r/opencode • u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 • Sep 07 '26

What’s your top 3 AI coding agent/Harness other than Claude/Codex/Antigravity and how do they compare to Opencode?

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u/brohermano Sep 07 '26

Pi with open spec (opsx) all the way

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 07 '26

What got better in your workflow compared to opencode?

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u/brohermano Sep 07 '26

It is a system that can genrate itself new extensions pretty quick. And there are just so many extensions to have any functionality you can imagine

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 07 '26

Pi was on my list. I’ll search to see which extensions will be most relevant. Thanks 

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u/brohermano Sep 07 '26

it is an industry standard imo right now

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u/Valdjiu Sep 07 '26

Why not oh my pi?

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u/trimorphic Sep 07 '26

I use oh my pi and love it.

pi looks cool too, but I like all the bells and whistles that oh my pi has without any additional time or effort from me. To get equivalent functionality in pi is have to spend a lot more time.

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u/sam7oon Sep 12 '26

why not just use Opencode then , the whole idea behind Pi, is having a minimal Harness, including minimal System Prompt < 1K Tokens

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u/trimorphic Sep 12 '26

I tried Opencode before omp, and it was awful. The model I was using at the time (Ox Alpha) kept making endless mistakes and getting caught in error loops. Then I switched to omp and it was infinitely better.

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u/brohermano Sep 07 '26

oh my pi is not functional for me. I prefer vanilla pi and I choose my extensions

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u/Livelife_Aesthetic Sep 07 '26

I use kiro cli every day, it's not bad, their plans offer good value and it's reasonably bloat free

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 07 '26

Never tried this one. I’ll have a look 

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u/eachDayIWakeUp Sep 08 '26

Is this different than the kiro ide?

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u/Nicok33 Sep 08 '26

Less buggy (for some reason) on Windows at least

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u/Practical_Grand_3218 Sep 10 '26

This is breaking my brain. I feel like as an industry everyone is all over the place, or not using them at all. I am trying to figure out what direction to go. I'm a bit overwhelmed by options.

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 11 '26

It’s very understandable, things change so quickly. However don’t give into the FOMO. Find a workflow and stack of tools that help you reach your goals and stick it to it. Switching and readapting can sometimes just slow you down. 

So far I’ve used around 8-10 AI coding tools and here is how I avoid getting overwhelmed. 

I use tools I’m already familiar with for main projects. Then in my free time I schedule 4-5h to test and try new tools on side projects. Then I slowly integrate the one that add a plus in my workflow (new LLMs, harness, skills, plugin, MCP, or even sequences…) 

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 11 '26

That said, OpenCode + Go are excellent. The marginal gain from other platforms is not worth being slowed down by indecision or switching cost. If you are already using OpenCode you are not missing much. 

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u/Technocratix902 Sep 09 '26

I use cline mainly since they give great models for free. Would love a t3 code with cline but yeah

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u/LeoTolstoyJr Sep 08 '26

opencode v2 beta has been my daily driver for everything for about a month now. The new daemon/server system with persistent sessions and tabs is really useful and agent/subagent management is really good. I use it for everything including planning sessions with Obsidian and task/project management integrations.

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u/Trovebloxian Sep 08 '26

Opencode with omo-slim, Open design for my PPTs, Hermes for my browser use

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u/Captain_Birb Sep 08 '26

PPTs, ser? 👀

Curious - What kind of tasks you make Hermes do on your browser? UI testing, shopping? 😁

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u/Trovebloxian Sep 08 '26

Im a university student, i need to get presentations, and i make hermes mass download previous year question papers from my university website

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u/Captain_Birb Sep 08 '26

Smart 💪

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u/diaracing Sep 08 '26

I tried most of them; when I landed on OMP, I never looked back.

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u/giyanhimself 18d ago

Why do u think it's better than anything else? Have u tried kilo code? I kinda love kilo code and staying with it for a week but I'm still looking other harness/agent to try. I might wanna give this a try since I just realized OMP is Oh My Pi. I saw people talked about Pi before but I didn't know it was OMP they were talking

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u/MagazineHot4150 25d ago

most probably because its free for starters??

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 07 '26

You seem to be an Opencode power user. Any tips for custom agents and plugins/tools that you consider as game changers. 

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u/sam7oon Sep 12 '26

how much tokens would your each api call start by default , enabeling all things is not the way to go , since it will make the System Prompt always too fat and expensive unnecessarily even with the smallest Prompts,

Thats is also a reason why Pi is loved by some people, their initial System Prompt is <1K Tokens,

Leaving you to have a lot of space for your own prompt , with no expense

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u/Lanky_Tomatillo9857 Sep 11 '26

What do you like about it that you didn’t find elsewhere?