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This tool acts as a coding assistant that lives directly in your command-line window, reading your files, writing new code, running commands, and fixing bugs while you watch it work in real time. It runs on DeepSeek's AI models, which cost far less than many alternatives, and it remembers your project's conventions and your preferences from one session to the next. It works in Terminal on Mac, Linux, or Windows, uses settings compatible with Claude Code, and needs a DeepSeek account and API key to run.

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Use This MCP client To

Have an AI find and fix bugs in my code Get help writing new code for a project Run commands and tasks right from my command line Keep an AI's memory of my project across sessions Recover a coding session automatically after a crash Save money by using a lower-cost AI model for coding help

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CI License: MIT Node PRs welcome

A terminal coding agent built around cost, experience, and availability — squeezing the most capability and the lowest cost out of the high-value DeepSeek V4.

Dao Code demo

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 cache pricing, engineering byte-stable prefixes and cache-reusing forks so cross-session memory and a continuous self-correction layer add almost no token cost.

Why Dao Code?

🌐 Availability

A coding agent is only useful if you can actually run it.

  • Claude Code needs an Anthropic account and network access — a high bar to use out of the box in mainland China;
  • GLM's Coding Plan has scarce quota that's often hard to grab;
  • Dao Code is fully open source (MIT), and its base DeepSeek is register-and-go, pay-as-you-go, directly reachable in mainland China — no network gymnastics, no quota grabbing, no waitlist.

💰 Cost

dao-code FAQ

Can I use this to fix bugs in my code?
Yes — you describe the bug, and it searches your code, makes edits, runs tests, and confirms the fix worked.
Which apps does this work in?
It runs on its own in Terminal (the command-line app on Mac, Linux, or Windows) rather than inside apps like Claude Desktop or Cursor, though its setup format is compatible with Claude Code's.
Do I need an account or an API key?
Yes — you need an account and an API key from DeepSeek, the AI company whose models power this tool.
Is this hard to set up?
You install it with one command and paste in your API key; no advanced coding knowledge is required, but you should be comfortable typing commands into a terminal window.
Can I use this to keep a long, multi-day project on track?
Yes — it saves checkpoints, remembers your preferences between sessions, and periodically checks that it hasn't drifted from your original goal.
Does it cost money to use?
Yes — every request runs through your own DeepSeek account, though the makers report typical costs of just a few cents per finished task.
Is this free and open source?
Yes — the tool itself is free to download and open source, though you still pay DeepSeek directly for your usage.
Does it work with other AI companies besides DeepSeek, like OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini?
No — it's built specifically around DeepSeek's models rather than OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini, though its settings format is compatible with Claude Code's.