Imagine your coding agent gets dropped on a desert island and is allowed to bring one thing. What would it pick? A Swiss Army knife, obviously. The terminal is that island — sometimes it's a bare, lonely sandbox with nothing on it, sometimes it's a rich setup like a Mac Studio with everything you could want. But as long as the agent has a knife it can pull any tool out of, it'll be fine. That knife is godmode.

What it does

godmode is a local capability runtime with one CLI grammar for everything you install — APIs, MCP servers, and local commands. Each of those is an extension, and they all take the same shape:

godmode [extension] [interface] [args]

The runtime is designed to put policy, credentials, and audit around every capability invocation: a Stripe extension can hide account edits, a filesystem extension can restrict paths, and a database extension can forbid writes. When the surrounding agent host enforces a safe command boundary, one godmode command permission can expose that governed toolbelt without registering each source capability separately.

npm install -g godmode
godmode ext install stripe
godmode stripe api GET customers cus_123
godmode stripe mcp                          # serve over MCP

See the docs for installation, the full grammar, authentication, and integrations.