usewhale/Whale

Whale — blazingly fast, terminal-first AI coding agent for DeepSeek. ~98% prompt cache hit rate, 1M context, MCP tools, dynamic workflows.

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How fast usewhale/Whale is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Sep 6 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +20 in 60 days

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Forks +16 in 60 days

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Merged PRs 0 in 60 days

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Mon, Nov 2, 2026	+1	+0	0
Tue, Nov 3, 2026	+0	+0	0
Wed, Nov 4, 2026	+3	+0	0
Total	+20	+16	0

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Jul 161 post
- Whale – 98% Cache Hit with DeepSeek
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Jun 61 post
- DeepSeek deserves a coding tool built for it. DeepSeek Code Whale is a Go based terminal AI coding assistant tuned for DeepSeek with 1M token context. - TUI, CLI, and headless CI modes - MCP support…
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Jun 51 post
- 一个专为 DeepSeek 优化的终端 AI 编程助手，支持超长上下文、持久会话、工具调用和动态工作流。 Whale 是一个 Go 写的终端 AI 编程工具，专门为 DeepSeek 模型优化，能处理 100 万 token 的上下文。它有三种用法：TUI 交互模式、CLI 一次性命令、headless 跑 CI。会话可以持久保存，关掉后回来还能接着聊。支持 MCP 协议，能接 1000…
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Jun 31 post
- DeepSeek专用的终端 coding agent 越来越有意思了。不是又一个多模型大杂烩，而是扎在 DeepSeek 的 1M 上下文和廉价推理上做优化。Go 写的，启动快，持久会话支持 MCP 和动态工作流（JS 编排多 agent）。终端里直接干活，开发体验很克制，值得长期关注。
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May 231 post2 posts
- 平时拿 DeepSeek 写代码的人，可以看看 DeepSeek-Code-Whale。 GitHub：开源终端 AI 编程 Agent，专为 DeepSeek 模型优化，支持 MCP 工具、Skills 扩展、代码任务执行、前缀缓存优化（90% 缓存命中率）、1M 上下文窗口、git worktree 隔离、read-only /ask 模式、/plan 规划模式。适用场景： • 想降低…
  Read full on X, posted by @wsl8297
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- Terminal AI coding agent built for DeepSeek. Features: MCP tool integration, Skills extension system, prefix-cache optimization for 97% live hit rate, 1M context window. Would this fit your current…
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May 121 post
- 在终端里跑 DeepSeek API 做编程 Agent，靠 prefix-cache 把长任务成本压下来 Whale 是个 Go 写的 DeepSeek 终端 Agent，跑在 TUI 里。它专门针对 DeepSeek 的 prefix-cache 机制做了设计，追加式对话、固定上下文顺序、会话可恢复，长任务能持续吃到缓存，官方说能到 90% 缓存命中、单任务成本比 Claude Code…
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