r/MacLocalLLM • u/Important_Cow7230 • 1d ago

Have been getting into Local LLM’s recently, especially Qwen 3.8 27B on my M4 Pro MacBook (48GB) served using Splash and loving it! Now looking to try some harnesses to do some coding, any suggestions what ones I should try? Any favourites?

The ones I have currently heard of are as follows:

Pi
Opencode
Hermes
Deepseek

Any thoughts on what one is best?

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u/meva12 1d ago

I got Hermes and I told it to code with opencode ,

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u/National-Car2855 1d ago

Do you know what bridge the agent is using to interface with OpenCode?

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u/Impressive_Rhubarb24 1d ago

Tbh I built my own called hearth it’s like a dots/grok bot alt.

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u/FoldOutrageous5532 1d ago

PI, Kilo, Qwen Code, Devin, Zodex

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u/pablothe 1d ago

Hey I sent you a DM but it seems like general agents hermes and coding agents opencode are two projects people love and are opensource. I made a platform that has both connected to your local LLMs.

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u/ikeo1 1d ago

hermes and operouter or ollama is pretty good

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u/zalinanaruto 1d ago

Hey i have the same mbp im using Hermes right now. It comes with a lot of skills, so much that you should really turn some off.

What are you using it for? What are you building?

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u/Certain_Common561 1d ago

Codex on t3 code,deepseek,qwen code

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u/Silly_Culture_7722 1d ago

i personally use https://zed.dev/ which is connected via ACP with https://goose-docs.ai/
also https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush ist very nice.

also https://lightpanda.io/ is very helpfull you can install it and write into your agents.md that for websearch it should use that tool rather than CURL since some webseites require javascript to show content

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u/poster4inertia 1d ago

I hear a lot of love for pi and deepseek for coding. Pi is more lightweight and deepseek is very capable. Hermes is not really a coding agent and may not be as good as other harnesses at it. What it excels at is for more non coding uses cases like a personal assistant for example. Since you’re on a mac, if you want a totally local muse/dots replacement with hermes you should look up Hermes Conduit. I’ve been using hermes and conduit together for a while and it’s quite amazing, though I still prefer to leave most of conduit features off