Stew Code: The 50KB AI Coding Agent Built in Nigeria That's Rivaling Copilot and Cursor

🆕 Updated September 3, 2026 — Stew Code v2.6.2

Since launch, Stew Code has gained Swarm Mode (/swarm — a team of parallel agents builds together), /explain (ask questions about your codebase), /review (AI code review), /undo (one-keystroke revert), /image (vision — paste a screenshot or photo and ask about it), /voice (spoken responses), /mcp (Model Context Protocol servers), and it now reads any URL you paste before answering. The terminal banner now shows the exact version, and the landing page got a full 3D motion redesign at emmanuelerogian723-alt.github.io/stew-ai.

What if I told you the most powerful AI coding agent in Africa weighs less than a single high-resolution photo?

Stew Code is a 50KB, zero-dependency terminal AI coding agent built in Enugu, Nigeria. It doesn't need VS Code. It doesn't need a subscription. It doesn't need 300MB of disk space. It just needs Node.js 18+ and a terminal.

And it's free.

The Problem Stew Code Solves

Let's be honest. GitHub Copilot costs $10/month. Cursor costs $20/month. Tabnine costs $12/month. For a developer in Silicon Valley, that's pocket change. For a developer in Lagos, Abuja, or Enugu earning in Naira, that's a week's transport budget.

Nigeria has over 5 million developers. Africa has the fastest-growing developer population in the world. Yet most AI coding tools are priced as if every developer earns in dollars.

Stew Code changes that equation.

What Can Stew Code Do?

1. AI Coding Assistant

Chat with AI directly in your terminal. Read and write files, run shell commands, search the web. Stew Code supports 6 AI providers (Groq, Mistral, NVIDIA, OpenRouter, HuggingFace, OpenAI) with automatic failover. If one provider goes down, it switches to the next. Streaming responses, multi-line input, 12 personas.

2. Security Scanner

Type /scan and Stew Code scans your entire codebase for:

Hardcoded API keys, passwords, secrets, tokens
AWS access keys and private keys
Code injection vulnerabilities (eval, exec, innerHTML)
Phishing patterns and suspicious domains
Malware indicators (cryptojacking, keyloggers, backdoors)

20+ pattern matchers with threat scoring from LOW to CRITICAL. No other free AI coding tool has this built in.

3. Self-Verification

When Stew Code writes code, it doesn't just hope it works. It runs 3-pass verification:

Syntax check — compiles the code to catch errors
Logic review — checks file length, TODOs, console.logs in production
Security audit — scans for secrets and injection patterns

If something fails, it automatically retries with fixes up to 3 times.

4. Marathon Mode

Give Stew Code a goal and it runs for hours autonomously. It plans, executes, checkpoints to disk, and self-heals on errors. Kill your terminal, come back tomorrow — it resumes exactly where it left off with stew marathon --resume.

5. Skill Forge — AI That Teaches Itself

When Stew Code encounters a task it can't do, it writes a new skill for itself and starts using it immediately. No plugins. No marketplace. No extensions. Just self-improvement. It comes with 17 built-in skills:

scaffold, test, docker, ci, env, gitignore, deps, explain, security, size, translate, refactor, document, clean, loc, format, checklist, checklist

6. Dev Environment Setup

One command sets up your entire development environment:

/setup vscode — creates .vscode/settings.json, launch.json, tasks.json, extensions.json
/setup opencode — creates opencode.json configuration
/setup all — does everything plus .editorconfig

This works alongside VS Code, alongside any editor. Stew Code doesn't replace your tools — it enhances them.

7. Web Scraper & Crawler

Scrape any URL or crawl entire websites. Extract clean text, links, and metadata. No API key needed.

8. API Caller

Call any REST or GraphQL API from the terminal with custom headers, JSON bodies, and bearer auth.

Stew Code vs The Competition

Feature	Stew Code	Copilot	Cursor
Price	Free	$10/mo	$20/mo
Size	50KB	100MB+	300MB+
Dependencies	Zero	VS Code	Full IDE
Security Scanner	Built-in	No	No
Self-Verification	Built-in	No	No
Marathon Mode	Yes	No	No
Skill Creation	Self-forging	No	No
Open Source	MIT	No	No
Built In	Nigeria 🇳🇬	USA	USA

The Full Stew Ecosystem

Stew Code is part of a larger ecosystem of AI tools built by EROGIAN:

Stew Agent API

An OpenAI-compatible AI agent API with 59 skills, a 100-agent swarm, 12 personas, and 6 AI providers. Deployed on Render. Any tool built for OpenAI can use Stew by changing the base URL to https://stew-agent.onrender.com/v1. Free tier: 1,500 API calls/month.

GitHub: github.com/emmanuelerogian723-alt/Stew-agent

Stew Bot (Telegram)

A Telegram bot powered by the Stew Agent API. Generate songs, images, and documents. OCR support. Free for everyone. 20 music genres including Afrobeat, Gospel, Hip-hop, Amapiano, Fuji, and Highlife.

Try it: t.me/stew_agent_bot

Stew Python SDK

A zero-dependency Python SDK for the Stew Agent API. Python 3.8+. Uses only urllib from the standard library.

GitHub: github.com/emmanuelerogian723-alt/stew-python

How to Install Stew Code

Open your terminal and run:

npm install -g stew-ai
stew code

That's it. No account. No credit card. No setup wizard.

Try these commands:

/setup vscode    # Set up VS Code environment
/scan            # Security scan your code
/verify          # Verify your session files
/image shot.png  # Ask about a screenshot
/web search      # Search the internet
/skills          # List all 17 skills
/forge deploy    # Create a custom skill

Built in Nigeria, For the World

Stew Code was built by Emmanuel Erog (EROGIAN) in Enugu, Nigeria. It was born from a simple frustration: African developers deserve world-class AI tools without paying Silicon Valley prices.

This isn't a stripped-down "emerging market" version. This isn't charity. This is the full-featured tool — security scanner, self-verification, marathon mode, skill forge, dev environment setup — given to the world, built from Africa.

Nigeria has the talent. Africa has the developers. Now we have the tools.