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Paseo has been the most feature complete one with claude and open code support with a top notch mobile experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile agent terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}]}, {"label": "Desktop app", "summary": "One commenter calls it the front-runner among desktop Codex- or Claude-style apps and uses it to test open models.", "quotes": [{"id": 793699376, "item_id": 49606211, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606211", "by": "alvins82", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this seems to be front-runner", "excerpt": "Btw in my quest for a good desktop codex/claude like app - https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber - this seems to be front-runner. I pair it with OMP via https://github.com/alvins82/omp-openchamber-server/. 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OpenCode is also fine but more finnicky - if you\u2019re ok with desktop apps, give OpenChamber a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop UI for OpenCode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "OpenCode only", "summary": "It runs on the OpenCode SDK only, so users who want other harnesses may prefer alternatives like Paseo.", "quotes": [{"id": 787753681, "item_id": 49234605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234605", "by": "0xbadcafebee", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep", "excerpt": "Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep (supporting so many platforms will add a ton of extra complexity), and on OpenCode SDK only. 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But I use OpenCode / OpenChamber for personal stuff where I might only get 20 minutes at my computer before I have to go do something else. So the web interface and especially the mobile app get more use from me there. It's kind of wild to be working on a project while walking my dog or washing dishes or som", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile/web agent interface", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 801613904, "item_id": 50100869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100869", "by": "zxspectrum1982", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use OpenChamber as my IDE.", "excerpt": "I use OpenChamber as my IDE. It uses OpenCode behind the scenes. I've not really noticed a difference in OpenCode v1 vs v2 but I guess it's because OpenChamber does a great job dealing with those details.", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE on top of OpenCode", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 801577952, "item_id": 50098622, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098622", "by": "c-hendricks", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Openchamber is a really good OpenCode client.", "excerpt": "Openchamber is a really good OpenCode client. 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When I was first getting started and didn't realize that ollama defaults to incredibly tiny amounts of context, Pi was the only harness that actually worked because the rest of them used ", "context": "", "use_case": "remote access to OpenCode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 793699376, "item_id": 49606211, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606211", "by": "alvins82", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this seems to be front-runner", "excerpt": "Btw in my quest for a good desktop codex/claude like app - https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber - this seems to be front-runner. I pair it with OMP via https://github.com/alvins82/omp-openchamber-server/. 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Paseo has been the most feature complete one with claude and open code support with a top notch mobile experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile agent terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 787812641, "item_id": 49238290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238290", "by": "nzoschke", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Looks nice.", "excerpt": "Looks nice. I have a number of these pieces in a binary I drop first thing on every agent computer: https://github.com/housecat-inc/scratch Chat to code with an inspector to point at specific DOM sections, review diffs on the box, hand off to mobile, etc. Makes me wonder where all this will end up. Or DIY win with hyper-personalized tools? Will one vendor become the center of gravity similar to VSCode in previous gen", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic development environment", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 787753681, "item_id": 49234605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234605", "by": "0xbadcafebee", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep", "excerpt": "Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep (supporting so many platforms will add a ton of extra complexity), and on OpenCode SDK only. As a simpler desktop-only multi-platform option, I can highly recommend Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic). It just runs existing TUI coding agents (so Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc) and manages them in sandboxed git worktr", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic development environment", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 787744897, "item_id": 49234056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234056", "by": "azuanrb", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "compare", "quote": "If you\u2019re happy with OpenCode as the harness, OpenChamber is great.", "excerpt": "I prefer Paseo https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo, mainly because I have specific preferences for different harness + model combinations. For example, I like using ChatGPT models via pi, and GLM via Claude Code. If you\u2019re happy with OpenCode as the harness, OpenChamber is great. But if you prefer using different harnesses under the hood, Paseo is a better fit. I installed it on my homelab and can access the same sessi", "context": "", "use_case": "agent environment", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 781183650, "item_id": 48823978, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823978", "by": "ricardobeat", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you\u2019re ok with desktop apps, give OpenChamber a try", "excerpt": "Crush is pretty nice. It\u2019s become my daily driver for personal projects. They maintain a list of supported providers so most of the time no configuration is needed. OpenCode is also fine but more finnicky - if you\u2019re ok with desktop apps, give OpenChamber a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop UI for OpenCode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?"}]}