Ante: a self-contained Rust coding-agent harness
Ante packages a terminal coding agent, embedded grep/git tooling, and a managed local llama.cpp engine into roughly a 15 MB Rust binary. It supports interactive, headless, server, and gateway modes; profiles replace the tool set and system prompt; and the same runtime can use hosted providers or run fully offline with a GGUF model.
The project publishes an SDK/protocol surface and a reproducible Terminal-Bench pipeline, with claimed lower memory, CPU, and disk use than larger agents. The important caveat is that the core harness is still distributed as a prebuilt binary during this alpha preview, not as source, and telemetry is opt-out rather than opt-in. That makes its deployment story compelling while leaving trust and auditability as open questions.