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Launch Imminent — Warden v0.1.0

A lean, multi-provider, terminal-native LLM coding agent. Single binary. MIT. Pre-Alpha ships soon.

Something is coming.

A terminal-native LLM coding agent that doesn’t lock you to one provider. Anthropic Claude, OpenAI (Platform API + Responses subscription tier), and Google Gemini — all fully wired today. Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry scaffolded for tomorrow, each raising explicit NotImplementedError so you can’t accidentally use them.

Twenty-one builtin tools. A full MCP client and server mode. Six permission modes with an eight-source precedence chain. Twenty-two hook event types. A 13-tier import DAG enforced by import-linter on every PR.

42,800 lines of Python 3.14. MIT licensed. Single binary. Telemetry is off by default — opt-in for full diagnostic, env-killable via WARDEN_TELEMETRY=off, schema-allowlisted server-side. The license activation flow uses a small first-party endpoint at api.wardenclient.com; the full data contract is documented in docs/telemetry.md in the repository.

We don’t promise vaporware. The Pre-Alpha tag is honest — three providers fully wired, three scaffolded with explicit error placeholders, the known gaps documented on the homepage of the README itself. What ships, ships.

Stay tuned.