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Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks
Turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks — each with its own runner, model and mode — then execute and verify it.
Node.js ≥ 20 on macOS, Linux or Windows. The TUI also needs tmux — see
Platform support below.
That's it. First run asks for a planner and a runner, set from inside
(/planner, /runners, /key) — no restart, no API key required up front.
npx ordewell works the same without a global install; the package also
ships scoped as @ordewell/cli.
For VS Code instead, install the extension — it carries its own core, so
there is nothing to install from npm:
Building from source:
git clone https://github.com/ordewell/ordewell.git && cd ordewell && npm install && npm run build && npm link -w packages/cli
— see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Every slash command is also a subcommand — set the planner and runner by env
var to skip the TUI entirely.
Already run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode? No separate API key — it
runs on the subscription you already hold:
Mutation always stays with the runners; the planner agent only explores and
reasons. Same toggles apply from a UI: /planner, /model,
/planner-effort, or the planner bar in VS Code.
Prefer an API key? Twenty-five providers are recognised via their own
*_API_KEY — OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, xAI, Groq, DeepSeek,
Mistral, Together, Fireworks, Perplexity, Cerebras, DeepInfra, Cohere,
Novita, Kimi, Zhipu, Qwen, Doubao, Hunyuan, Baichuan, MiniMax, Yi, StepFun
and SiliconFlow. Run ordewell key for variable names, or point
OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_BASE_URL at anything else, including a local model
server.