Building an Open-Source Claude Code-Style Agent in Python

LLM coding agents may look complex, but fundamentally they’re just a loop, some tools, and an LLM doing the real work. Agentic coding assistants are now widespread (e.g., Aider, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode). After spending some time with Claude Code, I wanted something I could run with both local and cloud models, understand end-to-end, and modify/extend without wading through a large framewo...