Overview
Research summary
crow-cli is the agent component of the broader Crow ADE project, not the project's preferred editor client or its Zed fork. It runs interactively in a terminal, in one-shot CLI mode, or as an ACP server inside compatible editors. Its streaming ReAct loop can read and edit files, execute shell commands, search and fetch the web, accept multimodal input, cancel work, and compact conversations.
Sessions are stored locally in SQLite by default, with FTS5 search and PostgreSQL also supported; memory tools let agents query previous sessions and delegate against shared history. A bundled MCP server exposes coding, terminal, web, image, and memory tools, while additional MCP servers and skills are configured separately. Tool names are not namespaced, so third-party MCP integrations can collide with built-in names.
Licensing is version-sensitive: release v0.1.24 carries Apache-2.0, whereas the main branch identifies crow-cli as AGPL-3.0-or-later. The Python source is public, but the license attached to the exact release or branch being deployed must be checked.
Repository summary
- Stars
- 56
- Open issues
- 0
- Last push
- 2026-09-13
- Commits, 90 days
- 279
- Repository activity
- Very active · 100/100
- Version
- 0.1.43
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Classification
Pricing & services
No paid services
The reviewed offering has no paid products or services. Third-party hosting or model usage may still cost money.
Commercial offering checked 2026-10-02.
Licence scope
As researched on 9 September 2026: v0.1.24 uses Apache-2.0; main uses AGPL-3.0. These are version-specific licenses, not alternatives.
Implementation
Recorded implementation details and interfaces for crow-cli.
Implementation details
Python
- Languages
- Python
- Repository type
- source
- ACP identifier
crow-cli
Recorded interfaces and capabilities
Licence scope
As researched on 9 September 2026: v0.1.24 uses Apache-2.0; main uses AGPL-3.0. These are version-specific licenses, not alternatives.
Repository
Repository snapshots, release information and recorded maintenance signals.
Repository snapshot
- Stars
- 56
- Open issues
- 0
- Last push
- 2026-09-13
- Commits, 90 days
- 279
- Repository activity
- Very active · 100/100
- 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
- 0.1.43
- Version source
- github-release
- Version scope
- crow-cli/crow-cli
- Version recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Latest release tag
- v0.1.43
- Release published
- 2026-09-09
- Default branch
- main
- Head commit
edc8c5bb4fe5557328f6701f64e255c47ecf8da3
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
- crow-cli/crow-cli
Documentation
Recorded references and research provenance for this entry.
Recorded sources 2
- https://crow-ai.dev/ Project page · Commercial offering evidence
- https://github.com/crow-cli/crow-cli Linked repository · Repository metric snapshot
Research metadata
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
An individual research date has not been recorded for this entry.