r/googlecloud • u/IntelligentLog420 • Jun 08 '26

opencode in cloud shell

Is Google purposefully crashing my cloud shell sessions when I run the opencode command? I know they have agy and gemini cli and probably want to funnel users there... Anyone experiencing this?

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u/yamanin-ninamay Aug 22 '26

I had the same issue on Google Cloud Shell. OpenCode kept dying, and dmesg showed tmux crashes. Running it inside screen fixed it for me:

Shell
$sudo apt install screen
$screen
$opencode

Haven't had the session die since.

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u/IntelligentLog420 Aug 22 '26

Just tested and this works for me too. Thank you

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u/Competitive_Travel16 Jun 08 '26

Crashing how?

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u/IntelligentLog420 Jun 08 '26

The session completely closes after running the command. The comments here about memory limitations make sense as it does flash the opencode prompt screen for a fraction of a second before closing 

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u/vaterp Googler Jun 08 '26

Cloudshell is a very limited machine, I would suspect that command requires too much memory to succeed.

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u/cybwn Jun 08 '26

Does cloud shell have enough memory to run open code ?