I'm excited to introduce Tycode, an AI coding agent. Tycode uses foundational AI models to analyze, debug, write, and test code. Tycode can act as your pair programmer, code reviewer, debugger, or even implement entire features by itself. Tycode can be run as a VS Code extension or in a standalone CLI. Try Tycode today by installing the VS Code plugin or CLI at tycode.dev.
Tycode uses third-party AI inference providers such as OpenRouter, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock and provides tools and guidance so foundational AI models such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini can help you write code. Tycode operates on a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) model - Tycode will only use inference providers that you have configured. You are only billed by these third-party providers. Tycode is free to use (makes no money!) and is open source (MIT licensed).
I started Tycode as a hobby project about 6 months ago, however it has quickly grown to be my preferred AI code writing tool (I may be biased). I've been using Tycode for everything I work on - both personally and professionally - ever since I was able to bootstrap the very first Tycode CLI a few days in. I hope you enjoy using Tycode as much as I have.
In future blogs I'll talk about what Tycode does differently compared to existing solutions like Cline, Roo, Kiro, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, etc. For now, I would love to hear your feedback (especially critical feedback!). Please open issues on the GitHub. I've also created a Discord server if you would like to chat with me: discord.gg/cHeuNSZ9Cd
-Tigy