--- title: maki | daily.dev description: Maki is an AI coding agent built with a native Rust TUI running at 60 FPS with low memory usage. It optimizes token usage by indexing files into skeletons... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/maki-v2pcvidki twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: maki | daily.dev og:description: Maki is an AI coding agent built with a native Rust TUI running at 60 FPS with low memory usage. It optimizes token usage by indexing files into skeletons... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/maki-v2pcvidki og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/V2PCVidKi.png og:image:alt: maki og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # maki **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Maki is an AI coding agent built with a native Rust TUI running at 60 FPS with low memory usage. It optimizes token usage by indexing files into skeletons (imports, type defs, function signatures) using tree-sitter instead of reading full files, saving ~165 tokens per turn. A sandboxed Python interpreter lets the model chain async tool calls so intermediate data never pollutes context. Features include multi-tier subagents (haiku for grep tasks, opus for architecture), automatic context compaction, per-command permission parsing, long-term memory, MCP support, and compatibility with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other APIs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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