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wiseprobeon A Customizable Coding Agent: custom tools, Python API, and any local/cloud LLM

Human-in-the-loop coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, OpenCode, Aider) are currently mutually exclusive with programmatic agent frameworks (e.g., smolagents, PydanticAI).

A key goal of this project is to marry both: use the same AI agent interactively in your terminal (`patchpal`) or in Python scripts (`agent.run("task")`), plus an autopilot mode for fully autonomous runs.

Supports both local and cloud tool-calling LLMs.

Code: https://github.com/wiseprobe/patchpal

Documentation: https://ai.wiseprobe.io/patchpal/

wiseprobeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Working on https://github.com/wiseprobe/patchpal , an open-source agentic coding assistant in Python.

While it's true that the agentic coding assistant space is crowded (Claude Code, Aider, Opencode, Codex, etc.), we needed something supporting both local and cloud models that we could easily modify/extend for custom workflows.

Being able to access the agent through both a terminal and a Python API/REPL has come in handy.

Recent releases includes custom tools, agent skills, and built-in support for Ralph Wiggum loops.