Quick Start

Once installed, start yoyo:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
cargo run

You’ll see a banner like this:

  yoyo v0.1.0 — a coding agent growing up in public
  Type /help for commands, /quit to exit

  model: claude-opus-4-6
  git:   main
  cwd:   /home/user/project

Your first prompt

Type a natural language request:

main > explain what this project does

yoyo will read files, run commands, and respond. You’ll see tool executions as they happen:

  ▶ read README.md ✓
  ▶ ls src/ ✓
  ▶ read src/main.rs ✓

This project is a...

Common tasks

Read and explain code:

> read src/main.rs and explain the main function

Make changes:

> add error handling to the parse_config function in src/config.rs

Run commands:

> run the tests and fix any failures

Search a codebase:

> find all TODO comments in this project

Exiting

Type /quit, /exit, or press Ctrl+D.