What the person above is suggesting:

* https://pi.dev/

* https://omp.sh/

(no personal opinions of either, links might be useful)

I think that OpenCode is nice, their CLI version is enjoyable and their desktop/web version is okay:

* https://opencode.ai/

I also quite like driving OpenCode through something like Kepler / Paseo and tools like that (with those I can still use my Anthropic Condition by Claude Code being treated similarly - as something that gets tasks dispatched to it, while the GUI I see is Kepler / Paseo).

On the desktop side, ZCode was surprisingly usable for something that came out of nowhere (I wasn't aware of it at all before trying out the GLM Coding Plan): https://zcode.z.ai/en

T3 Code has been amazing. Completely free. Really impressed with the desktop app and the mobile app experience and the way it works seamlessly has me actually accomplishing tons of stuff while I'm out on mobile that I would otherwise have to wait to come home for. First time in a while I'm actually excited to use a desktop UI instead of the terminal. Blows away the official Claude Code mobile app. I can switch between my Claude and Codex monthly subscriptions in it as well. There's a TestFlight beta SwiftUI mobile version that's so much nicer than the one in the App Store. I'm running the nightly version of the desktop app.

And this is coming from someone that's not particularly a big fan of Theo. T3 Code should get more recognition; people aren't just aware of it yet.

ArtificialAnalysis puts out benchmarks for harnesses now as well, and OpenCode seems to be winning it. https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#coding-ag...

I only found this yesterday, and it inspired me to start testing out OpenCode.

If you like running everything in a VM and using a web browser as your UI, Shelley is very good: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley

It works nicely in the browsers on my tablet and phone, too.

On exe.dev you can ask it to customize itself, and it will automatically rebase your customizations when upgrading to a new release.

It’s not just bloat at this point. I run oMLX and run models locally. using Claude code on the first message dumps 40k of tokens that my laptop takes 5 mins to compute.

I’ve stopped using it completely now.

I think that writing your own harness is a rite of passage now, just like writing your own search engine or database, rolling your own crypto…

Anyways, please try mine!

https://github.com/deepclause/deepclause-sdk

https://github.com/tontinton/maki is tackling the right issues IMO. not sure how they compare with the rest

Piggybacking on this thread to ask my question: What are alternatives that are multiplayer (team oriented) by default? For example, I want my team to see all my sessions easily, vise versa. another way of stating: all the agents are running in a container that that any member of the team can view and interact with.

thank you all! got something to tinker with this weekend

i like to challenge my assumptions and try new tools

I’ve tried a bunch of them, and I seriously do not understand these recommendations. It was a rough road and a steep hill, but right now CC is absolutely the best harness on the market, as for me, whatever top tier model is under the hood (mostly, some of them, like DeepSeek, don’t fit CC at all).