License-Identifier: HGL
Copyright (C) The Usecode Authors (see AUTHORS)

usecode - Intelligence without overhead
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Use code! When your coding agent can run code, it solves problems better and
burns fewer tokens doing it, so it has more time left for the interesting
stuff.

To run code, an agent needs a place to run it; it can't work in a void.
usecode is that container: machines your agent can spin up, tools it can
run, and an API it can call.

usecode is open source and freely distributed. The code is right here.

The easiest way to use it is usecode.dev. It's already set up and kept
running, so your agents can start working today:

  1. Sign in at https://usecode.dev (free for individuals) and get an API key.
  2. Hand it to your agent. For Claude Code that's one line:

       claude mcp add usecode -e USECODE_MCP_API_KEY=<your key> -- uc-agent-mcp

Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode and friends, see:
https://github.com/evgnomon/usecode/blob/master/docs/coding-agents.md

Upgrades, backups and uptime are on us, not your weekend.


Running it yourself
-------------------

The code is here under the HGL General License (COPYING). On a Debian or
Ubuntu box, put the `uc` and `uc-sync` binaries on your PATH, then:

  uc sync -t usecode -d

It clones this repository, installs what the build needs, then builds and
installs the rest of the tools. Then run `uc help`.

Everything usecode.dev hosts, like monitoring, the audit log and backups,
you can run yourself too; it just takes machines and someone watching them.
If you'd rather we make sure it doesn't break, we're happy to talk:
https://usecode.dev


Contributing
------------

Patches are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md (commits need a Signed-off-by line)
and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.


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