Mango Code
a local coding agent
A coding agent that works on your PC, with models that run there and not in the cloud. A tool for developers.
Windows · works without a graphics card too
Why I made it
Optimizing models, I ended up with lots of scattered pieces: engine changes, settings for my cards, tricks measured one by one. I gathered them in one place, starting from OpenCode, an open source agent, and the next ones will go there too. Put together, it becomes a base to specialize for a specific job, like making documents or videos: that's how Mango Animation hooks into it.
What you learn
How far a fully local coding agent goes today, on ordinary gaming cards, old ones too. A small, compressed model fails where a big one doesn't: to make it perform you have to improve everything around it: instructions, tools, checks. And that's harder for a weak model than for a strong one.
What it does
- Optimize it on your PC
- Out of the box Mango Code uses settings that work on any PC, but aren't made for yours. That's why it includes a skill with everything I learned optimizing mine: give it to a strong agent, for example Claude Code, and ask “Optimize Mango Code on my PC”. It measures your cards, tries one setting at a time, checks quality holds and writes the fastest profile for your models.
- Remote connection from your phone
- Use Mango Code from your phone, at home or away, while the model works on your PC. Off until you turn it on.
- Models already tested
- On first run it looks at your graphics cards, processor and memory, tells you which models fit and downloads the ones you pick. I tested six on my hardware, including TOQ, a 27-billion Qwen I compressed to 2 bits. You add others from Hugging Face.
- Pick up without waiting
- It saves the conversation before stopping: when you come back it reads only the new parts.
- You decide what goes in the prompt
- Switch tools and skills on and off one by one, and see how many tokens each costs.
- Built-in tools
- A browser the agent drives on its own, web search, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents, local voice dictation.
Where it's going
Mango Code 0.1 is for Windows and runs on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel cards, or on the processor alone: the more memory the card has, the bigger and faster the models that fit. When you open the installer, Windows says “Windows protected your PC”: click “More info”, then “Run anyway”.
- Keep it up to date with the latest open models as they come out.
- Optimize it further: faster and lighter on the same cards.
