Blackbox CLI

Delegate coding tasks to Blackbox AI via the Hermes terminal. Blackbox is a multi-model coding agent CLI that dispatches tasks to multiple LLMs (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Blackbox Pro) and uses a judge to select the best implementation.

The CLI is open-source (GPL-3.0, TypeScript, forked from Gemini CLI) and supports interactive sessions, non-interactive one-shots, checkpointing, MCP, and vision model switching.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+ installed
• Blackbox CLI installed: npm install -g @blackboxai/cli
• Or install from source:

  git clone https://github.com/blackboxaicode/cli.git
  cd cli && npm install && npm install -g .
  

• API key from app.blackbox.ai/dashboard
• Configured: run blackbox configure and enter your API key
• Use pty=true in terminal calls — Blackbox CLI is an interactive terminal app