OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

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ajcp•about 4 hours ago

This 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•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours ago

Damnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!

bicepjai•10 minutes ago

OpenSerious about these OpenStuff claiming to be Open but they are openly not. Looking at you OpenAI

solarengineer•about 2 hours ago

Specifically about OpenChamber: https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber

MIT license.

guerrilla•about 1 hour ago

Increasingly? It sounds like you've never heard of the Open Group or open architecture. Some of the oldest uses are some of the weakest.

olaf•about 3 hours ago

Don‘t forget Open Closed.

arcanemachiner•about 2 hours ago

Had 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•about 2 hours ago

on the scroll note, the top background had a seizure while i was scrolling down

azuanrb•about 4 hours ago

I prefer 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•about 2 hours ago

this 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.

azuanrb•about 1 hour ago

It’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.

dakiol•about 2 hours ago

Over 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?

tomislavpet•about 3 hours ago

I'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•about 3 hours ago

Orca 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•about 1 hour ago

Even 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.

moltar•about 2 hours ago

Huge fan of Orca. Been using it for a month. Plan to setup a proper remote env this week.

joshgachnang•about 4 hours ago

This 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•about 4 hours ago

Yes

Squarex•about 3 hours ago

It'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.

kburman•about 3 hours ago

I 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.

jasim•about 3 hours ago

I'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.

pohl•about 2 hours ago

I 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•about 3 hours ago

Yes, I haven't heard as much about them lately as I had in the 2022-23 era.

aitchnyu•about 3 hours ago

I let my Pycharm sub lapse since I switched to VSCode. Its lighter and better at some static analysis.

Squarex•about 3 hours ago

They have the Air and it's quite nic for agentic coding.

vixalien•about 1 hour ago

I have been using Opencode desktop, going to try out these other tools too

throwatdem12311•about 3 hours ago

> development environment

First screenshot is of a phone.

Yeah I’m never installing a coding agent on my phone.

aleksiy123•about 2 hours ago

Why 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.

throwatdem12311•24 minutes ago

Because I’m not putting work in my pocket.

shostack•about 2 hours ago

Are there any Android remote terminal apps that don't suck on mobile? Termius is painful.

aleksiy123•about 1 hour ago

I’m using Termius.

It’s not great but it’s better than anything else I’ve tried.

marginalia_nu•about 2 hours ago

Tiny screen that can barely show any information and the awkward miniature keyboard that's slow to use and gives no feedback, it's a pretty awful way to do anything.

milkshakes•39 minutes ago

lately, i like to try to spend the morning talking through and framing up a few very detailed initiatives for parallel efforts that each spawn and orchestrate their own tasks, then feed them to /goals and go for a nice walk in the park, get some groceries, check in on the orchestrators and spawned tasks along the way, steer them from the phone.

so far it's been working pretty well for me in most cases, but not always. having a few parallel efforts in motion means that even if one goes off the rails, i can pause it and still make progress on the others, then fix it up when i get home.

xienze•about 2 hours ago

You can also use it as a plain old chat client. I prefer it over OpenWebui because I can actually carry over my OpenCode configuration, which has specialized subagent definitions (for example, the "research" agent fires off a bunch of "web search" agents that use a cheap model to fetch and summarize, and the more capable "research" agent pulls it all together, decides if more search effort is necessary, etc.). So I can VPN into my home network and boom, self-hosted chat interface that's more capable than what you can (easily) do in OpenWebui.

dofm•about 4 hours ago

This appears to be somewhat like Paseo, specialised for OpenCode under the hood?

aleksiy123•about 2 hours ago

Sticky header with no background seems a bit awkward on mobile. The text overlaps.

rambojohnson•about 3 hours ago

OpenEverything

epistasis•about 3 hours ago

Oh, 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•about 2 hours ago

This looks neat. How is this different from Jetbrains Air?

0xbadcafebee•about 3 hours ago

Seems 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). 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.

SpyCoder77•about 3 hours ago

Why use this over T3 Code?

Alifatisk•about 2 hours ago

Looks interesting, might try it out. I have to ask, did you really need to hijack my scroll behaviour?

jarym•about 2 hours ago

From now on I swear if I launch a new product I will call it ClosedXXX