@realchendahuang: I've been tinkering with Agent Harnesses like Pi agent, OMP, Zcode, Codex, and Opencode recently, and I finally understand what my real needs are. First: I need a mature and stable GUI. Once you're used to a GUI, it's really hard to go back to a TUI, chatting in a black box…

Recently I’ve been tinkering with Agent Harnesses like Pi Agent, OMP, Zcode, Codex, and Opencode, and I finally understand what I truly need. First: I need a mature, stable GUI page. Once you’re used to a GUI, it’s really hard to go back to a TUI — chatting inside a black box is too painful. You have to memorize a ton of keyboard shortcuts and commands before you can actually use it well. But with a GUI, you just intuitively click icons and buttons. So I must have a mature, stable, and beautiful GUI page. That rules out products like Pi Agent and OMP — their community GUIs are really poorly done, and hand-rolling my own would take a huge amount of effort. Besides, they’re so highly customizable that a hand-rolled GUI wouldn’t have much universality. Second: I need a software product that is not vendor-locked or vendor-biased. Codex does expose a third-party model configuration interface, but configuring it is really troublesome, and third-party models always feel like second-class citizens, which annoys me. Zcode can’t log in to various coding plans via OAuth — like Kimi For Code or Grok Build — so those can’t be used inside Zcode (unless you go down the hacky path). So I ruled out vendor-biased software like ZCode and Codex. Third: I need to be able to do secondary development and customization based on my own needs, so I can give my customers a more convenient out-of-the-box experience. So it must be open source and license-friendly — convenient for me and for my customers, simple and easy to use, without requiring a bunch of black magic hacks. In the end, the only real choice left for me is Opencode. But Opencode is just an agent kernel — to give it a truly mature, stable, and nice-looking GUI product, I finally found the real answer: OpenChamber. Open source address: https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber…
— # openchamber/openchamber Source: https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber # OpenChamber GitHub stars (https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber/stargazers) GitHub release (https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber/releases/latest) Discord (https://discord.gg/ZYRSdnwwKA) Support the project (https://ko-fi.com/G2G41SAWNS) ## Run agent work. Keep control. Ship from anywhere. OpenChamber is an open-source workspace for running, supervising, and reviewing AI coding work across desktop, browser, editor, and mobile. OpenChamber gives you one place to direct agent work, understand the changes, and move them toward release. Your projects stay available when you switch devices or step away. OpenChamber Chat More screenshots VS Code Extension ## What you can do with OpenChamber ### Goals that continue on their own Give a session a finish line with Session Goals. OpenChamber checks the result after every turn and keeps the agent working until the goal is complete, blocked, or reaches the limit you set — even after you close the app. ### Compare and combine runs Use Multi-run to give the same task to up to five models, each in its own session and optionally its own worktree. See what each one actually built, choose the best result, or use Fusion to combine the strongest parts into a new session. ### Guided changes walkthroughs Changes Walkthrough turns a large diff into an AI-guided tour of the change. It groups related edits into steps, puts them in the order the change makes sense, and explains how the pieces fit together. ### Inspect a running app Open your app beside the conversation with Preview. Point at an element and send the agent its screenshot, styles, position, and browser errors — all the context behind “this thing here.” Desktop brings the same workflow to any web page through its built-in browser. ### GitHub context from issue to pull request Start a session from a GitHub issue or pull request with its context attached. Send failed checks or review comments back to the agent, then update or merge the pull request from OpenChamber. ### Continue on another device Open the same projects and sessions from Desktop, Web/PWA, VS Code, iOS, or Android. Check progress, answer questions, review changes, and reattach to a running terminal. ### Private remote access Pair a device with a one-time QR code and connect through Private Relay without opening ports or exposing a public server. The connection is end-to-end encrypted and can be revoked at any time. Direct connections, LAN/VPN access, Cloudflare/Ngrok tunnels, and SSH are also supported. ### Track work across projects See which sessions are working, waiting, finished, or failed, along with approvals, scheduled tasks, provider limits, token use, and costs. Organize sessions into folders and keep notes, todos, and reusable project actions nearby. ### Schedule recurring work Run a prompt once, daily, weekly, or on a cron schedule. Scheduled tasks can use Session Goals, so they continue toward an outcome instead of stopping after one response. ## Use it where you work | Surface | Role | | — | — | | Desktop | The complete workspace for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with multiple windows, Mini Chat, remote machines, SSH, and native notifications | | Web / PWA | Open your workspace in a browser, install it as an app, and stay up to date through background notifications | | VS Code | Keep sessions beside your code, send selections to the agent, open results in the editor, and compare parallel runs | | iOS / Android | Review and steer work away from your desk, receive completion alerts, and use the terminal with touch controls | | CLI / Server | Run OpenChamber on a workstation or server, schedule work, manage remote access, and keep it available after login | ## Quick start ### Desktop — macOS, Windows, and Linux Download the latest release from GitHub Releases (https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber/releases/latest). Desktop bundles the matching OpenCode CLI, so no separate OpenCode installation is required. Linux releases are available as x86_64 and ARM64 AppImages. Make the downloaded AppImage executable and keep it in a writable location for in-app updates: bash chmod +x OpenChamber-*.AppImage ./OpenChamber-*.AppImage Linux AppImages require FUSE (libfuse.so.2). Without FUSE, run with APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1. ### VS Code Install OpenChamber from the Visual Studio Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fedaykindev.openchamber), or search for “OpenChamber” in Extensions. ### CLI — Web and PWA Requires Node.js 22+. CLI/Web and VS Code use your installed OpenCode CLI (https://opencode.ai). bash curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openchamber/openchamber/main/scripts/install.sh | bash openchamber --ui-password be-creative-here Common operations: bash openchamber status openchamber connect-url --qr openchamber tunnel start --provider cloudflare --mode quick --qr openchamber startup enable openchamber logs openchamber stop openchamber update OpenChamber binds to localhost by default. Use --lan only on a trusted network and protect browser access with --ui-password. ## Guides Go deeper with the OpenChamber guides: - Quick start - Installation - Connect devices - Private Relay - Multi-run - Session Goals - Changes Walkthrough - Preview and dev servers - GitHub workflows - Mobile - Security - Troubleshooting For self-hosting details, see the reverse proxy guide. For custom theme authoring, see the custom themes guide. ## Why OpenCode? OpenChamber uses OpenCode (https://opencode.ai) to power its coding agents. We chose it because we believe it provides the best open-source agentic coding experience today: capable, extensible, and open by design. Around that foundation, OpenChamber brings together the work that happens before, during, and after an agent run — deciding what to try, keeping it on track, reviewing the result, connecting from anywhere, and getting the change shipped. OpenChamber is an independent project and is not affiliated with the OpenCode team. ## Contributing See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and contribution guidelines. Documentation authoring guidance lives in packages/docs. ## Acknowledgments Special thanks to: - OpenCode (https://opencode.ai) for its excellent API and extensible open-source architecture - Pierre (https://pierrejs-docs.vercel.app/) for its fast diff viewer and syntax highlighting - Ghostty-web (https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web) for its Ghostty web renderer - Yulia Ivashko (https://github.com/yulia-ivashko), who built the firework celebration that plays on every successful push - Every contributor who shaped OpenChamber with code, ideas, and attention to detail ## License MIT