This roadmap reflects the features most requested by users and gaps identified in competitive analysis. Items are ordered by expected impact. Community contributions are welcome on all of them.
IDE integration is the biggest UX gap vs closed-source alternatives. A VS Code extension that embeds the nex-code REPL or exposes it as a sidebar panel would close this gap entirely.
- Status: Planned
- Issue: open for contributors
Frontend workflows require browser automation — screenshot capture, DOM inspection, visual regression.
- Status: Shipped (v0.3.15) —
browser_open,browser_screenshot,browser_click,browser_filltools. Requires:npm install playwright && npx playwright install chromium. Gracefully degrades if not installed.
vim, top, htop, less, ssh and other interactive commands need a PTY to work correctly inside the agent loop.
- Status: Shipped (v0.3.14) — interactive commands auto-detected and spawned with
stdio:inherit
Web search via DuckDuckGo is already built in. Perplexity adds AI-summarized, cited results.
- Status: Shipped (v0.3.15) — set
PERPLEXITY_API_KEYin.envto enable. Falls back to DuckDuckGo automatically.
Tools for interacting with GitHub Actions from within the agent.
- Status: Shipped (v0.3.15) —
gh_run_list,gh_run_view,gh_workflow_triggertools. RequiresghCLI authenticated.
First-class remote server management for AlmaLinux 9 and macOS, plus Docker and rsync-based deployments.
- Status: Shipped (v0.3.23) —
ssh_exec,ssh_upload,ssh_download,service_manage,service_logs,container_list,container_logs,container_exec,container_manage,deploytools. Plus/initwizard,/servers,/docker,/deploycommands. Configure via.nex/servers.jsonand.nex/deploy.json.
| Feature | Notes |
|---|---|
| Web dashboard for sessions/costs | Browser UI showing session history, token spend |
| Multi-repo agent | Span agent context across multiple git repos |
Kubernetes tools (kubectl wrapper) |
First-class K8s workflow support |
See CHANGELOG or recent commits for what just landed.
Pick any Planned item above and open a PR. Check CONTRIBUTING.md for the dev setup. For discussion on any roadmap item, open a GitHub Issue.