Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

Posted by zdgeier 1 day ago

Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents(oak.space)

Oak is a version control system I've been working on designed for agents (https://oak.space). It improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects. With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working. You can work on many tasks in parallel without needing to download everything or fight worktrees. Version control shouldn't waste you or your agents time. It should be fast, creative and fun to make things with agents.

Oak is still early in development. There's no Windows build and missing plenty of features (no CI, no issues, no comments). We still use GitHub Actions for building Oak now, but we've been fully bootstrapped on Oak with no Git backup for several months: https://oak.space/oak/oak.

Blog post: https://oak.space/blog#git-is-forever

Docs: https://oak.space/docs

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huflungdung 22 hours ago|

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jatins 1 day ago||

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sublinear 1 day ago|

Lots of self-promotion, but no concrete comparisons where this tool does a better job than git.

The only thing to go on is this single sentence: "With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working."

> For the first 100 users that subscribe to a paid plan I will send you a personalized e-ink display

I don't understand anyone who feels incentivized by this. Brogrammer 2.0 is weird.

zdgeier 1 day ago||

Check out the homepage! https://oak.space might have what you're looking for. I can answer any questions you have here as well.

dang 1 day ago||

Since this project hasn't appeared on HN before and is obviously of interest to people, I've taken the liberty of turning your post into a Show HN (which is the convention for sharing your work on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). I used the text from your blog post that explains what the project actually is - this is the bit we need to lead with, to stanch all the "I can't tell what this is" comments.

I hope this is ok! If you prefer different text at the top, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

manwithopinions 1 day ago||

The blog post is a terrible intro, the website is much more insightful: https://oak.space/

I found the section titled “Local feature branches. Server main. One squash.” most interesting.