, or autonomous agent calls.
  • 🤖 Multi-Agent Orchestration: Built-in create_agent & spawn_agents. Launch multiple specialized subagents (researcher, coder, tester, reviewer, custom personas) concurrently in parallel threads to solve tasks cooperatively.
  • 🔌 Dynamic Plugin Management: Add, install from git repositories, delete, and manage community or personal plugins via /plugin and autonomous tool injection into TOOLS_SPEC.
  • Interactive User Question Prompting: Agents can invoke ask_question with selectable options to clarify ambiguity during execution, awaiting user input before proceeding.
  • Mid-Run User Guidance Interruption: Send a message or press ESC / Ctrl+C while an agent is executing to immediately pause, incorporate guidance (e.g. "don't do that, do this instead"), and pivot smoothly.
  • 🛡️ Fault-Tolerant Resilience: 5-stage connection retry backoff (increasing by +5s intervals: 5s, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s) with automatic failover between LLM providers.
  • ♾️ Unconstrained Autonomous Execution: Removed artificial tool round limits for complex, hundreds-step autonomous pipelines.
  • 🎨 7 Curated Color Palettes: tokyo_night, dracula, catppuccin, monokai, nord, cyberpunk, and gruvbox.
  • 📱 Mobile & Termux First: Smooth step-scroll animation for touch gestures, compact mini-banners for narrow viewports (<70 cols), and zero heavy C-extension dependencies.
  • 🧠 Context Optimization: Automatic message history compaction when nearing token capacity thresholds.

📦 Installation

From Source (Git)

git clone https://github.com/PwnedBytes0x1/xdh.git
cd xdh
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Direct Execution

python3 -m xdh --version

Termux Quick Setup

pkg update && pkg install python git -y
git clone https://github.com/PwnedBytes0x1/xdh.git
cd xdh
pip install -r requirements.txt
ln -s $(pwd)/xdh.py $PREFIX/bin/xdh
chmod +x $PREFIX/bin/xdh
xdh

⚡ Quick Start

  1. Launch xdh:

    xdh
    
  2. Configure Your Provider & Key: Type /settings inside the interface or edit ~/.xdharness/config.json. You can switch providers dynamically:

    xdh ❯ /provider openrouter
    xdh ❯ /model anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet
    
  3. Interact: Type plain language prompts to instruct the agent to inspect files, execute tests, refactor code, or run background builds.


⌨️ Slash Commands

Command Description Example
/settings Open interactive settings & quick toggles /settings theme dracula
/provider Switch active provider /provider openai
/model Switch model for active provider /model gpt-4o
/theme Switch color theme palette /theme catppuccin
/tools Enable or disable agent function tools /tools on or /tools off
/thinking Toggle live thought/reasoning token streaming /thinking on
/diff Inspect staged file diffs proposed by agent /diff
/apply Apply pending unified diffs to files /apply
/tasks List, inspect, or kill background tasks /tasks list / /tasks logs <id>
/git Execute git status, diff, or commit directly /git status
/scratch Access or update persistent scratchpad memo /scratch set <notes>
/tree Print directory tree of current workspace /tree
/index Build or query workspace keyword index /index build
/copy Copy last response or code block to clipboard /copy
/undo Roll back latest file edit from backups /undo
/clear Clear viewport history (or Ctrl+L) /clear
/help Show command reference table /help
/exit Save session state and exit (or Ctrl+Q) /exit

⌨️ Keybindings

  • Tab: Auto-complete slash command / accept ghost suggestion.
  • Right Arrow: Accept ghost suggestion at line end.
  • Up / Down: Navigate history or smooth-scroll conversation viewport.
  • Ctrl+T: Cycle color themes dynamically.
  • Ctrl+P: Cycle configured AI providers.
  • Ctrl+O: Toggle block collapse (compact vs expanded summary).
  • Ctrl+L: Clear current viewport.
  • Ctrl+C: Interrupt running generation / exit.
  • Ctrl+Q: Save session and quit.

📚 Documentation & Wiki

Detailed guides and specifications are organized in docs/wiki/:


🏗️ Architecture

flowchart TD
    User([User Terminal / Touch]) --> UI[XDHApp TUI Container]
    UI --> Layout[3-Segment Layout: Header, Viewport, Composer]
    UI --> Engine[XDHarness Core Engine]
    Engine --> ProviderRouter[Provider Router & Failover]
    ProviderRouter --> LLM[Streaming API / Ollama / OpenAI / OpenRouter]
    Engine --> ToolManager[Autonomous Tool Execution Engine]
    ToolManager --> Filesystem[(Filesystem & Atomic Backups)]
    ToolManager --> Shell[Subprocess Shell & BG Tasks]
    ToolManager --> Web[DuckDuckGo / Web Fetcher]

🤝 Contributing & Community

Contributions are welcome! Please review our community guidelines before getting started:


📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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