A minimal AI chat TUI built with Go using the Bubble Tea framework.

• Agent Mode: Full access to your file system, shell commands, and codebase.
• Chat Mode: Minimal AI chat TUI built with Bubble Tea for quick queries.
• Clean, responsive terminal interface with Markdown rendering
• Multi-model AI support with 7 different models to choose from
• Interactive model selector modal with provider color coding
• Theme-aware background colors for light/dark terminals
• Conversation history with token usage tracking
• Scrollable chat viewport with styled messages
• Optimized startup time
• Persistent chat history stored locally (SQLite)
• Interactive chat history viewer to resume past conversations

git clone https://github.com/bm611/arcane.git
cd arcane
go mod tidy
go build -o arcane

Set your OpenRouter API key:

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Run the application:

./arcane

• Chat Mode (Default): Run ./arcane for a standard AI chat interface.
• Agent Mode: Press Ctrl+A inside the app to toggle Agent mode, which gives the AI access to read/edit files and execute bash commands in your current directory.

You can also type /clear or /reset to start a new session.

• Bubble Tea - TUI framework
• Lip Gloss - Terminal styling
• Glamour - Markdown rendering
• OpenAI Go SDK - API client (used with OpenRouter)

MIT