I've been using OpenCode V2 since it first appeared on the website, and I can only repeat the positive views on usability, the client/server model and self-awareness/ability to edit it's config and write plugins.

I'd like to mention two other impressive things about OpenCode.

First, their issue tracker on GitHub works really well. They have the OpenCode GitHub App connected, and for any bug report it reads the issue, tests on the mentioned version and latest dev branch, and comments the findings along with a reproduction script. For TUI Bugs it even records a video. And all that in less than two minutes, usually.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+st...

Another thing they are working on is opentunnel, where you can tunnel services to https on <random>.opentunnel.xyz and its subdomains. What's notable is that the subdomain is persistent and unique to you, and a wildcard ssl cert is actually generated on your machine, so the platform cannot see the traffic. Their primary use case seems to be making the OpenCode Server usable from anywhere, but it can do much more with their cli:

https://opentunnel.xyz/

It's good.

Many of the annoyances from V1 are gone. Skills and plugins reload automatically (finally). Tasks can be backgrounded (though I think this doesn't happen automatically yet). There's a built-in skill for editing the configuration (finally I can retire mine). The front-end got some love. Apparently they re-architected the loop around Effect. Sub-sessions can be communicated with better. Configuration is loaded from the folder the session is created in rather than where the server was started.

In general, this update largely takes OpenCode into the current age features-wise and is a good overhaul quality-wise. Just in time to stop my early switching away efforts, which would've been a pain because I know few other harnesses with such a strong server/client model.

Does it still have rediculous system prompt alignment preventing use on red teams?

Feels like more of the same, although I can't say because this article wasn't very readable so I couldn't bring myself to reading it.

A list of big new features and changes would have been nicer.

I hope they fixed the long delays to opening OpenCode I have been experiencing, and the huge database of old chats I don't care about anymore.

It's my daily driver - very easy to customize. Added a pretty solid vim plugin for it and a few more really useful plugins. Here are my dotfiles https://github.com/dkarter/dotfiles

Native apps connecting to the OpenCode server is a great way to run sessions on remote hosts!

I wish Claude Code would adopt the same model. The desktop app deploys a separate engine that restarts and clobbers long-running sessions upon reconnect (Remote Control is their recommended solution but requires a Claude.ai account).

I’ve been vibe coding a native macOS Claude Code app that spawns a server that wraps Claude Code on remote hosts, but the UX and features are always lagging behind.

I wish they’d invest more time in performance improvements over code mods. I recently switched to pi which uses an order of magnitude less RAM (hundreds vs dozens) and noticeably less CPU on my machine… OpenCode is really nice but it’s about as heavy as antigravity and is substandard in features…

Their installer (curl | sh) was taking so long yesterday for me.

It turns out it's incredibly slow... because of the progress bar rendering. This is insane. The installer took 6 minutes to reach 10%:

curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/v2/install | bash

Managed to fix it by running this instead:

curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/v2/install | bash 2>&1 | cat

Took me a little while to figure out this was a llm harness for coding (also called an agent, I suppose, but that term seems overloaded and ambiguous to me)

There are many of these available, alongside the provider ones.

Are there any benchmarks which help me decide which ones I should try over the standard codex/claude?

With websites i went back to 90s styles. Hyper dense in information. Anything clickable is a link. A button is for Write actions.

Interactive element are distinct from text.

If webpage page is an interactive canvas , make the canvas the main thing ad text as support.

If you start mixing the two idk..

Wait, but OpenCode got renamed to Crush and the original dev went on to that new project. Where did this come from? Is this a fork? Who is behind it?

I love opencode, but not this website. so difficult to use.

My notebook took up flight and launched itself through the window and died trying to render this site.

I've been using OpenCode 2.0 indirectly via OpenChamber 2.0 and I've been very happy with it.

Once I got past the initial hurdle of having to upgrade my server and clients all at once, everything has been smooth sailing.

