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Ikie
A token-efficient, self-healing terminal AI coding assistant
Ikie is a powerful agentic coding CLI for complex work. It reads your repo, plans, edits with precision, runs your tests, and ships — all from the shell. 28 built-in tools, plan & agent modes, skills and MCP support.
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Ikie because I was frustrated with how expensive AI coding assistants had become.
Every long refactor session with the existing tools felt like watching money burn. They re-uploaded the entire context on every turn, charged premium subscriptions, and still left me manually running tests and fixing the errors they introduced. I wanted an AI pair programmer that was fast, verifiable, and cheap enough to use all day.
So I made Ikie.
Ikie is a terminal-based coding assistant that focuses on three things:
Cost efficiency through prompt caching. Real session: 40 multi-turn queries on a 90K+ token context cost $1.06 total. That makes AI coding accessible to hobbyists, freelancers, and bootstrapped teams.
Autonomous self-healing. After every mutating edit, Ikie runs your project's test command from .ikie.json. If something breaks, it reads the failure, reflects, and retries up to three times.
Smart local context retrieval. A zero-dependency TF-IDF retriever finds the files you actually need, with code-aware tokenization and lazy index rebuilds.
It is open-source friendly, has a free Hobby plan, and supports custom MCP servers and skills.
I would love your feedback. Try it, break it, and tell me what you think.
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About Ikie on Product Hunt
“A token-efficient, self-healing terminal AI coding assistant”
Ikie was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #108 on the daily leaderboard. Ikie is a powerful agentic coding CLI for complex work. It reads your repo, plans, edits with precision, runs your tests, and ships — all from the shell. 28 built-in tools, plan & agent modes, skills and MCP support.
Ikie was featured in Developer Tools (515.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 204.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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