Blackbox CLI
Blackbox's open-source terminal coding agent with plan mode, a multi-agent mode that runs agents in parallel, headless mode for CI/CD, and support for AGENTS.md, MCP servers, hooks and skills, metered per token against a Blackbox balance.
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What it does
- Agentic coding
- Code generation
Features 5
- Plan modeDivides complex tasks into ordered steps you can approve, comment on or rewrite before changes apply.
- Multi-agent modeThe /multi-agent command sends one task to several agents, each on its own Git worktree.
- MCP, plugins, hooks and skillsReads AGENTS.md, plugins, hooks, skills and MCP servers with no configuration.
- Headless modeRuns agents inside scripts and CI pipelines without an interactive prompt.
- Web searchStarts automatically when a task needs real-time information and cites sources.
Sources
- Pricing
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"Every surface uses the same balance: Enterprise Inference, the Blackbox Router, the API, the CLI, and the Agents API." "Metering is per token, not per seat". The CLI's code is open source; its licence is not named on the page.
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Official documentation · 10 Oct 2026
"The AI coding CLI built for parallel agents." Plan mode, multi-agent mode, headless mode (-p) for CI/CD, AGENTS.md, MCP servers, hooks and skills.
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Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026
Derived from the security facts on this page, from the same source.
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Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026
Page: 'Training opt-out is on by default, and we enforce it with the upstream providers that we route to, wherever the provider API supports it'. / Page: 'Zero Data Retention keeps prompts, code context, and completions in memory only'.
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Official documentation · 10 Oct 2026
Installed directly with npm install -g @blackbox/cli or the install script; "Blackbox CLI is fully open source, with the code available on GitHub."
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Official documentation · 10 Oct 2026
Page title "Blackbox CLI: AI Coding Agent for the Terminal"; "Blackbox CLI is an open-source AI coding agent for your terminal."
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Platform listing · 14 Oct 2026
npm listing published by _blackbox-ai_ (npm maintainer, code@blackbox.ai): 'Vision Model Support - Automatically detect images in your input and seamlessly switch to vision-capable models for multimodal analysis'.
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Blackbox Router API service
A gateway that puts 300+ open and closed models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, routes each request to the best-performing provider with latency load-balancing and failover, and enforces zero data retention and no training on routed traffic.
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Blackbox Enterprise Inference Infrastructure service
Single-tenant hosting of an open-weight model the customer picks, or its own fine-tuned weights, on capacity reserved for that customer behind an OpenAI-compatible API, with in-memory processing, SSO, SCIM, role-based access and audit logs streamed to the customer's SIEM.
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Blackbox Agents API API service
An HTTP API that dispatches coding tasks to agents in isolated cloud sandboxes, streams every terminal event, can send one task to Blackbox, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini at once with a judging model picking the best result, and turns a successful run into a pull request.
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