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anus-dev/ANUS

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ANUS (Autonomous Networked Utility System) is a terminal-based AI coding agent, installed as an npm global package and configured with an OpenRouter API key, that ingests the context of the current project directory and assists with development tasks from the command line. It is natively built around `xai/grok-code-fast-1` as its model, supports the Model Context Protocol for adding custom tools, includes built-in file-system and sandboxed shell-command operations, and keeps project-specific goals and instructions in a local `ANUS.md` file, similar in shape to other terminal coding-agent tools such as Claude Code or Codex. What differentiates the project is its explicit framing as an AI-driven-development experiment: the README states its initial codebase was generated by another AI agent rather than written by a human, and the project enforces a contribution rule requiring that at least 80 percent of any submitted code be AI-generated. Its stated roadmap has three phases: a foundational command-line agent (the current state), a meta-cognition phase in which ANUS analyzes its own codebase to propose improvements drawn from the wider AI ecosystem, and an autonomous-evolution phase in which it becomes a core maintainer of its own repository, proposing, implementing and shipping features with close to zero human oversight. The project runs its community discussion on Telegram and encourages forks to adopt a shared naming convention. Functionally, in its current phase, it is a Grok-backed terminal coding assistant comparable to other CLI coding agents; its long-term ambition to self-maintain and self-improve is a stated goal rather than a feature delivered today.

https://github.com/anus-dev/ANUS

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