Bolt puts a full AI engineering team inside your terminal. It reads your codebase, understands what you’re building, and ships code alongside you — through a fast keyboard-driven TUI or a native desktop application.Documentation Index
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Why Bolt?
Bolt is designed around the way developers actually work: in the terminal, across multiple sessions, on real codebases. Here’s what sets it apart:- Terminal-first TUI. A fast, keyboard-driven interface built with Effect, OpenTUI, and SolidJS. It feels native because it is.
- A whole team of agents. Ten specialized agents —
code,plan,ask,code-review,debug,refactor,docs,security,migrate, andperf— plus subagents for research and multi-step delegation. Switch between them withTab. - Sessions you can leave and re-join. Detach from a session and attach later, even on a remote server. Fork, share, export, and import work at any time. Sessions are stored in SQLite and fully inspectable with
bolt db. - Extensible by design. MCP servers with full OAuth support, a plugin system, GitHub integration, a built-in API server, and a web UI.
- Desktop app. The same engine wrapped in a multi-window, multi-tab desktop experience — with an integrated terminal, file tree, command palette, 17 UI languages, and auto-updates.
Built-in agents
Bolt ships with ten specialized agents. Each agent has a defined level of file-system access to match its purpose.| Agent | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|
code | Full | Default: reads, writes, and runs code |
plan | Read | Explores the codebase and produces a plan without changing files |
ask | Read | Questions and research — no file edits |
code-review | Read | Reviews changes for correctness, style, and security |
debug | Full | Debugs failing tests, crashes, and logic errors |
refactor | Full | Safe refactoring with test verification at each step |
docs | Edit | Writes and updates documentation and comments |
security | Read | Security audit: vulnerabilities, secrets, patterns |
migrate | Full | Framework upgrades and dependency migrations |
perf | Full | Performance analysis and optimization |
bolt agent create.
Desktop app
Bolt also ships as a standalone desktop app with multi-window and multi-tab session management, a prompt composer with attachment and clipboard image paste support, an integrated terminal and file tree, a command palette, full settings for keybindings, models, providers and servers, native notifications, deep links, WSL integration on Windows, and auto-updates across dev, beta, and production channels. Download the desktop app from the releases page, or install it in one line on macOS with no Gatekeeper detour:Explore the docs
Installation
Install Bolt via curl, npm, bun, pnpm, yarn, or your system package manager. Covers macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Quickstart
Go from zero to your first AI-assisted coding session in under a minute.
Agents
Deep-dive into each of the ten built-in agents and learn how to create your own.
Configuration
Configure providers, models, MCP servers, plugins, and environment variables.