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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
- dofm 1mo agoThis appears to be somewhat like Paseo, specialised for OpenCode under the hood?
- joshgachnang 1mo agoThis looks pretty awesome, like almost exactly what I've been hoping for. Is it possible to run the sessions on a remote server to keep tasks running? I mostly work from my laptop and it's nice to fire off tasks to a remote server (mostly been Cursor Cloud Agents lately) and close my laptop, maybe check in from the app later.
- polski-g 1mo agoYes
- ajcp 1mo agoThis looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now. OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.
- NikolaNovak 1mo ago>> "OpenFatigue being a real concern here." OpenConcern. But at least it's better than Concern.net or iConcern, or even eConcern. Let's not forget Digital Concern, ConcernCloud. And my least favourite, Concern On BlockChain.
- ajcp 1mo agoDamnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!
- rubogubo 1mo ago[dead]
- olaf 1mo agoDon‘t forget Open Closed.
- solarengineer 1mo agoSpecifically about OpenChamber: https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber MIT license.
- guerrilla 1mo agoIncreasingly? It sounds like you've never heard of the Open Group or open architecture. Some of the oldest uses are some of the weakest.
- bicepjai 1mo agoOpenSerious about these OpenStuff claiming to be Open but they are openly not. Looking at you OpenAI
- azuanrb 1mo agoI prefer Paseo https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo, mainly because I have specific preferences for different harness + model combinations. For example, I like using ChatGPT models via pi, and GLM via Claude Code. If you’re happy with OpenCode as the harness, OpenChamber is great. But if you prefer using different harnesses under the hood, Paseo is a better fit. I installed it on my homelab and can access the same sessions from my MacBook or iPhone at any time. Been really nice to use so far.
- trueno 1mo agothis looks prettttttty slick i might dive in later. are people using these things but isolating agents to some sort of containerization individually or do you have like one big dev env ? probably time i get around to sorting a better dev container strategy just to isolate agents here but trying to think of the best way to set this up locally.
- krupkinmaxim 1mo agoThe split I've settled on: git worktrees for parallelism, containers only when I actually need isolation from the host. Worktrees are cheap because they share the object store, so N agents each get their own working dir + branch without N full clones, and teardown is just `git worktree remove`. That solves the common case — two agents stomping each other's uncommitted files on the same repo. What it does NOT give you is isolation of the filesystem outside the repo, the network, or your secrets: a worktree agent can still read ~/.aws or curl anywhere. So I only reach for a container/VM the moment an agent runs untrusted code or I care about blast radius — npm install on a sketchy dep, executing model-written shell, anything that could exfiltrate env vars. Rule of thumb: worktree for "don't let agents collide", container for "don't let an agent hurt the host". Most local setups only need the first, and people tend to reach for heavyweight sandboxing before they need it, then abandon it because it's painful. A cheap middle ground that works locally: worktrees + a per-agent env file and a restricted PATH, so at least secrets aren't ambient without paying full container cost.
- azuanrb 1mo agoIt’s just a personal preference, to be honest, so I wouldn’t overengineer it yet. In my case, I run it in a VM behind Tailscale. The main reason is that I want it to be able to install or use whatever tools it needs without contaminating my main machine. It can expose anything I need over Tailscale. So for me, it’s basically just a cheap, throwaway machine.
- throwatdem12311 1mo ago> development environment First screenshot is of a phone. Yeah I’m never installing a coding agent on my phone.
- aleksiy123 1mo agoWhy not? Both codex and Claude have remote from phone. I’m personally using cli + terminal from phone. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
- shostack 1mo agoAre there any Android remote terminal apps that don't suck on mobile? Termius is painful.
- aleksiy123 1mo agoI’m using Termius. It’s not great but it’s better than anything else I’ve tried.
- kyriakos 1mo agoIt doesn't work with tailscale. Won't prompt you to go through the web sign in.
- asar 1mo agoif you're using herdr, i built a plugin exactly for this reason. its a pwa so requires a proper frontdoor for secured access (tailscale, netbird etc.). https://github.com/AltanS/collie https://github.com/AltanS/collie
- tmzt 1mo agoUsing it now. It seems like I finally found something that works. Having the same agents accessible on the laptop in a large TUI and quickly viewable from my phone has been useful. Tailscale integration works well too. The mobile notification setup was a little clunky and the instructions were confusing, until I found the directory with the shell scripts. It should probably expose a herdr action to generate the keys and include that in the documentation. One thing though: the subagent lines should be clickable like they are in Termux but your actions box absorbs the click and focuses the GUI input line.
