Alisio

Any OpenAI-compatible API

Chat Completions or Responses, configurable base URL, model, key variable and token parameter. No bundled model or credentials.

Terminal UI and headless mode

A full TUI with streaming Markdown, tool blocks, context bar and approvals, plus a headless run mode with versioned JSONL events.

Web UI with alisio serve

A local, token-protected browser interface for several workspaces and sessions at once, with streaming, approvals, the / command palette and the same agent core as the terminal.

Explicit permissions

Reads are available by default. Writes, processes, MCP and agent messaging require flags or an interactive approval.

Context compaction

Structured checkpoints replace old history without ever separating a tool call from its result.

Persistent memory

A built-in persistent memory plugin backed by SQLite and FTS5 that survives sessions and projects.

Typed plugin SDK

Tools, commands, events, context, compaction and session hooks, model completions and a SQLite storage port.

Agents

Create agents with the active model, from templates or by hand, store them as portable Markdown in .agents/agents and switch with /agents or /agent:<id> in the web UI and the TUI.

Plan mode and plan viewer

A read-only plan agent proposes a plan you approve before anything changes, with optional Mermaid diagrams shown in a plan viewer in the web UI.

Dashboards and charts

Python analysis publishes dashboards, reports and spreadsheets as artifacts; interactive charts are built with an embedded Chart.js, offline.

Subagents

Delegate to specialized agents in child sessions, with a live agent tree, parallel git worktrees and cascade cancellation.

MCP and Herdr

An MCP client (stdio and Streamable HTTP) with lazy, consent-gated connections, plus a Herdr report integration.

What is Alisio?

Alisio is a coding-agent harness with its own TypeScript core. It connects to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, drives its own tool loop and runs in your terminal, either as an interactive TUI or headless for scripts and CI.

Work across sessions in the Web UI

Run alisio serve for a local browser workspace with streaming conversations, approvals and file context.

Alisio Harness Web UI showing workspace navigation, an active coding conversation and the file explorer — The same agent core, available in a focused multi-workspace browser interface.

See the CLI in action

A short look at Alisio running in the terminal, from a prompt to tool-assisted work.

It includes:

An interactive TUI and a headless CLI (alisio run, JSONL events, session resume).

Local tools for reading, searching, editing, running processes and Git, gated by explicit permissions.

Context compaction and a built-in persistent memory plugin.

Agents: model-assisted creation, templates, project/global .agents/agents files and switching from the web UI and the TUI.

Plan mode and plan review: a read-only plan agent, optional diagrams and a plan viewer in the web UI.

Python analysis with dashboards and charts published as artifacts.

Subagents: delegation to specialized agents in child sessions, with a live agent tree.

Hierarchical AGENTS.md instructions and Agent Skills.

An MCP client (stdio and Streamable HTTP) and a Herdr integration.

A typed plugin SDK (@alisio/sdk) for tools, commands, hooks and storage.

Alisio 0.4.4 is a stable release, still pre-1.0: minor versions may include breaking changes (see Stability and versioning). Read Known limitations before relying on it, and remember that it is not a sandbox: tools and plugins run with your user privileges.

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