Digitorn
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Coding agent

An open-source alternative to Smol Developer

A minimal one-shot codegen project that generates a small app from a prompt.

Digitorn is a YAML-first AI agent runtime. Open source, self-hosted, with multi-agent dispatch built in. Below: what Smol Developer does well, why teams switch, and where Digitorn fits.

About Smol Developer

Smol Developer is a focused one-shot codegen tool: feed it a prompt, get back a small project. It is great for prototyping new ideas and unblocking writer's block on a fresh project. It is not designed for ongoing maintenance, refactors, or multi-turn iteration.

What Smol Developer does well
  • Excellent for one-shot project bootstrapping
  • Minimal codebase, easy to fork
  • Good for non-engineers exploring an idea
Why teams look for an alternative
  • One-shot, not iterative, no real conversation loop
  • No memory of previous sessions
  • No multi-agent, no read-before-edit guards, no test integration
  • Production deploys are out of scope
Why Digitorn

What you get when you switch

Iterative loop with real memory

Conversations persist. The agent remembers what it just did and what you asked for two turns ago.

Test-after-edit by default

Run pytest, npm test, or whatever you configure, automatically after every edit. Self-correct on failure.

Same agent, ongoing maintenance

Bootstrap a project on Monday, evolve it on Friday. Same YAML, same agent, same conventions.

Try it in 5 minutes

Install and run a real agent

# one-line install (Mac, Linux, Windows + Git Bash)
curl -sSL https://digitorn.ai/install | sh

# install a coding agent from the Hub
digitorn install hub://digitorn/digitorn-code

# chat with it
digitorn chat digitorn-code
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