- rambojohnson 1mo agoOpenEverything
- tomislavpet 1mo agoI'm using Orca recently for both coding and as a terminal and like it a lot, seems this is very similar, just tied to a single harness?
- epistasis 1mo agoOrca is my main ADE too, but I haven't found any other users! What do you when done with a work tree? Just delete? I wish there was a middle ground of hiding it from the main panel, but keeping it for a week or so just in case I need to refer to something in the transcript...
- vulture916 1mo agoEven though all these "ADE"s are mostly the exact same (Superset, T3, Conductor, Paseo,random Reddit-dude,etc.). I'm liking Orca largely because of the built in browser with ability to select an object(s), write a comment and send it back to the agent. I had built my own solution, but Orca makes it even easier and convenient.
- taoh 1mo agoPaseo has this as well
- reverius42 1mo agoThis also sounds a lot like one of the features of OpenChamber, from TFA
- BlueOrigin50 1mo agoHuge fan of Orca too. You can "sleep" the worktree so that it shuts down the terminals / agents to not consume RAM. Then in the worktree card filter, you can select "hide sleep" Later you can "unhide sleep" and click into the worktree to wake it up if you need it. It will restore all the agents
- moltar 1mo ago
- kburman 1mo agoI wonder what JetBrains is doing. They had such a strong lead, but with the rise of AI, they seem to be heading down the same path as Stack Overflow.
- SpyCoder77 1mo agoYes, I haven't heard as much about them lately as I had in the 2022-23 era.
- Squarex 1mo agoThey have the Air and it's quite nic for agentic coding.
- jasim 1mo agoI've been paying JetBrains in a personal capacity for about 15 years. Almost from the first year of my professional career. I didn't renew this year. I feel so sad and disheartened that a company that produced such brilliant tools have completely lost the plot on AI. They had started work on Fleet, a lightweight VSCode like IDE, before LLMs became big, but abandoned the effort without seeing it through. It could've been a great agentic IDE (all I want is whole file+project view for every conversation, instead of just diff so I can have a better perspective of the codebase). Instead they built multiple confusing tools (might be internal org structure and competition leaking out), and took far too long to adopt SOTA CLI coding agents, and kept charging for it as a separate subscription. I wish they do a whole company rethink on agentic development, but it is going to be tough because the existing enterprise licenses will continue to be the main revenue driver for a few more years, until it all dries up all at once.
- aitchnyu 1mo agoI let my Pycharm sub lapse since I switched to VSCode. Its lighter and better at some static analysis.
- pohl 1mo agoI use IntelliJ at my current gig—and the CoPilot plugin for AI, because it’s what I have access to—and it has become ClaudeCode-esque of late: sub-agents, skills, tool-calling, hooks…and continues to improve. It’s unfortunate how the AI-in-a-sidebar UI kind of hides how sophisticated it has grown, but it’s a glass of ice water in hell in an environment where you can’t easily procure what you want.
- SpyCoder77 1mo agoWhy use this over T3 Code?
- polski-g 1mo agoIt has less bugs than T3 Code.
- Squarex 1mo agoIt's nice but I get such memory leaks that I have to reboot my bacbook after a few hours of using it. Sticking to opencode gui for now.
- 0xbadcafebee 1mo agoSeems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep (supporting so many platforms will add a ton of extra complexity), and on OpenCode SDK only. As a simpler desktop-only multi-platform option, I can highly recommend Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic https://github.com/simion/termic). It just runs existing TUI coding agents (so Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc) and manages them in sandboxed git worktrees. You get a real PTY to manage agent in, lets you see when one is working or has paused, plus a terminal, "changed git files", even in-line-code comments you can feed back to the agent. It's a good design, works well, the main dev is working very quickly on improvements, and they're responsive to issues and PRs.
- epistasis 1mo agoOh, I love the idea of a changes walkthrough. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I still look through all the code and prose that gets committed. In Orca, it took me about half an hour to even find the diff view (hidden behind a panel, activated on the top right) I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: the churn in new dev interfaces it's super exciting. Can't wait to see what next week brings.
- BewareTheYiga 1mo agoThis looks neat. How is this different from Jetbrains Air?
