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Elpis is a terminal environment for coding agents. The agent runs the model loop; Elpis owns everything around it — what goes into each request, what stays on disk, and what carries across sessions.

Install (Linux x86_64):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MasihMoafi/Elpis/main/scripts/install-elpis.sh | bash && ~/.local/bin/elpis

Install (macOS, Apple Silicon):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MasihMoafi/Elpis/main/scripts/install-elpis.sh | bash && ~/.local/bin/elpis

The macOS build is CI-proven — it's tested headlessly in the release pipeline on real Apple Silicon runners — but not yet verified on a developer's own machine. Report anything unexpected.

Already running Elpis? Use elpis --update.

What's new since 0.1.0

  • macOS (Apple Silicon) — first release with a native arm64 build. Intel Macs are not supported; the installer will tell you to use Rosetta if you try.
  • RAG removed — the bundled retrieval engine (a Python/PyTorch sidecar) and the /rag command are gone. Retrieval is now a capability you register like any other tool, via MCP; ask in plain language and the agent calls it and cites sources.
  • Durable memory on by default — was off by default in 0.1.0.
  • Dev-rule files now load on any machine — previously the Context Ledger only found a project's dev-rule files (skills/dev/*.md) if they happened to sit in a folder next to the project. Fixed: it now also checks a fixed location under Elpis's home directory, so the rules travel with the machine, not the project's disk layout.
  • Context Ledger: durable memory row is toggleable — the keyboard toggle silently excluded the memory row from selection; fixed.
  • Startup cost measured and reduced; debug builds now flag themselves instead of pretending to be a release build.

What it does

  • Context pruning on three levels — optional RTK shell-output filtering before the agent sees a command's output, Codex's inherited safety cap for exceptionally large output, then Ace's meaning-aware post-turn pass. Useful results become a compact conclusion plus an evidence pointer; dead ends leave working context. In a controlled same-task comparison, Elpis ended with 93% free context against Codex's 73%.
  • Context Ledger — /context lists exactly which files are in the working set and why, with ctrl+clickable paths. Add files, exclude them, or remove them outright.
  • Durable evidence — full conversations, terminal events, and artifacts stay exact on disk after they leave working context, and can be retrieved later.
  • Portable session continuity — older history compacts into goal and checkpoint state, so a session resumes without replaying the transcript.
  • Its own state — configuration, sessions, history, logs, and hooks live under Elpis's own directory, so Elpis and Codex no longer silently alter each other.
  • Self-update — elpis --update verifies the release checksum and replaces the binary atomically, leaving the existing one untouched on any failure.
  • Bounded local memory — selective and size-capped, backed by provenance, and now on by default.
  • Provider choice — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenRouter, chosen explicitly rather than routed silently.
  • No telemetry by default — no analytics are uploaded, and every OpenTelemetry exporter is off unless you configure one.

Not in this release: Windows, /auto routing, multi-agent control, voice input, LSP integration.

Verify the download with the matching .sha256 asset. Full docs in the readme.

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