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opencode is an open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal as a TUI. Built by the terminal.shop team, it ships with two agents (build for full access, plan for read-only) and works with Claude, OpenAI, Google, or local models. MIT licensed, no provider lock-in.
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May 11, 2026opencode
158.1k ★opencode is an open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal as a TUI.
hermes-agent
143.0k ★Hermes is Nous Research's open-source autonomous agent.
Understand-Anything
14.1k ★Understand-Anything turns an undocumented, tangled codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can actually explore.
cc-switch
66.4k ★Cc-switch wraps them into a single Tauri-based GUI.
career-ops
44.0k ★Career-Ops turns Claude Code into a full job search command center.
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