alt Hacker NewsWhat basic features are missing from agy? I've been using it and cli-cc + web-cc for months (among a few other random harnesses to test here and there) and they all seem roughly comparable to me.
I actually just cancelled Ultra also because I couldn't subscribe to a YouTube Family plan while I had it active (Google... :[) but trying to use Codex as a replacement while I testdrive Astra makes me yearn for agy again.
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>I couldn't subscribe to a YouTube Family plan while I had it active
Luckily for me both expired yesterday and I was able to subscribe back again (first Youtube family and then Google AI plan).
Emacs integration over ACP.
They've got Zed, VSCode, Jetbrains... But no Emacs or NeoVIM
I have used it for little more than 6 hours or so in total but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have compaction?
Why use Codex CLI if you can use the ChatGPT Linux app (which is a Codex GUI in all but name). Personally I weirdly got used to the terrible TUI stuff.
I use a variety of models for various subagents. I don't want to change my harness every time I change models, or be beholden to companies for something the open source community can handle better.
IF you havent written your own harness - you would not understand what you can do when you're writing your own harness . the current set of harnesses - all of them are crap tier. The only clue i can give you - it's not in the model providers interest to have token efficiency - but when you are coding the harness yourself you can shoot for that .
In today's world - and idea stated stated is an idea stolen .
Sorry for the delay, I didn't want to drop a glib half answer on you. Using agy is like going back in time. It's better than Gemini CLI was, but that's a really low bar.
I also had that weird Youtube problem. I had to go without it for several days because signing up for Ultra hijacks your YouTube account for no reason.
1) Try to integrate agy into a workflow. It can't do standard I/O like: tail -200 app.log | claude -p "Find the problem"
2) Hard iteration limits. Preventing runaways is good. Preventing me from looping on purpose is anti-user. See also number 7.
3) Not open source so I can't fix any of these problems.
4) No skills. In 2026. Yikes.
5) No persistent memory (see Claudes auto memory)
6) No sub-agents or orchestration of any type really.
7) Weird hard coded limits and constant API errors on everything (scaling problems?)
8) No /loop command
9) /btw is weird and ephemeral. No way to merge it back to the conversation.
10) Unstable in general.
11) No way to control it via API.
I could keep going on. I would suggest taking a class on Claude Code or Codex then using it for a few months. Swapping is always painful, but it's so worth it. Then if you want try to go back to agy. Don't worry, agy won't have changed much. It improves at a snails pace.
> I actually just cancelled Ultra also because I couldn't subscribe to a YouTube Family plan while I had it active (Google... :[)
This sort of thing alarms me. Having a $bigcorp account becomes a ""social credit"" system where they can ban you from all your personal stuff if they decide that you (or your agents!) are doing stuff they don't like.