This is a coding agent implementation I am working on, which delivers what this promises (at least on the "lean" part), except it's actually fully open source, and even more lean (few MBs of runtime memory usage).
MIT-licensed, written in C, multi-provider / multi-model, minimalist approach to system prompt and tools (think kinda like pi, but with a bit more "batteries included", like subagents and background tasks out of the box), polished presentation, inspectable (usable transcript view), etc.
Also, security aside, engineers want the freedom to modify and experiment with the tools we rely on.
Tools like this are too important to be closed. Do you want to be Internet Explorer or Firefox?
How do you think the backdoor situation would have been resolved if xz hadn't been open-source?