OhMyPi
Hacker ApprovedRanked 2 of 3 coding harnesses by recommenders
Recommended as an easy out-of-the-box coding harness that makes swapping models simple and can be extended with custom guardrails.
Recommended as an easy out-of-the-box coding harness that makes swapping models simple and can be extended with custom guardrails.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 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
Good out-of-the-box experience
“I feel like this is a good starting point for someone like me who is not ready to configure a harness from zero right now.”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage” “it's quite good out of the box and works great with your codex subscription”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Elevated error rate across multiple models” “ohmypi if you want a good OOB experience”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities” Performs better than alternatives
“Pi, especially bundled as OhMyPi, performs significantly better than anything else.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “Stop Using OpenCode” “Opencode/Pi/ohmypi are much better than claude code.”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps” Enjoyable as a personal harness
“Been having fun with ohmypi as my personal harness”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage” “I am extremely happy with ohmypi”
Comment from 12 Jun 2026 in “Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency”
Other coding harnesses people recommend
The two most recommended other coding harnesses, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospero coding harness | 13 | 5 | 72% | 3 | — | — |
| OhMyPiThis page | 10 | 5 | 67% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Opair | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
16 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“OhMyPi makes it trivial to swap models without swapping your harness.”
“how could the authors of frontierharness.org not see they used the exact same symbol for Claude Code and OhMyPi?”
“OhMyPi is essentially Claude like bloated”
“Pi barebones at least in this set of tests, preformed better and cheaper cost that OMP.”
“Ohmypi literally has a separate command to copy the prompt because of that”
“Personally I didn't like it as much as OpenCode.”
“you can just use a ZDR provider and an open-source harness to stay private and not share your data”
“ohmypi if you want a good OOB experience”
“it sort of misses the point”
“I feel like this is a good starting point for someone like me who is not ready to configure a harness from zero right now.”
“Been having fun with ohmypi as my personal harness”
“Pi, especially bundled as OhMyPi, performs significantly better than anything else.”
“Opencode/Pi/ohmypi are much better than claude code.”
“it's quite good out of the box and works great with your codex subscription”
“I am extremely happy with ohmypi”
“I can extend it and put guardrails specific for our company and myself”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.