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oh-my-openagent

Shares rank 3 of 8 coding agent plugins by recommenders

Bundles async agents, model orchestration and subagent planning into the OpenCode coding agent. Critics say it burns more tokens and gives little measurable gain.

Bundles async agents, model orchestration and subagent planning into the OpenCode coding agent. Critics say it burns more tokens and gives little measurable gain.

16 people gave an opinion

recommend it
10
criticize it
6
approval share
63%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 8 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
  • 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
  • Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.

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What people say about it

The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • Orchestrates subagents with distinct roles

    “It does an incredible job at planning and executing by orchestrating subagents with different roles.”

    Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs”

    “implements the OP article's oracle pattern across 11 roles”

    Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA”
  • Works well with Claude and GPT models

    “I've been pretty satisfied using oh-my-openagent (omo) on opencode with both opus-4.6 and gpt-5.4 lately.”

    Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw”

    “I've been using opencode and oh-my-opencode with Claude's models”

    Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
  • Useful planning and plan mode

    “It does an incredible job at planning and executing by orchestrating subagents with different roles.”

    Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs”

    “Try oh-my-openagent plan mode.”

    Comment from 7 May 2026 in “ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Little performance gain, more tokens

    “When they realized it didn't lead to any significant gains in performance”

    Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Agent Skills”

    “snake oil like Oh My OpenCode, it’s not huge differences”

    Comment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything”

    “mostly they burn more tokens”

    Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework”

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What people said

19 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“You can already do this with”

RecommendsComment from 28 Sep 2026 in “World Labs is Joining AMD”

“mostly they burn more tokens”

CriticizesComment from 16 Sep 2026 in “OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework”

“you can't use your claude subscription with oh-my-openagent”

CriticizesComment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA”

“implements the OP article's oracle pattern across 11 roles”

RecommendsComment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA”

“oh-my-openagent's gargantuan hooks+plugin system”

CriticizesComment from 9 Jul 2026 in “Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration”

“Most of that switching is automated (oh-my-openagent).”

RecommendsComment from 16 Jun 2026 in “SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B”

“not being a full orchestrator metapackage like oh-my-opencode”

MixedComment from 12 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source”

“It does an incredible job at planning and executing by orchestrating subagents with different roles.”

RecommendsComment from 27 May 2026 in “Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs”

“Try oh-my-openagent plan mode.”

RecommendsComment from 7 May 2026 in “ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math”

“When they realized it didn't lead to any significant gains in performance”

CriticizesComment from 5 May 2026 in “Agent Skills”

“I've been pretty satisfied using oh-my-openagent (omo) on opencode with both opus-4.6 and gpt-5.4 lately.”

RecommendsComment from 5 Apr 2026 in “Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw”

“Working well enough so far, but keen to really evolve the skill flow”

MixedComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“it's effectively the same as GSD, but better imo”

RecommendsComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“I've been using opencode and oh-my-opencode with Claude's models”

RecommendsComment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”

“the answer is just to install Oh My Opencode and Kimi K2.5”

RecommendsComment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Agentic Engineering Patterns”

“You should consider looking at oh-my-opencode for inspiration”

RecommendsComment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Kubernetes for AI Agents”

“the setups are rather brittle and was hard to get working out of the box”

CriticizesComment from 11 Jan 2026 in “Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude”

“snake oil like Oh My OpenCode, it’s not huge differences”

CriticizesComment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything”

“I've implemented Claude Code's Async Agent, AmpCode's Model Orchestration, and Droid's razor-sharp precision into a single OpenCode plugin.”

RecommendsComment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Oh-My-Opencode: $24,000 Worth Spent. Built Async agents, Curated Agents”

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