I don't see a "performance" section. Should be the first one they mention.

Last time I tried OpenCode was on a tiny VPS which stopped responding when OpenCode tried to eat over 2GB of RAM in launch.

Interesting and I'll definitely give this a try, the client/server and plugin system do look very powerful.

However, I've been using OMP in combination with Tern (the terminal) lately and it's an incredibly smooth operation. It's hard to find a decent terminal on Windows (corporate device) but this is the best I've found so far.

it feels like a clear improvement across the board but a heads up: i got bitten by upgrading - since all tool calls now go through the background process, the sandbox that i use to wrap the TUI process quietly became useless. took me a day or two to realize that web fetches, etc. which should have been blocked were succeeding.

Based on this post, it sounds like a ton of great improvements.

I've only used OpenCode a bit, but I found it was sufficient for the workloads I was throwing at it. It wasn't quite enough to beat out Codex or Claude Code as my go-to choice, though. Perhaps I'll give this version a shot and see if they've gotten it over the hump.

Is there a way to buy tokens with a good model that makes OpenCode near as cheap as Claude Code with a Claude Pro subscription?

For personal projects, Claude Pro seems to give me a lot of tokens to use with Claude Code, and from experiments using other models with Claude Code (e.g. via Vercel) always seems way more expensive.

It's a big improvement over the previous version. Currently, the Codex TUI has constant display issues for me, the most prevalent being random deviations of light/dark characters. So far no such issue in OpenCode. Since it's model agnostic, this might become my daily driver.

their client server model is a fantastic idea and the core reason i started building https://wingman.actor a year ago.

unfortunately making a great harness is tricky and i often just steal with things i like from ocv2 and pi.

been using ocv2 as my daily driver for a while and had very little complaints. its a great product from a great team.

Is this related to https://opencode.ai/?

Nice work!

Are there any recommended sandbox patterns to use? Custom linux users or bubblewrap and managing openbao is getting to be a lot to manage each harness by themselves!

I had to update because the previous OpenCode 2.0.3 I had installed stopped working suddenly. I love the idea behind OpenCode but compared to managing Claude and Codex, it's such a pain and requires continuous debugging or managing.

From my limited testing, oc2.0 doesn't support sock5 proxy in HTTPS_PROXY, while v1 supports.

If workspaces had a way of managing separate Go subscriptions for team members, a large chunk of my org would jump in. DS and GLM are solid for a lot of tasks.

"From the beginning OpenCode adopted a client/server model."

+1 for knowing when to use a slash, not a hyphen.

I enjoy this program, and 2.0 is a great improvement.

Is there azure login capability, for az login? We are 100+ devs and claude code has this built in by default where we can host our own models in Azure Foundry. Devs don't need any keys since they can just use az login and it just works.

The background task / subagent feature and the ability to specify a model when starting a subagent are so far my favorite improvements. Small things but make huge QoL difference in everyday development.

For me the distinguishing feature of OpenCode is the web ui/desktop app. I’m using OpenCode because it’s the only open-source agent-harness I’ve tried that runs outside of a TUI. I like terminals but not TUIs and especially not for prose-based interactions like prompting.

But that’s a shallow moat, and the rest of the features here are not particularly interesting to me. I don’t have a use for plugins or a model-server proxy (I can connect other tools directly to the model provider).

Otherwise called OpenMemoryLeak, it eats memory like a piece of cake.

I basically only have eyes for Claude code. Sell me on this?

tried opencode for the first time to use the $200 in api credits that come with claude max but can't be used in claude code. it's great. the free nemotron 3 model is even decent, i love seeing agentic coding accessible to students and hobbiests and folks that can't drop $200/mo.

i used the bonus anthropic credits to get ornith 1.5 35b q8 running on a jetson. it's no opus 5, but it's usable for real coding and sys admin work, and works great in opencode. at least as good as sonnet 4. 5 token/sec is a little painful though.

they deprecated the old layout which I very much preferred in open code desktop. I'm never in a rush so I'll wait for the early adopters to vouch for this release.

