cake — a tiny terminal chat for LLMs

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A tiny terminal chat for LLMs.
One small binary. No runtime. Plugins in C.

INSTALL

curl -fsSL https://cake-site-70a7ce2e.pages.dev/install.sh | sh

macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux x86_64. Installs cake to ~/.local/bin.

Latest build: … · macOS arm64 · Linux x86_64

WHY

SmallThe whole app is a 1.4 MB binary (425 KB compressed). The install is one file you can read the size of.
Light on memoryStarts at about 5 MB resident and grows only with the history you keep: ~11 MB after 25 turns of tool calls, code blocks and resizes.
SimpleNo Node, no Python, no package manager, no daemon. A single native executable and a plain-text harness.conf.
Fast pluginsA plugin is one .c file, compiled in-process by an embedded compiler. No build step, no toolchain to install, edit and /reload.
Safe pluginsA plugin that faults or hangs is unloaded; the chat keeps running.
ResumableSessions autosave; /resume picks up where you left off.
Pleasant to readStreaming output with syntax-highlighted code fences, in your terminal.