coder/agentapi

HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, Gemini, Amp, and Codex

What's novel

HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, Gemini, Amp, and Codex

Code Analysis

12 files read · 4 rounds

Provides an HTTP API and web chat interface to control CLI coding agents (Claude, Goose, Aider, Codex, etc.) by spawning them in a pseudo-terminal, polling the screen at 40fps, using screen diffing to detect responses, and parsing TUI output to extract clean conversation messages.

Strengths

Genuinely novel PTY-based approach to agent control with sophisticated message parsing that handles 11 different agent TUI layouts, excellent test coverage with deterministic mock-clock testing, and clean separation of concerns across termexec, screentracker, msgfmt, and httpapi packages.

Weaknesses

Relies on a fragile HACK that accesses xpty internal implementation, uses heuristic-based fuzzy matching with arbitrary constants for message parsing that may break when agent UIs change, and lacks integration tests with real agents.

Score Breakdown

Innovation

6 (25%)

Craft

75 (35%)

Traction

80 (15%)

Scope

96 (25%)

Signal breakdown

Innovation

Not Fork+1

Code Novelty+2

Concept Novelty+2

Craft

Ci+5

Tests-5

Polish+1

Releases+5

Has License+5

Code Quality+27

Readme Quality+15

Recent Activity+7

Structure Quality+5

Commit Consistency+5

Has Dependency Mgmt+5

Traction

Forks+20

Stars+30

Hn Points+15

Watchers+10

Early Traction+0

Devto Reactions+0

Community Contribs+5

Scope

Commits+8

Languages+8

Subsystems+15

Bloat Penalty+0

Completeness+7

Contributors+8

Authored Files+15

Readme Code Match+3

Architecture Depth+7

Implementation Depth+8

Evidence

Commits

271

Contributors

Files

302

Active weeks

TestsCI/CDREADMELicenseContributing

Repository

Language

Stars

1275

Forks

108

License

MIT