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Free open-source terminal coding agent praised for strong benchmark results and for feeling more effective and accurate. One reported caveat: .gitignore handling differs from its documentation.
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Free open-source terminal coding agent praised for strong benchmark results and for feeling more effective and accurate. One reported caveat: .gitignore handling differs from its documentation.
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Why people love it
Well-designed with impressive results · 2
Clearly a well-iterated design with good choices made.
Apr 2026 · commentReally impressive results.
Apr 2026 · comment
What people warn about
.gitignore behavior differs from docs · 1
the main bug/surprise is the .gitignore behavior is not what's documented
Apr 2026 · comment
What hackers pick instead
- CodeWhalePeople recommend it as an affordable, slick front end for DeepSeek models, tuned for DeepSeek's caching so usage stays cheap.7recommend
- AgenttyRecommended for running several coding agent sessions in parallel, with git handling built in. One critic raised a risk of account bans from its Claude OAuth use.7recommend
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the main bug/surprise is the .gitignore behavior is not what's documented
Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview”
Clearly a well-iterated design with good choices made.
Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview”
Really impressive results.
Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview”
it works pretty well, nice job! I had the "feeling" the agent was more effective and accurate
Mixed · May 2026 · in “Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview”
The best kind of project.
Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview”
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