Agent Shell Emacs 2026: Vendor-Neutral Chat with AI Agents from Emacs
agent-shell is a native Emacs shell that lets you talk to any AI coding agent from a single buffer, powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol) rather than any single vendor. It supports 18+ agents including Claude Agent, Codex, Gemini CLI, Goose, and Grok Build, and by September 2026 it has grown to roughly 1,824 GitHub stars. You install it from MELPA, configure authentication with environment variables, and switch agents without leaving Emacs. ...