Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
norte: a file commander with rules for AI agents
An open-source file manager that brings terminal and desktop views together across local files, remote servers, cloud storage and archives.
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- People managing files across terminals, desktops and remote storage
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- The page lists separate AGPL-3.0 and MIT/Apache-2.0 licensing for the core/frontends and protocol, providers, test kit and plugin SDK.
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The homepage describes copies, comparisons, syncs and indexes as observable, cancellable background tasks, with a journal shared by the terminal and window clients. It lists local storage, SFTP, FTP, S3 and several archive formats, plus MCP and WASM plugins. The page says the core and official frontends use AGPL-3.0, while the protocol, VFS providers, test kit and plugin SDK use MIT/Apache-2.0.
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