# Crush

> Charm's terminal coding agent: multi-model, session-based, LSP-enhanced and extensible with MCP.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Coding Agents](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/coding-agents)
- **Type:** Agent
- **Pricing:** Free
- **GitHub stars:** 28,249
- **Language:** Go
- **License:** FSL-1.1-MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 23, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
- **Source code:** https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/crush
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Developers who live in the terminal and want a polished, model-agnostic coding agent.

## Avoid if
You need an OSI-approved open-source licence today; FSL restricts competing uses until each release converts to MIT.

## About Crush
Crush is a coding agent for the terminal from Charm, built on the Charm terminal ecosystem. It works with many LLMs, including your own through OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs, lets you switch models mid-session while keeping context, keeps multiple sessions per project, uses language servers for extra context and adds capabilities through MCP servers. It runs on macOS, Linux, Windows, Android and the BSDs. It is source-available under the Functional Source License, which converts to MIT after two years.

## Install

```
brew install charmbracelet/tap/crush
```

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