dao-code
Open-source TypeScript terminal coding agent for DeepSeek-V4 — builds on DeepSeek's strong price-performance and ultra-cheap cache pricing, engineering byte-stable prefixes and cache-reusing forks so
Terminal coding against DeepSeek V4, where cache pricing keeps running costs down.
You do not use DeepSeek, or you need an English-first interface.
About dao-code
Dao Code (command dao) is a terminal-native AI coding assistant: it reads code, writes code, runs commands, and fixes bugs right in your terminal — streaming its reasoning and tool calls while executing safely behind an approval gate, until the task is done. It targets DeepSeek V4 (1M context), is Chinese-first, and is inspired by Claude Code — but takes a different road: rather than buying experience with an expensive model, it builds on DeepSeek's strong price-performance and ultra-cheap ca…
Prices as of 2026-06 official rates: DeepSeek V4 Pro hit/miss/output = $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87 per 1M; Claude Opus 4.8 = $5 / $25 (hits at 0.1× cache-read), Sonnet 4.6 = $3 / $15. Multiples are USD-on-USD, exchange-rate-independent; ¥ converted at ¥7.1/$. Cross-check: re-pricing L1 at current rates gives ¥0.140 ≈ the ¥0.136 the in-log /cost reported. - Verify the cache mechanism live — npm run accept:cache runs a multi-turn conversation against the live API so you can watch the hit rate cl…
dao-code is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 1.1k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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