Can I install Hawk today?

Contributor builds from source work today. The polished public install path is not ready yet.

Are Gitant and Lark included with Hawk?

They are separate standalone products on the public roadmap. When they ship, Hawk will integrate them with shared context.

What models will Hawk support?

Hawk is model agnostic — 11 gateways via Eyrie: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, OpenRouter, Z.AI, CanopyWave, OpenCode Go, Kimi, Xiaomi, and Ollama.

Is my code sent to the cloud?

The design is local-first — your code and API keys stay on your machine. Nest needs no account.

How is this different from Cursor, Copilot, or Windsurf?

Those are editors with AI baked in. Hawk is a CLI agent that works with any editor — VS Code, Neovim, Zed, or anything else.

Do I need to install Hawk capabilities separately?

No — when Hawk ships, Eyrie, Trace, Tok, Yaad, Inspect, and Sight are intended to come integrated behind the Hawk CLI.

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From the GrayCode Team

Thoughts on AI, developer tools, and building in the open.

engineeringhawktokeyrieopen-source

Hawk 0.1.0: Production Hardening Across the Ecosystem

We unified the hawk-eco monorepo at version 0.1.0 and spent June on production hardening — compression APIs, safer file writes, stricter CI, and 240+ correctness fixes. Still building features; no public install yet.

Lakshman Patel·June 4, 2026·6 min read

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launchhawkgitantlark

Hawk Product System — Gitant & Lark Standalone

We clarified the GrayCode product line: Hawk is the primary product, its support capabilities live in separate repos, and Gitant and Lark are standalone products on the way. Skills stay built in. Hawk is in development — no public install yet.

Lakshman Patel·May 22, 2026

hawkeyriesetupgateways

11 Gateways, One Setup Panel: Keys, Models, and Safer Deletes

We merged a polished /config Setup TUI in hawk (in development), added Kimi and Xiaomi as first-class eyrie gateways, and fixed the session model sync bug that blocked chat after picking a model.

Lakshman Patel·May 21, 2026

skillsopen-sourcehawk

12,147 Skills: hawk Now Has the Largest Skill Registry of Any Coding Agent

We aggregated skills from 30+ open-source repositories into one searchable registry — 12,147 skills indexed for Hawk when the agent ships.

Lakshman Patel·May 14, 2026

engineeringopen-sourcehawk

How We Studied 60 OSS Agents and Built Something Better

We deep-dived into Codex, Aider, OpenCode, OpenHands, SWE-agent, and 55 more open-source coding agents. Then we implemented every pattern worth having — 200 features, 310K lines, zero dependencies.

Lakshman Patel·May 13, 2026

engineeringcontainerssecurity

Hawk Goes Hermetic: Docker-First Execution

Every command now runs inside a container by default. No permission prompts, full isolation, self-extending environments.

Lakshman Patel·May 8, 2026

engineeringtestingecosystem

138 Tests, 7 Repos, Zero Failures: Strengthening the Hawk Ecosystem

We added prompt caching, MCP servers, cascade routing, and integration tests across all seven projects in one session.

Lakshman Patel·May 8, 2026

engineeringresearchopen-source

What We Learned from Herm and LangDAG

We studied two internal projects deeply and adopted 14 features into hawk — from sub-agent modes to conversation DAGs.

Lakshman Patel·May 8, 2026

engineeringarchitecture

Architecture: Seven Tools, One Ecosystem

How we designed Hawk's multi-tool architecture to share context while keeping each tool independent and fast.

Lakshman Patel·May 2, 2026

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Why We Built GrayCode

One engineer, no funding, one belief: AI coding tools should be open, local, and built by people who use them.

Lakshman Patel·April 30, 2026

launchopen-source

Introducing Hawk: Your Local AI Coding Agent

Hawk is a CLI-first AI coding agent that runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no telemetry, no compromises.

Lakshman Patel·April 28, 2026