zap-coding-agent/zap-coding-agent

⚡ Zap Coding Agent

An AI coding agent built in Rust — skill-first context injection, a hard security boundary, and a single binary with no runtime.

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Install

macOS / Linux — one-liner

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zap-coding-agent/zap-coding-agent/main/install.sh | bash

The script detects your OS and architecture, downloads the latest release, installs to ~/.local/bin, and patches your shell config if needed. On macOS it also runs codesign --sign - automatically.

| Platform | Binary | |---|---| | macOS Apple Silicon (ARM64) | zap-macos-arm64.tar.gz | | Linux x86_64 | zap-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | | macOS Intel | Build from source |

Windows x86_64

Download zap-windows-x86_64.zip from the latest release, extract, and move zap.exe somewhere on your PATH:

Expand-Archive zap-windows-x86_64.zip .
Move-Item pkg\zap.exe "$env:USERPROFILE\.local\bin\zap.exe"

Build from source

Requires Rust 1.75+.

git clone https://github.com/zap-coding-agent/zap-coding-agent
cd zap-coding-agent
cargo build --release
cp target/release/zap ~/.local/bin/zap

Quickstart

zap                     # interactive TUI
zap --goal "add tests"  # single-shot (non-interactive)
zap --auto --goal "..." # skip all permission prompts (CI)
zap --sdk               # JSON-lines remote control over stdin/stdout

First run will pro