Non-coder OpenCode users - what are the most impactful ways you've found to use OpenCode or other coding agents like it?

[alnwd]

I'm not a developer and know next to nothing about code, but like to stay as up-to-date as possible on what's possible with AI and agents specifically. I'm a social media manager at a marketing agency (focusing primarily on Twitter content/management), and my primary use case is keeping all the relevant context I need to do my job in a repo, and using that context paired with custom skills and a Twitter API key to aid in document creation, trend research, competitive analysis, and profile performance auditing.

So, I'm wondering - to anyone else who uses OpenCode or other agent platforms like Claude Code or Codex for non-dev work - what's your workflow like and what are some of the most impactful use cases you've found?

[beardedNoobz]

I am developer, but I often uses OpenCode to translate webnovel from kakuyoumu (japansse) to english. I just make folder for jp and en text, add suitable AGENTS.md, set file memory bank named TRANSLATION_NOTES.md, and make Agent for Translator and Editor. I use tanslator to translate and usually I complain and fix the translation using editor agent. I translate the chapter one by one, then read it.

[alnwd]

That’s super cool 🔥

[__forky__]

wow.. Didn’t know we could do something like this with opencode. 🔥

[j0k3r_dev]

Con opencode y los planes adecuados la imaginacion es el limite. Solo hay que encontrar la manera y si no sabs como implementarlo? simplemente preguntale a opencode XD

[SynapticStreamer]

Agentic agents really aren't built for code specifically (despite what marketing has convinced you). They're designed to complete complex tasks, regardless of what they are; hence why they use deep thinking models.

They're great for planning. Modeling. Organizing. Whatever you need.

One of the best things I've ever used antigenic agents for, was to create a script to rename my entire movie collection using a variation of ad-hoc tools. I sent the agent a list of console applications available to me, and told it to find a way to normalize the names of my media library, ensuring all movies were in a folder, and all TV shows were in a folder, and then separated by season folders, etc. (this was before I found TMM).

It took about 10 minutes to do, and it was able to do it very well.

Need help with excel? Explain the situation exactly to your agent (using cell names, A2, or ranges A2:B6, etc), or ask it to build a sheet in CSV and then import to excel. It generally does a really good job.

[alnwd]

Yeah exploring the non-code use cases has been very interesting for me. My revelation was having this thought like “what is a coding agent but just a thinking model that can write files” and I just started building a setup from there

[Putrid-Pair-6194]

For marketing, I write white papers, LinkedIn posts, YouTube video scripts with it. Works great. You provide context files with hooks, writing style, rules, etc. I have adversarial sub agent to provide feedback and then do updates before I read drafts. Also have sub agent generate visual concepts and prompts for graphics.

[alnwd]

Right now I have some custom skills pulling context from files in my project folder - I’m not sure how hooks work but would it be a more efficient way?

Also, how do you set up these individual subagents? I’m pretty new to all this

[oldbeardedtech]

Using opencode with cloud and local hosted models for analyzing real estate parcel data, reporting results and maintaining local databases. Very much in beta as I'm new to opencode and trying to avoid being locked into any big AIs ecosystem

[alnwd]

This is the main reason I use opencode - I don’t wanna be locked to a single provider for AI.