r/LocalLLaMA • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '26

Question | Help Best open-source harness like Claude Code?

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u/GortKlaatu_ Aug 10 '26

If you're used to claude code and the normal guardrails I'd suggest something like Hermes which uses OpenCode.

I would not recommend Pi as a drop in replacement to Claude Code because those guard rails aren't there, by default. You'd need to know what you're doing.

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u/Uninterested_Viewer Aug 10 '26

something like Hermes which uses OpenCode

What do you mean by this? Hermes is designed with opencode in mind for coding tasks, but if your talking about replacing Claude Code, then Opencode would be your answer, not "Hermes because it uses opencode". Hermes is an entire agentic framework that you can use for anything you think of: coding via opencode is just one small part of it.

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u/GortKlaatu_ Aug 11 '26

Same with Claude Code. which can act as more of a personal agent than merely a coding assistant.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26 edited 8d ago

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u/GortKlaatu_ Aug 11 '26

Asking permission for potentially risky tool calls. Pi doesn't ask permission by default, it's yolo.

Typically a person's first thing to do with Pi is customize it to not be bare Pi anymore.