The questions you would ask before trying this

No — nothing is published, for any platform, and there is no waitlist. What exists today is the source. You clone the repo, run npm install, then npm run electron:rebuild to rebuild the native modules against Electron’s ABI, then npm run electron:dev to open the app.

The packaging is real even though the artefacts are not published: npm run dist builds an installer for whichever OS you are on — a .dmg and a .zip on macOS, an NSIS installer plus a portable .exe on Windows, an .AppImage and a .deb on Linux. Releases are cut by pushing a v* tag, and mane.dev is where one would be announced. What it needs to run →

README, “Install” · electron-builder.yml

There is no price, because there is nothing to buy yet — no pricing page, no tiers, no trial. Two costs are worth keeping apart.

The 8code sign-in is free, and it is not a provider account. The models are not 8code’s to sell: every run goes through an agent CLI you are already signed into, on your own subscription. 8code holds no API key for any of them and never asks you for a provider credential, so nothing is marked up in between. Whatever a licence eventually costs, it will be for the app, not for the tokens.

The software itself is proprietary — licensed, not sold, under its own EULA.

README, “Install” and “License”

The security doc reduces the whole design to one sentence: your code leaves your machine only through a provider path you selected. The engine binds 127.0.0.1 with Host and Origin checks on every API route. There is no 8code server to phone home to; the single network call the app itself makes is a daily anonymous update check against public GitHub release metadata, disclosed in Settings and switchable off.

The other half of the truth: when you drive Claude Code or Codex, your prompt and its code context go to that vendor — that one and no other, in-process, on its own login, with no proxying and no token reuse. The built-in free HTTP models get no repo context at all, and that firewall is deliberate. The local index skips .env files, keys and credentials by name and is written owner-only.

docs/privacy-and-security.md

Eight agent CLIs: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kimi, Antigravity, Grok and Muse. GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4 run as key lanes through the same claude binary.

Only the CLIs you have actually installed and signed into appear as usable — the app auto-detects them on open. The model line-up this site prints is read from lib/agents.js, the registry the app loads at startup, rather than from the README’s table, which is transcribed by hand and has drifted from the registry before. The full table →

lib/agents.js · README, “Works with the CLIs you already have”

Three of them, and 8code types none of them for you.

8code itself. The app opens on a mandatory device-flow sign-in against auth.mane.dev. It is free and it is not a provider account, but it is not optional either: the UI stays locked until it is done.

Each agent CLI. Settings → Models & keys opens a Terminal so that CLI runs its own OAuth flow. No API key, no configuration.

GitHub, if you want PR ↗ and /review: run gh auth login yourself. The in-app GitHub Connect card was removed on 2026-07-22 and has not been replaced. 8code drives your gh and stores no token; the credential stays in your OS keychain.

README, “Install” and the Integrations note

That the v0.9.0 described here is the current source checkout, not a released installer. The README is precise about the newer capabilities: they are “present in this source branch/current checkout (source support only; this does not claim these changes are on origin/main or in a released v0.9.0 installer)”.

This site keeps the same rule. The screenshots are the real app running from source on the machine that built this page, the facts come from the repo rather than from a press release, and nothing here describes a build you could download — because there is not one.

README, the NOTE block