🚀 Announcing CCHarbour — a Claude Code-style AI coding assistant built in Harbour

[antonio....@gmail.com]

I'm excited to share CCHarbour, an open-source terminal AI assistant that brings Claude Code-style agentic coding to the Harbour/xBase ecosystem.

What is it?
CCHarbour is a fully autonomous coding assistant that runs in your terminal. It reads, writes and edits files, searches with glob/grep, runs shell commands, searches the web, interacts with GitHub, and maintains persistent memory — all driven by the DeepSeek API (with more models to come).

Built with Harbour, for Harbour developers
CCHarbour is written entirely in Harbour (plus a small C console layer). It compiles with both BCC (Embarcadero) and MinGW-w64, and the resulting cc.exe is a standalone Windows binary — no DLLs, no runtimes, no Python/Node dependencies.

Self-building & embeddable
  • The project builds itself from source (build_cc.bat or GitHub Actions CI/CD)
  • The same cc.hbp project can be integrated into any Harbour application- Want an AI assistant inside your Harbour app? Just link the modules and call DS_AgentRun()
  • Full streaming SSE client, tool system, markdown rendering — all in pure HarbourKey features
  • 🤖 Multi-turn agent loop with tool execution- 📝 Read, write, edit files with diff output- 🔍 Glob & grep search- 🖥️ Shell command execution- 🌐 Web search (DuckDuckGo, no API key) & web fetch- 🐙 GitHub read/write operations- 🧠 Persistent memory across sessions- ⏸️ Pause/resume tool execution with Esc- 💬 Conversation save/load (/save, /load)
  • 💰 Token cost tracking (/cost)
  • 🌐 Web playground at https://fivetechsoft.github.io/CCHarbour/playground/
  • 📚 Full documentation at https://fivetechsoft.github.io/CCHarbour/

Getting started
  git clone https://github.com/FiveTechSoft/CCHarbour.gitcd CCHarbourset DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-...
  build_cc.batcc.exe```

  No API key needed for web search. No configuration needed to start.

  **Why this matters for the Harbour community**
  For the first time, Harbour developers have access to a modern AI coding assistant that understands the Harbour language, its idioms, and its toolchain — because it's written in Harbour itself. CCHarbour can help with code generation, refactoring, debugging, documentation, and exploring unfamiliar codebases.

  The project is **open source** (MIT-style) at:
  https://github.com/FiveTechSoft/CCHarbourContributions, issues, and ideas welcome! Let's bring Harbour into the AI era together. 🚢⚓---

[antonio....@gmail.com]

As a curiosity quite curious: CCHarbour is already improving it itself  👍🏻. See the commits!

best regards

[antonio....@gmail.com]

Imagine your Harbour ERP being able to write and debug code itself upon users prompts 👍🏻

[Marco Boeri]

Sorry, i am Little slow

Its underlying Claude or deepseek?

Regards, Marco 

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[antonio....@gmail.com]

It works in a similar way to Claude Code.

It uses DeepSeek as the AI engine. Can be easily replaced with another one.

DeepSeek-v4-flash is excellent and very cheap