There's this amazing three letter harness that had all those features and more for many, many months already, but many aren't ready for that conversation

I had no clue you have to scroll down.

Did anyone find out what numbers trigger something on that counter box on the left?

The site took a minute to load in completely and when I scrolled to the bottom I couldn't read the SDK text, it was literally cut off, kinda resembling the current state of coding very accurately lmao

I'm a Vim user and I actually like the web interface of AI better than the TUIs, which is weird perhaps.

OpenCode is a beast. Does it still try to take a disk snapshot of my working directory, even when it contains hundreds of millions of files? Does it still eat all of my memory? Does it still have a super-gigantic system prompt that wastes a solid percentage of my context window before I've even begun?

I switched to pi some months ago, and I have no complaints. It just does what it says, with no shenanigans. They updated the rendering approach recently so scrollback is nice and smooth now.

What in the hell is wrong with this page? Whole blocks of content disappear and reappear on my phone as I scroll. Eventually the page just starts force reloading. It’s a blog post! What could possibly require … whatever this is?

Is it still super bloated?

Same OpenCode team who ignore bug reports, don't respond on their discord, don't have modern CI/CD test suites (often shipping regressions), don't have bots to triage bug reports or PRs, and have what might be the worst open model subscription service available today.

OpenCode users: switching to Pi takes about 5 minutes, and customizing it to work just like OpenCode takes another 30 minutes. Better design, better devs, better community.

ah man, I wanted this domain but I'm pleased to see it's at least being put to use instead of squatted

This game is quite interestingly fun despite how basic it is.

having a daemon PID helps for web gui, but may bite in unexpected ways under extensive parallization.

What the heck is this website, it completely locks up the tab it's in for 15 seconds and none of the text shows up at all until it finishes.

Goes to check the repo out

> TypeScript

Considering the whole thing is LLM produced I would like an explicit answer as to why C++ or Rust weren't used to write the project in.

2.0 is a big disappointment so far.

Several basic things don't work, like hiding the sidebar.

With 3.2k open GitHub issues there's no point reporting anything.

I've been getting good results from OpenCode. Has anyone been able to get it to work with local models though? It doesn't seem to want to play nice with Ollama.

Everyone copies https//maki.sh. I've been the first!

OC is all right -- it's my daily driver -- but it could be better. I'd like a harness to let me customize the GUI, not just add MCPs and plugins. For example, I'd like add buttons to merge a PR, and show indicators for CI. Claude Code does a lot of this out of the box. Give me UI building blocks (buttons, labels, etc.) and wire them with my own functions. Could Code Mode enable this?

The built-in browser is a most welcome feature.

PS(A): Opencode Go is a great deal and now has a $40 plan.

I was annoyed that it takes just as much ram if not more than 1.0

These guys stole money from me. It amounts to like 10 US or something, so not significant, but still...

Their models have pricing published in their docs, like any other LLM provider. I measured the tokens I consumed, did the math, and it was always off, in their favor. One model (GPT Luna) was about 2x as expensive as advertised.

I joined their Discord, which is apparently how you get support from them. I filed a bug and someone from their team replied, we verified the data, and he said that something was indeed off and that he'd escalate it. Then silence. After 2–3 weeks, I followed up and was now ignored.

As I said, the amount isn't material to me, but if they do this a million times, they could make some decent money out of it. No idea if it's on purpose, I'll leave that to the reader to speculate.

Overall, their complete lack of interest after acknowledging the "bug" left a really bad taste in my mouth, so I decided to leave.

> We've built a minimal JavaScript interpreter

Huh?

Bros - that opening disk transfer interaction is peak awesomeness. I copied about 4 files and did not want to stop...Id sit there all day and do all of them just to see what happens in the end...perhaps later this weekend.

I really hope we don't get a slew of WebGL-intensive sites.