- aleksiy123 1mo agoSticky header with no background seems a bit awkward on mobile. The text overlaps.
- jarym 1mo agoFrom now on I swear if I launch a new product I will call it ClosedXXX
- catlover76 1mo ago[dead]
- Alifatisk 1mo agoLooks interesting, might try it out. I have to ask, did you really need to hijack my scroll behaviour?
- arcanemachiner 1mo agoHad to scroll all the way to the bottom to see that its a wrapper for OpenCode. This actual functionality should be more explicitly stated, and should be described much sooner IMO.
- trueno 1mo agoon the scroll note, the top background had a seizure while i was scrolling down
- dakiol 1mo agoOver 50 npm dependencies (dev and non-dev). Is this really how things are developed in 2026? After all what's happening (cyber security), is any developer out there running this kind of software just like that in their main machines without any concerns?
- trollbridge 1mo agoIt is if someone forgot to prompt their harness "don't pull in unnecessary dependencies".
- vixalien 1mo agoI have been using Opencode desktop, going to try out these other tools too
- KronisLV 1mo agoI really enjoy the sidebar style for organising work, I’m not sure why the OpenCode desktop app moved to browser-like tabs (horizontal ones, though tbh my browsers now have vertical ones ehh).
- ed_mercer 1mo agoSince this page is clearly made with AI, someone deliberately prompted to add scroll hijacking for some reason, despite it being known to be bad UX.
- ashot 1mo agoTry codecast for a better version of this that works across all agent harnesses in one unified way.
- 2001zhaozhao 1mo agoIs saying "XXX: An Agentic Development Environment" already sufficient to get to the front page of HN? I guess no differentiation is even required in this category, huh?
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- nzoschke 1mo agoLooks nice. I have a number of these pieces in a binary I drop first thing on every agent computer: https://github.com/housecat-inc/scratch https://github.com/housecat-inc/scratch Chat to code with an inspector to point at specific DOM sections, review diffs on the box, hand off to mobile, etc. Makes me wonder where all this will end up. Or DIY win with hyper-personalized tools? Will one vendor become the center of gravity similar to VSCode in previous generation? Will there be a cottage industry of more opinionated tools?
- zmmmmm 1mo agoIt's funny / ironic how the whole agentic development boom has taken off in terminal environments, but now the orchestration / IDE layer seems to be all Electron / GUI apps. Any suggestions for terminal UI versions of something like this?
- TSiege 1mo agoIt feels a bit like herdr which is like tmux meets agent management
- pjmlp 1mo agoThere is hardly any terminal environments when doing SaaS, iPaaS. Thankfully most of them can be proper Web with my already installed browser, or IDE based. VSCode plugins get a discount, because I cannot avoid it in some cases.
- mandeepj 1mo agois agent orchestration somewhere in your backlog?
- tandr 1mo agoSomehow reminds me of JetBrain's new Air [1] platform (still in beta I think) - make multiple agents working, monitoring, basic code and diff viewing. [1] https://air.dev/ https://air.dev/
- resonious 1mo agoNot surprised at all but there seems to be tons of these kinds of tools and I'm having a hard time picking one. Is there a nice list somewhere? I guess I can ask chatgpt... Honestly right now I do a lot of development from my phone - I don't have the time to pull out my laptop very much. Right now I use hermes agent and just chat with it on Slack. But sometimes I wish I had easier access to more advanced features, and Slack isn't the best UI for this stuff. So I want to use something like this but am having analysis paralysis.
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- mgw 1mo agoThis field is super crowded, but we are still working on our own ADE called Podium and think we have something unique. Features we are proud of are one click onboarding of new VPSs into the agent fleet. Agent orchestration across different machines and harnesses. As an example, a Codex coordinator on one machine can run a Grok implementer subagent on another machine and they can talk to each other. It's not really ready for public consumption yet, but it's been our exclusive daily driver for the past month. We'd be happy for people to test drive it and provide feeback regardless: https://github.com/madeinorbit/podium https://github.com/madeinorbit/podium
- myaccountonhn 1mo agoPaid an artist for the artwork rather than have it AI generated peaked my interest. Makes it feel like actual effort went into this. :)
- mirashii 1mo agoJust FYI, it’s “piqued my interest”
- myaccountonhn 1mo agoYou're right, cheers
- pjmlp 1mo ago"Desktop app", aka packaged Web.