Overview
Research summary
CodeWhale reads projects, edits files, executes commands and checks its work from an interactive terminal or other clients connected to the same runtime. Users can select hosted or local providers, explore in a non-mutating plan mode, then move to work mode with explicit permission policies. Larger tasks can be divided among agents with different roles and model choices, making the project relevant both as a lightweight Rust runtime and as a multi-agent execution reference.
The shared-runtime approach is relevant when a project needs several user interfaces without duplicating agent state or execution semantics. Its permission model also makes planning and mutation explicit rather than treating every model request as equally trusted. For comparative research, CodeWhale provides a compact example of how Rust ownership, asynchronous execution and client/runtime separation can be used to keep an interactive coding agent relatively lightweight while still supporting delegation.
Repository summary
- Stars
- 40,970
- Open issues
- 92
- Last push
- 2026-09-14
- Commits, 90 days
- 6,708
- Repository activity
- Very active · 99/100
- Version
- 0.9.13
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Classification
Pricing & services
Paid services unknown
Whether the provider offers paid products or services has not been established.
Licence scope
Implementation
Recorded implementation details and interfaces for CodeWhale.
Implementation details
Rust
- Languages
- Rust
- Repository type
- source
Recorded interfaces and capabilities
Licence scope
Repository
Repository snapshots, release information and recorded maintenance signals.
Repository snapshot
- Stars
- 40,970
- Open issues
- 92
- Last push
- 2026-09-14
- Commits, 90 days
- 6,708
- Repository activity
- Very active · 99/100
- Archived
- No
Repository activity is a snapshot, not a quality or popularity ranking. It combines recent-push freshness (50%), 90-day commits (30%) and issue pressure (20%).
Release information
- Current version
- 0.9.13
- Version source
- github-release
- Version scope
- Hmbown/Codewhale
- Version recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Latest release tag
- v0.9.13
- Release published
- 2026-09-14
- Default branch
- main
- Head commit
e9b761c08accec7f2ca2a7202a5d710b72faf325
Maintenance and provenance
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Stars source
- GitHub snapshot
- Last push source
- GitHub snapshot
- Repository metrics stale
- No
- Snapshot repository
- Hmbown/Codewhale
Documentation
Recorded references and research provenance for this entry.
Recorded sources 6
- https://codewhale.net/ Project page · Research reference
- https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale Linked repository · Research reference
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/HEAD/README.md Research reference
- https://discord.com/api/v10/invites/37gfS3ksug?with_counts=false&with_expiration=true Research reference
- https://github.com/Hmbown/Codewhale Research reference · Repository metric snapshot
- https://api.github.com/repos/Hmbown/Codewhale Research reference
Research metadata
- Research date
- 2026-09-14
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
Community & social 2 channels
Communities
- Discorddiscord.gg/37gfS3ksugOfficial
Link details for Discord
- Access
- Public
- Last checked
- GitHub Discussionsgithub.com/Hmbown/Codewhale/discussionsOfficialDiscussion
Link details for GitHub Discussions
- Access
- Public
- Last checked