Poe Code ⚡

Power your favorite coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more) with your Poe subscription—no need to handle multiple providers/accounts. Poe Code routes everything through the Poe API .

Configure an agent once and use its normal CLI or desktop app, or spawn one-off prompts through Poe.

Quickstart

Set it as your default (works with CLIs and desktop apps)

This updates the provider’s config files and continue using your tools normally.

# Start the interactive setup
npx poe-code@latest configure
# Setup a specific agent
npx poe-code@latest configure codex # (or claude, opencode, kimi, goose)

Unconfigure (remove overrides)

npx poe-code@latest unconfigure claude

Authentication

Poe Code uses your Poe API key for authentication. On first run, you'll be prompted to log in via your browser (OAuth). You can also provide your key directly:

# Interactive login (opens browser)
npx poe-code@latest login
# Or pass your API key directly
npx poe-code@latest login --api-key <your-key># Or set it as an environment variableexport POE_API_KEY=<your-key>

Credentials are stored locally in ~/.poe-code/. Use poe-code auth status to check your login state.

# Remove all configuration and credentials
npx poe-code@latest logout

Quick links

• Utilities
• Usage and Billing
• Models
• SDK
• Research Preview
• Poe API

Utilities

Utilities are especially useful for scripting and CI/CD.

Spawn a one-off prompt

npx poe-code@latest spawn codex "Say hello" --mode read

--mode is the permission mode: yolo | auto | edit | read. It is prompted for in an interactive terminal, but required in CI: without a TTY, spawn fails unless you pass --mode (or --yes, which uses the shared auto default). The same choices apply to gaslight and harness run, and values are case-insensitive (--mode READ works). Only --mode yolo skips the agent's permission prompts, so keep it out of untrusted CI jobs.

Spawn against a GitHub repository

npx poe-code@latest spawn codex "Fix the failing tests" --cwd github://owner/repo --mode edit
npx poe-code@latest spawn codex "Review the auth module" --cwd github://owner/repo#main:packages/auth --mode read

Spawn a prompt via stdin

echo"Say hello"| npx poe-code@latest spawn codex --mode read

Stdin is piped here, so there is no TTY to prompt on — --mode is required.

Review a GitHub pull request

npx poe-code@latest code-review install
npx poe-code@latest code-review run "https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123"
npx poe-code@latest code-review commit "https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123" --dry-run

Test a configured service

npx poe-code@latest test codex

Install agent CLIs

# Claude Code
npx poe-code@latest install claude-code
# Codex
npx poe-code@latest install codex
# OpenCode
npx poe-code@latest install opencode
# Kimi
npx poe-code@latest install kimi
# Goose
npx poe-code@latest install goose

Optional flags

• --dry-run – show every mutation without touching disk.
• --yes – accept defaults for prompts.

Usage & Billing

Check your compute points balance and review usage history.

# Show current balance
poe-code usage
# Show usage history (20 entries, then prompts to load more)
poe-code usage list
# Show a specific number of entries without prompting
poe-code usage list --limit 100
# Filter by model name
poe-code usage list --filter claude

Models

List available Poe API models and filter them by provider, capabilities, modalities, and supported API endpoint.

# List all models
poe-code models
# Show only models that support the Responses API
poe-code models --endpoint /v1/responses
# Show only models that support Chat Completions
poe-code models --endpoint /v1/chat/completions
# Search by provider or model id
poe-code models --search claude

SDK

The isolated poe-code/safe-bash entrypoint and its public subpaths require Node.js 22 or newer. They expose the private workspace package virtual-bash through poe-code; the existing root entrypoints retain their current Node.js requirement and do not load this feature.

Use poe-code programmatically in your own code:

import{spawn,getPoeApiKey,getPoeAuthIdentity}from"poe-code";// Get stored API keyconstapiKey=awaitgetPoeApiKey();// Fetch the authenticated Poe account identityconstidentity=awaitgetPoeAuthIdentity();// Run a prompt through a providerconstresult=awaitspawn("claude-code",{prompt: "Fix the bug in auth.ts",cwd: "/path/to/project",model: "claude-sonnet-4-6"});// Spawn against a GitHub repositoryconst{ events,result: ghResult}=spawn("codex",{prompt: "Review the auth module",cwd: "github://owner/repo#main:packages/auth"});console.log(result.stdout);

For plugin-first agent composition, import the public agent builder from the poe-code/agent subpath:

import{agent,openaiResponsesPlugin,systemPromptPlugin}from"poe-code/agent";construn=awaitagent().model("gpt-5.5").use(openaiResponsesPlugin()).use(systemPromptPlugin()).run("Summarize the current repository",{cwd: process.cwd()});console.log(run.output);

spawn(service, options)

Runs a single prompt through a configured service CLI.

• service – Service identifier (claude-code, codex, opencode, kimi, goose)
• options.prompt – The prompt to send
• options.cwd – Working directory or workspace locator (optional). Supports local paths and github://owner/repo[#ref[:subdir]] locators. See @poe-code/workspace-resolver for the full locator syntax.
• options.model – Model identifier override (optional)
• options.mode – Permission mode: yolo, auto, edit, or read (optional; defaults to auto. Agents without an auto mode fail clearly)
• options.args – Additional arguments forwarded to the CLI (optional)

Returns { stdout, stderr, exitCode }.

spawn.pretty(service, options)

Same as spawn(), but renders the ACP event stream to stdout with colored, formatted output — matching the CLI's visual style.

import{spawn}from"poe-code"constresult=awaitspawn.pretty("codex","Fix the bug in auth.ts")console.log(result.exitCode)

Returns Promise<{ stdout, stderr, exitCode }>.

getPoeApiKey()

Reads the Poe API key with the following priority:

1. POE_API_KEY environment variable
2. Credentials file (~/.poe-code/credentials.enc)

Throws if no credentials found.

getPoeAuthIdentity()

Fetches the Poe account identity for the resolved API key.

import{getPoeAuthIdentity}from"poe-code";constidentity=awaitgetPoeAuthIdentity();console.log(identity.name,identity.handle);

Uses POE_API_KEY or the stored credential and honors POE_BASE_URL. Throws an API error when Poe rejects the credential.

Testing

Builds and tests do not install or require GNU/native oracle utilities. Existing captured responses remain plain regression fixtures; live tool qualification and provisioning have been removed. SafeJS's Git module and SafeBash's Git commands are no longer supported. Repository Git, worktrees and release tooling remain unchanged.

Run npm test for workspace/unit tests followed by the required lint stress tests. A failing unit stage fails the command before stress testing begins. npm run test:workspaces -- --concurrency=4 runs only the workspace/unit stage; it is not the complete test gate.

npm run test:stress:lint runs the two full-scale lint-input guard cases sequentially, with a 180-second budget per case. These are explicit stress-test budgets, not evidence that the former 30/20-second unit deadlines passed. Release CI requires this exclusive stress step, bounded to seven minutes, after workspace tests and before smoke testing or publication. See the stress separation plan.

Research Preview

These features are available but subject to breaking changes.

• Pipeline — Run YAML task plans through agents with configurable steps
• Ralph — Agentic build loop that iterates on a markdown doc
• Experiment loop — Karpathy-style optimize loop: agent changes code, eval script scores it, keep or discard via git, repeat.
• Poe Agent — Composable agent runtime