Loushang: review, pricing, security and alternatives

What Loushang does

Loushang belongs to the coding agents family: they read a repository, edit files, run the tests and fix things until everything passes, in a terminal or an editor. On our grid it ranks #47 of the 74 projects of this family listed in the directory.

Who is Loushang for?

It is aimed at developers and technical teams who want to hand off part of the work on their codebase while keeping the final review. Typical tasks people give it:

• fix a bug from an issue or an error message
• write or extend tests
• migrate code to a new library version
• explain an unfamiliar codebase

It is a good candidate if your data must stay on your machines.

Access and human control

Its documentation does not detail the access granted to the agent: check the settings before connecting it to your accounts.

We could not establish whether it asks for human approval before sensitive actions: test it first on an unimportant account or folder.

Loushang pricing

The code is free, under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Getting started with Loushang

1. Install it: the project ships as a Python package (install with pip or uv). The exact command is in the repository README.
2. Create an API key with the model provider and put it in an environment variable, never in a shared or versioned file.
3. Give it a first playground with nothing at stake: a test folder, a secondary account or a throwaway project. Only open your real accounts once you have seen how it behaves.
4. Give it a short, checkable task, review the result and its action log, then raise the difficulty step by step.

Security: risk level

A coding agent runs commands on your machine: work on a Git branch, review the changes and isolate it in a container for long tasks.

Three habits: least privilege (minimal rights, dedicated keys), human approval for irreversible actions, a sandbox for code execution. The AI agent security check reviews your setup in a few minutes.

Project activity and releases

Created on May 29, 2026, the zhnt/loushang repository has 1,859 stars, 289 forks and 44 open issues, with 4,120 commits in total. It received changes this month.

Over the last 52 weeks: 3,199 commits, an average of 61.5 per week.

The project publishes no numbered releases on GitHub: you install it from the main branch or a package manager.

Loushang vs other coding agents

GitHub stars of the best-rated open-source projects in the coding agents family. Stars measure attention, not quality: a heavily promoted project collects them fast, a specialised tool will have few.

Loushang and other coding agents at a glance

The 7 best-ranked agents in the same family, 7 of them open source. The score out of 100 only applies to open-source projects; for proprietary services we show the published entry price. A dash marks information the documentation does not state.

How we rated it

Score: 55/100, computed only from public, verifiable data, with no subjective testing or partnership:

• Adoption 15/40: 1,859 stars on a log scale (40 points from about 200,000).
• Activity 20/30: last commit less than a month ago, 0 releases in six months, 3,199 commits in a year.
• Framework 20/30: licence, default human approval, self-hosting, model choice and documentation site.

The score does not say whether the agent will succeed at your tasks: it measures how solid the project is. The full grid is on the method page.