opencode VS crush

Dax, the creator of OpenCode — an open-source coding agent, of all the people one might expect to disagree — put the case for hand-coding cleanly in a recent interview about Spec-Driven Development:

Pipa is our agent for studio operations at Lunch Pail Labs. She lives in Slack, is powered by E2B sandboxes, and uses OpenCode for the harness.

One reason I liked OpenSpec more than others, such as Kiro and SpecKit, is that OpenSpec is highly portable between coding assistants, codebases and stages of development. I've plugged OpenSpec into all sorts of projects, from infrastructure to Python libraries. I also work on diverse codebases, with a variety of AI friends that OpenSpec supports: OpenCode, Codex and Claude Code.

Beyond the big names, I would also keep an eye on OpenCode and T3 Code. OpenCode is a solid open-source, terminal-first option if you want a model-agnostic agent and bring your own provider setup. T3 Code is interesting for the opposite reason: it gives you an open-source GUI on top of the agents you may already pay for, like Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, or Cursor.

Brought to you by the infamous creator of OpenCode, who will exfiltrate all your data, then feign ignorance:

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

Thanks for the recommendation, I took a look and maybe you can answer a few questions that I couldn't find a clear answer when doing some quick searching.

Regarding local models, can it use them? I found this discussion:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/discussions/775

I didn't appreciate the meow maintainer's attitude converting it into a discussion and ignoring the issue even to this day.

"It does have internal telemetry and such (including updating its list of external models it can use) that can be turned off in the crush.json configuration file."

Is there a page or guide which explains the telemetry and any internet connected settings?

Forgot to add, I use Linux.

We just launched this: https://charm.land/blog/crush-and-docker-mcp/

Also, non-interactive support, useful for some workflows:

* https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/tag/v0.48.0

Charm Crush – TUI coding agent

See https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/1783

I wouldn’t be surprised if Anthropic filed a similar request against OpenCode, and follows it up with a takedown eventually

There are many open source alternatives to claude code. Crush[0] is one, Clai[1] another, opencode[3] a third.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush

crush and gemini-cli to evaluate the design of our cli

For others like me who did not know about Crush:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176

Aider hurt my head it did not seem... good. Sorry to say.

If you want open source "crush" and want to target something over an API https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush is excellent

But you should try Claude Code or Codex just to understand them. Can always run them in a container or VM if you fear their idiocy (and it's not a bad idea to fear it)

Like I said sibling, it's not the right modality. Others agree. I'm a good typer and good at writing, so it doesn't bug me too much, but it does too much without asking or working through it. Sometimes this is brilliant. Other times it's like.. c'mon guy, what did you do over there? What Balrog have I disturbed?