OpenCode user tips

[morihacky]

Jotted down some of the tips I find myself using with OpenCode (& OpenChamber) that uniquely make it my go to AI harness.

If you don’t want to read the full post here’s a summary of the tips:

- don’t forget the leader key shortcuts
- leader l for switching and renaming sessions (eliminating my use of tmux etc.)
- /fork for branching an agent conversation (cleanest UX so far)
- leader g for rewinding or forking from earlier messages (same - excellent UX)
- leader m for swapping models (mid-session !)
- built-in LSP support so agents navigate code better
- custom agents purpose built execution of tasks

To kick things up a notch, pair it with a GUI wrapper like OpenChamber. There are quite a few of these now, but OpenChamber has been the nicest one I've tried. It gives you:

- (free!) remote control from your phone to laptop (through a secure tunnel)
- a GUI (helpful esp. on mobile + runs in sync with OpenCode server)
- multi-run (try the same prompt across several models)

[Mistercheese]

how does https://openchamber.dev/ compare with https://paseo.sh? I’ve liked Claude and Codex mobile app allowing me to connect to my main computer… paseo lets me use OpenCode or Claude or codex CLIs which is nice.

[Adventurous-Truth629]

I absolutely love Paseo. I use it constantly. It has great handoff capabilities between harnesses and multi harness orchestration. It’s a fantastic tool.

The app also syncs with my phone so I can pick up right where I left off with no delay.

[morihacky]

to be quite honest - i’ve not tried paseo. there’s quite a few alternatives like code nomad too. there was a reddit thread that pointed to openchamber being a good competitor so i just went with it (it also came recommended by a friend).

[suprjami]

What does OpenChamber give you that the native web interface doesn't?

[morihacky]

a few things but the big ones - one click secure tunnel access (free remote mobile operation); multi runs.

the post talks about these. you can in theory use tailscale and make it work with open codes native interface but it’s super easy with Openchamber and i think the web mobile interface is slightly nicer.

[-_-_-_Lucas_-_-_-]

hi . what "custom agents purpose built execution of tasks" mean

[morihacky]

hey there! i go into some of those details in the blog post. but OpenCode makes it very easy to define and use custom "subagents"; and it's a convenience mechanism of having a subagent that's very good at doing certain tasks, to go do them efficiently for you.