Hey Product Hunt, I built Ikie because I was frustrated with how expensive AI coding assistants had become. Every long refactor session with the existing tools felt like watching money burn. They re-uploaded the entire context on every turn, charged premium subscriptions, and still left me manually running tests and fixing the errors they introduced. I wanted an AI pair programmer that was fast, verifiable, and cheap enough to use all day. So I made Ikie. Ikie is a terminal-based coding assistant that focuses on three things: Cost efficiency through prompt caching. Real session: 40 multi-turn queries on a 90K+ token context cost $1.06 total. That makes AI coding accessible to hobbyists, freelancers, and bootstrapped teams. Autonomous self-healing. After every mutating edit, Ikie runs your project's test command from .ikie.json. If something breaks, it reads the failure, reflects, and retries up to three times. Smart local context retrieval. A zero-dependency TF-IDF retriever finds the files you actually need, with code-aware tokenization and lazy index rebuilds. It is open-source friendly, has a free Hobby plan, and supports custom MCP servers and skills. I would love your feedback. Try it, break it, and tell me what you think.

Ikie

A token-efficient, self-healing terminal AI coding assistant

A token-efficient, self-healing terminal AI coding assistant