# Albatross

A terminal-first coding agent that lets you bring your own API key or point at a local model, with transparent multi-model routing, per-turn cost display, session branching, and a separate critic agent that grades work against a rubric.

Albatross is a small coding harness that runs in the terminal and works the same way whether it is talking to a hosted API or a local model server such as Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, or llama.cpp: the same tools, commands, and session log apply either way, and a provider can be switched mid-session.

It shows per-turn and per-session cost on the status line when pricing is known, scores and routes among configured coder models, and can break a task into a graded plan that a configured planner model executes tier by tier. An iteration loop pairs a generator with a separate critic agent that scores each pass against a rubric until it clears the bar, rather than letting the generator grade its own work.

Other features include real turn-level undo, forking a session into two paths to compare fixes, and MCP server support alongside its built-in read, edit, grep, shell, and test tools.

Website: https://albatross.sh