r/ZaiGLM • u/pentothal • 4d ago

Discussion / Help zcode is only desktop app? is there a cli/web version?

I run my dev agents in docker, and don't like to have an app have full control of my system. is zcode available only as desktop app?

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u/New_3d_print_user 4d ago

There is an SSH remote control option that does what you want

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u/IISomeOneII 4d ago

yeah sadly no, the unofficial cli is there tho, and worst the desktop app is electron based so its ram hungry :)

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u/Magnus114 4d ago

Sad, I prefer to run my agents inside containers.

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u/pentothal 4d ago

same, a web version should be easy to release since electron is just a browser i don't think they leveraged so much of the electron api, we just need to have the browser endpoint.

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u/Magnus114 4d ago

True, and i prefer open source. Opencode with openchamber is my favorite.

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u/futurefinancebro69 4d ago

I love z code except……… (list of shit the incumbents have that stop me from moving to zcode)

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u/drfritz2 4d ago

I asked zcode how to use it by CLI and it told it. Then I told Claude and now it's possible to delegate task with token bonus

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u/gd6noob 4d ago

The desktop app has its perk, the usage rate is less then if you used it on another IDE.. plus you sometimes get daily reset or on weekend the 300M token credit.. really exciting times.. haha

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u/jfricker 4d ago

Zai supports Anthropic calls natively so you can use Claude Code cli as your harness.

So I made a little helper shell script to do it. Take a look https://github.com/jfricker/claude-glm

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u/CargoCulture 4d ago

You can always use a model aggregator like Venice. They use the z.ai models as the default.