What is Shelley?

Our coding agent

Shelley is a coding agent. It is web-based, works on mobile, and, when you
start an `exe.dev` VM with the default `exeuntu` image, it is running on port
9999, and you can access it securely at `https://vmname.shelley.exe.xyz/`.

You can ask Shelley to install software (e.g., run a Marimo notebook on port
8000), build a web site, browse the web, and anything in between. That said,
you don't have to use Shelley if you don't want to. Other coding agents run
just fine on `exe.dev` VMs and some are pre-installed on our default image.
If you want, disable it with `sudo systemctl disable --now shelley.service`.

By default, Shelley uses the [LLM integration](/docs/integrations-llm), backed
by the [LLM Gateway](/docs/shelley/llm-gateway), so you don't need to
configure any API keys. You can "bring your own key" to Shelley, and use it
with your favorite provider.

## Shelley's Name

Shelley is so named because the main tool it uses is the shell, and I like
putting "-ey" at the end of words. It is also named after Percy Bysshe Shelley,
with an appropriately ironic nod at
"[Ozymandias](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias)."
Shelley is a computer program, and, it's an it.