Feature Request: Headless CLI mode (qoder exec) for programmatic LLM access

Feature Requests
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Problem

Many automation workflows (CI/CD pipelines, batch processing, third-party tools like `ooo`) need to invoke Qoder’s AI model programmatically from scripts or other CLI tools. Currently, Qoder only offers a GUI-based desktop experience — there is no way to run a one-shot prompt from the command line, pipe input/output, or integrate Qoder into shell scripts and automation pipelines.

For example, the open-source tool `ooo` (ouroboros-ai) uses `codex` or `claude` CLI as its LLM backend for quality assessment (`ooo qa`). Users who prefer Qoder’s models cannot use `ooo` with Qoder because there is no headless CLI entry point.

Solution

Add a `qoder exec` (or `qodercli`) command that provides a non-interactive, headless execution mode:

```

Basic usage: read prompt from stdin, output response to stdout

echo “Summarize this file” | qoder exec --model qwork-auto

Pass prompt as argument

qoder exec --prompt “Explain this error log” --model qwork-advanced

Pipe-friendly: no GUI, no TUI, just text in → text out

cat report.md | qoder exec --model qwork-auto --system “You are a concise summarizer”

Timeout control

qoder exec --prompt “…” --timeout 120

Context directory (like QoderWork’s workspace)

qoder exec --prompt “Review this code” --context-dir ./src
```

Key design points:

  • Exit after one response (no interactive loop)
  • stdout = model response, stderr = diagnostics/errors
  • `–model` flag to select model tier
  • `–timeout` for external process control
  • `–context-dir` to provide file system context
  • `–system` for system prompt override
  • Return non-zero exit code on errors

Use Case

  • CI/CD pipelines: automated code review, commit message generation, PR summarization
  • Third-party CLI tools: `ooo`, `aider`, and similar tools could use Qoder as a backend
  • Batch processing: run Qoder on hundreds of files in a script loop
  • Developer workflows: integrate Qoder into shell scripts, Makefiles, git hooks
  • Scheduled tasks: cron jobs that invoke Qoder for periodic analysis

Priority

:yellow_circle: Medium - Important improvement

Additional Info

Similar features in other products: `claude` CLI (Anthropic), `codex` CLI (OpenAI), `gemini` CLI (Google). This is a common pattern for developer-facing AI platforms.