Company
Date Published
Author
Antonello Zanini
Word count
2484
Language
English
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None

Summary

Crush is an open-source AI coding agent designed to provide AI assistance within terminal environments across various operating systems, offering multi-model support and the ability to maintain multiple work sessions. By integrating with the Bright Data Web MCP server, Crush enhances its capabilities, allowing it to access real-time web data, which helps overcome the static knowledge limitations of language models. This integration enables Crush to interact with a wide array of web tools for tasks like scraping up-to-date information and retrieving structured data from platforms such as Amazon and LinkedIn. The guide outlines the process of installing and configuring Crush, connecting it with Bright Data’s Web MCP, and leveraging these tools to create a powerful AI-driven coding assistant capable of performing complex data retrieval and processing tasks directly from the terminal.