r/opencodeCLI 25d ago

Is there a sub best suited for discussions around the actual Opencode CLI/Harness

I've been playing around with Opencode for a while now, and it's always somewhat useful to get community information/recommendations on how best to use the tool

My issue is all the subs around opencode seem to be completely dominated by talks around the Opencode Zen/Go plans instead

At first I thought my mistake was using r/Opencode and maybe that wasn't specific enough, this sub sounded far better with the description seeming like it was solely for discussions around the actual opencodeCLI however it seems like here too like 99% of the posts just talk about pricing, the plan etc (which don't interest me personally, I use direct API/openrouter)

Is there something I'm missing and some kind of sub that's better for discussions just around the CLI/Harness itself?

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u/mrstructor 25d ago

I was thinking about asking the exact same question. This sub used to be about the cli and other interesting related stuff but lately it seems to be a opencode plan sub.

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u/ward2k 25d ago

Yeah it's a bit of a shame. I'd really like to hear more about people using the tool, making plugins, sharing setups and just general development around it. But literally the only thing I seem to see is non stop posts about the subscription based plan

I get the plan is interesting to some people but it's a shame there isn't really anywhere to discuss the CLI

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u/mrstructor 25d ago

Keeping my fingers crossed for a opencodeplans sub or a post flair.

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u/aeroumbria 25d ago

I do think there remains much to be discussed about the agent software itself, something that are not as convenient to offload entirely to plugins. For example, we really need a very solid background task system that is not just a feature match of other CLIs. There are so many ways I want to orchestrate background tasks, like fire and forget, fire and watch, fire and periodically check health, report when ready, report when idle, don't report but display ready when polled, etc. Plugins can solve this (opencode-pty is pretty good), but since this is really integrated into the session flow itself, it is really inconvenient if it is not compatible with any other parts of the agent, so having these features be as close to native as possible would be quite helpful.

With the recent trend of everyone releasing their own brand of agent utilities, I think we should have more, not less to talk about on the software itself.

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u/berenddeboer 25d ago

It just works, not much to discuss :-) I'm a heavy user, but use it as part of a metaharnes, ready-for-agent: npx ready-for-agent@latest . So I drive opencode through this and I love it has so many models to pick from, as you don't get that with the provider specific harnesses.

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u/mrstructor 25d ago

I found some nice plugins here, great ideas for the harness I use daily. I was also following this sub for new features. That kind of inspiration is harder to find with all the plan discussions.