Fred

Fred is an agentic coding CLI built around a small set of well-understood primitives — view, edit, grep, glob, bash, todo — with permission gating per call. It runs on DeepSeek, which makes it cheap enough to leave running while you work. It's an experiment in asking how affordable a coding agent can be while still feeling good to use.

The CLI (fred) ships as a single Python package — uv tool install fredcode. You can run it directly against DeepSeek with your own key and skip this site entirely. The hosted side exists to add billing, usage analytics, and a streaming proxy for people who'd rather pay per-token through a single account.

Built by Nolan Whitley. If something on the site doesn't add up, email hello@fredcode.net.