Hide – A Headless IDE for Coding Agents

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After making several attempts to make coding agents work I noticed the same pattern: the better the tools you give to agents, the better outcomes they produce. So I thought what if I gave them a proper IDE except it would be headless since agents don’t need a UI? That’s how I came to build Hide, a headless IDE for coding agents. Hide is built on top of existing tools and standards for coding like devcontainers and LSP. When given a code repo, Hide spins up a devcontainer, installs the dependencies, and provides APIs for codebase interaction. Developers can craft custom toolkits using Hide APIs or use Hide's pre-built toolkits for popular frameworks like Langchain. The project is still a work in progress but it can already be tried. I’m curious to hear what you think.

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