Lee Tools

Lee Editor and Hester AI Daemon - Terminal-native IDE with AI sidecar.

Components

Lee Editor (port 9001)

Terminal-native IDE built with Textual TUI framework.

• Code editor with syntax highlighting
• Terminal tabs
• DevOps dashboard for service management
• Git integration
• Diff view
• Hester AI integration

Hester Daemon (port 9000)

AI-powered code exploration assistant using Gemini 3 Pro with a ReAct loop.

• File reading and searching
• Stateful sessions with Redis
• ReAct pattern for reasoning

Installation

# Create/activate virtual environment
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install in editable mode
pip install -e .

Usage

# Start Hester daemon
hester daemon start

# Start Lee editor
lee

# Or with a workspace
lee --workspace ./myproject

Configuration

Create ~/.config/lee/config.yaml or ./lee.yaml. See lee/config.yaml for an example.