- type
- Coding agent
- interface
- Desktop IDE (VS Code fork) + CLI (@cleanslate/cli npm package) + SDK (@cleanslate/sdk npm package)
- openSource
- Yes (MIT)
- lineage
- Fork of Visual Studio Code (MIT); Execution mode (full access) vs Plan mode (read-only analysis); can control a web browser to verify its own work; MCP server integration; BYOK across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) or managed models via optional CleanSlate Pro
- note
- Show HN 2026-08-02. Distinct from other VS Code-fork agentic IDEs (Cursor, Trae, Kiro, Devin Desktop) by shipping the same agent engine across an editor fork, a standalone CLI, and an SDK from one codebase, and by being a single-maintainer OSS project
- iconUrl
- /research/harness-icons/cleanslate.png
