Agent shell is what I always wanted. I have been using many of the different Claude code integrations packages and they are really good. But there is always some friction because I need to run it in a terminal emulator. With agent shell it feels so much more integrated and natural.

I am really excited for these improvements, especially reading the env from a file.

I wish that agent-shell-sidebar had some screenshots though so I could see what it actually does.

agent-shell: A single native Emacs experience to interact with different AI agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol) https://agentclientprotocol.com

So far, agent-shell can interact with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Goose, but can technically work with any ACP-powered agent.

ps. agent-shell needs more sponsors to become sustainable https://github.com/sponsors/xenodium

I've used it a few times now. It's a really smooth experience for quite a new package.

I am waiting for someone to build this for Neovim.

Come on, you unknown hero!

(and thanks to the Zed team and Google for building the spec)

There's another project called ECA: https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca

I think the difference is ECA is a coding agent with a LSP-like protocol for various frontend and editors, which itself supports many models.

Where as agent protocol if I understand lets you use many agents like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, well assuming they support the protocol, using various frontend?

Though I guess other coding agents could also adopt the ECA protocol maybe.