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Is there a terminal AI assistant that doesn't have heaps of depenedancies and preferably no node? Claude and codex both require node. I'm a fan of the lightweight octofriend. But also node. I do not like installing node on systems that otherwise would not require it.

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You can install codex without npm if you build it yourself, they have migrated to rust in June and npm is just a convenient install wrapper it seems.

Just `git clone git@github.com:openai/codex.git`, `cd codex-rs`, `cargo build --release` (If you have many cores and not much RAM, use `-j n`, where n is 1 to 4 to decrease RAM requirements)

llama.cpp?

Does it have a terminal assistant that I have not heard of? Otherwise, the parent asks about an assistant that is able to run various tools and stuff, not just talk.

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