The code editor for your terminal, without modes

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Install

curl -fsSL https://skink.cc/install.sh | sh      # Linux, macOS

irm https://skink.cc/install.ps1 | iex           # Windows

No sudo. The installer checks the SHA-256 and puts one binary in your user folder. Other ways to install

Keys you already know

No insert mode, no motions to learn. Copy, paste, undo and save work the way they do everywhere else.

Everything is a tab

Files, shells, diffs, your AI agent and the help share one tab bar. F12 flips between the file and the shell.

The same editor over SSH

One binary, no GUI, no server component. What you copy on the server lands on your own clipboard.

Bring your own AI agent

Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex and others run in a tab or drive the editor directly. Their edits arrive as a diff you keep or drop.

First steps

skink .                  # open a folder
skink src/main.rs:42     # open a file at line 42

Ctrl+S save · Ctrl+Q quit · Alt+P open a file · Ctrl+E command line · F10 menus · F12 terminal

Also inside: a settings screen, language servers, git hunks, blame and code review, a debugger, multiple cursors, soft wrap, project search, packages and Lua scripts. Read the docs

Develop

cargo test --workspace
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo deny check

Code adapted from other projects says so in its header; the full list is in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Built on Micro's keys, ratatui, ropey, tree-sitter, Lapce's LSP plumbing and the Agent Client Protocol.

License

MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.