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Posted by hexomancer 10 hours ago

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment(openchamber.dev)
119 points | 66 comments
azuanrb 9 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.

haint_ 12 minutes ago||
As someone who uses both Claude Code and Codex, having a unified interface while still being able to use their respective harnesses is a godsend. I've tried a lot of alternatives, and nothing even remotely comes close to the level of polish this one has. The session sync is buttery smooth as well, it's even better than Claude Code mobile I would say. Thanks so much for the recommendation.
robertn702 5 hours ago|||
+1 for Paseo. Switched over to it a few weeks ago from conductor.build then superset.sh. The mobile app plus Hetzner VPS has been really enjoyable in terms of just firing off random tasks and not being stuck at my desk.
antoniojtorres 2 hours ago|||
+1 for paseo. Switched yesterday and it’s a dream how flexible and clean it is.
trueno 8 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 7 hours 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.
barishnamazov 5 hours ago||||
I have a VM in which I run my general compute. In that VM I use incus linux container and run these tools as unauthorized user of the container. That should be reasonable security while having nice control for resources.
krupkinmaxim 7 hours ago|||
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arcanemachiner 8 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 8 hours ago|
on the scroll note, the top background had a seizure while i was scrolling down
nzoschke 2 hours ago||
Looks nice.

I have a number of these pieces in a binary I drop first thing on every agent computer: https://github.com/housecat-inc/scratch

Chat to code with an inspector to point at specific DOM sections, review diffs on the box, hand off to mobile, etc.

Makes me wonder where all this will end up. Or DIY win with hyper-personalized tools? Will one vendor become the center of gravity similar to VSCode in previous generation? Will there be a cottage industry of more opinionated tools?

tomislavpet 9 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?
moltar 8 hours ago||
Huge fan of Orca. Been using it for a month. Plan to setup a proper remote env this week.
epistasis 8 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 7 hours 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.
BlueOrigin50 4 hours ago|||
Huge fan of Orca too.

You can "sleep" the worktree so that it shuts down the terminals / agents to not consume RAM. Then in the worktree card filter, you can select "hide sleep"

Later you can "unhide sleep" and click into the worktree to wake it up if you need it. It will restore all the agents

zmmmmm 1 hour ago||
It's funny / ironic how the whole agentic development boom has taken off in terminal environments, but now the orchestration / IDE layer seems to be all Electron / GUI apps.

Any suggestions for terminal UI versions of something like this?

TSiege 1 hour ago|
It feels a bit like herdr which is like tmux meets agent management
Squarex 8 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.
dakiol 7 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?
trollbridge 1 hour ago|
It is if someone forgot to prompt their harness "don't pull in unnecessary dependencies".
joshgachnang 10 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 9 hours ago|
Yes
throwatdem12311 9 hours ago||
> development environment

First screenshot is of a phone.

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

kyriakos 50 minutes ago||
I frequently use openchamber on the go. It's very good at this.
aleksiy123 8 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.

marginalia_nu 7 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 6 hours 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.

dionian 1 hour ago|||
no issues here with a small iPhone and Blink. I can change the text size on the fly, and am very used to typing on the phone keyboard. Also use dictation
throwatdem12311 6 hours ago||||
Because I’m not putting work in my pocket.
kyriakos 49 minutes ago|||
I don't use it for work I use it for my private projects and this allows me to work on them even when I'm commuting which used ti be wasted time.
dionian 1 hour ago|||
id rather have it in my pocket and get stuff done while im out doing what I feel like doing instead of sitting in an office all day.
shostack 8 hours ago|||
Are there any Android remote terminal apps that don't suck on mobile? Termius is painful.
asar 4 hours ago|||
if you're using herdr, i built a plugin exactly for this reason. its a pwa so requires a proper frontdoor for secured access (tailscale, netbird etc.).

https://github.com/AltanS/collie

aleksiy123 7 hours ago|||
I’m using Termius.

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

kyriakos 48 minutes ago||
It doesn't work with tailscale. Won't prompt you to go through the web sign in.
xienze 8 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.
KronisLV 5 hours ago|
I really enjoy the sidebar style for organising work, I’m not sure why the OpenCode desktop app moved to browser-like tabs (horizontal ones, though tbh my browsers now have vertical ones ehh).
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