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The most recommended of 13 coding agent interfaces

Open-source interface for running coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode from desktop, mobile or CLI, with strong remote access. Critics say sub-agents hang and performance lags.

Open-source interface for running coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode from desktop, mobile or CLI, with strong remote access. Critics say sub-agents hang and performance lags.

80 people gave an opinion

recommend it
70
criticize it
10
approval share
88%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 9 of 13 months

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

Owned for 1 month

Median of the 6 owners who said how long they have had it.

Each square is one year.

Why it carries the badge

  • 70 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
  • 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
  • Recommended in 9 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

  • Strong mobile app and remote access

    “Cool project. I don't think people will get the mobile version until they need it but when they do it's a mind bending, life changing realization.”

    Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

    “The biggest thing is that Paseo's mobile app is out and pretty much has feature parity with its desktop app.”

    Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

    “It has a lot of features but you'll find its mobile client is much better than opencode's web view.”

    Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal”
  • Open source and well executed

    “Very nice! an open-sourced alternative of Codex Remote Control, allowing full customization”

    Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

    “I am fully impressed by the diligence and quality of some of the open source tooling”

    Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber”

    “I like seeing projects that focus on usability instead of adding endless features.”

    Comment from 4 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”
  • Higher agent autonomy and throughput

    “For me, what I have found most useful about Paseo is the multi-platform, multi-agent setup because this has given my agent teams much, much more autonomy that I feel like I can trust”

    Comment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO”

    “This has worked fantastically for me, really awesome to see a self-constructed team own the work end-to-end.”

    Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful”

    “the win in my use case is that it feels like I can get higher autonomy without sacrificing quality”

    Comment from 1 Nov 2026 in “Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard”
  • Unified interface for multiple harnesses

    “Paseo has been the most feature complete one with claude and open code support with a top notch mobile experience.”

    Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

    “this lets you view Claude Code, OpenCode and I guess other harnesses like Codex in the same session”

    Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code”

    “having a unified interface while still being able to use their respective harnesses is a godsend”

    Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Sub-agent hangs and bugs

    “Paseo had a really nice UI/UX, except sometimes sub-agents within OpenCode sessions would hang.”

    Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities”

    “both Paseo and Kepler felt a little bit clunky especially around sub-agents and workflows”

    Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux”

    “it has some issues with OpenCode sub-agent liveness checks (I've seen them hang”

    Comment from 23 Aug 2026 in “Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude”
  • Slow performance and memory issues

    “its not optimized at all. let alone the feature bloat.”

    Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task”

    “"reconnection" and state sync is pretty slow”

    Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price”

    “Paseo's perf leaves a lot to be desired.”

    Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI”
  • Less polished or featureful than rivals

    “Paseo is great and has mobile notifications but it’s not as polished as omp web.”

    Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Pi 1.0”

    “Paseo doesn't offer as many features”

    Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “OpenCode 2.0”
  • Claude session resume and CLI issues

    “with Paseo I can't seems to resume a Claude code session”

    Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Berthd”

    “I am still handicapped by the CLI when running in Paseo.”

    Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Anthropic S-1”

Other coding agent interfaces people recommend

The four most recommended other coding agent interfaces, 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.

Paseo compared with 4 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
PaseoThis page701088%91 mo6 ownersApproved
OpenChamber31782%6—Approved
Claude Code Remote Control303645%5——
Omnara272057%4——
Juggler22581%5—Approved
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What people said

40 of the 115 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“the win in my use case is that it feels like I can get higher autonomy without sacrificing quality”

RecommendsComment from 1 Nov 2026 in “Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard”

“For me, what I have found most useful about Paseo is the multi-platform, multi-agent setup because this has given my agent teams much, much more autonomy that I feel like I can trust”

RecommendsComment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO”

“Paseo tends to OOM now and again”

CriticizesComment from 30 Oct 2026 in “Herdr has released native app”

“I am still handicapped by the CLI when running in Paseo.”

CriticizesComment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Anthropic S-1”

“it is the only tool that I've found that has significantly positively improved my throughput”

RecommendsComment from 20 Oct 2026 in “SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful”

“This has worked fantastically for me, really awesome to see a self-constructed team own the work end-to-end.”

RecommendsComment from 20 Oct 2026 in “SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful”

“I just hard forked paseo and used its websockets/relay system w/e2ee along with some additional credentialling.”

RecommendsComment from 19 Oct 2026 in “Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling”

“Paseo doesn't offer as many features”

CriticizesComment from 15 Oct 2026 in “OpenCode 2.0”

“having something like Paseo is a pretty big power-up from directly working with model harnesses”

RecommendsComment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Berthd”

“with Paseo I can't seems to resume a Claude code session”

CriticizesComment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Berthd”

“Paseo is open source, works on lots of different platforms, and has native apps.”

RecommendsComment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Berthd”

“Paseo is great and has mobile notifications but it’s not as polished as omp web.”

MixedComment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Pi 1.0”

“"reconnection" and state sync is pretty slow”

CriticizesComment from 29 Sep 2026 in “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price”

“with a good remote mobile app experience when I want to check in on agent work”

RecommendsComment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI”

“Paseo's perf leaves a lot to be desired.”

MixedComment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI”

“its not optimized at all. let alone the feature bloat.”

MixedComment from 8 Sep 2026 in “I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task”

“It wraps whatever harness you want and makes it accessible on the go.”

RecommendsComment from 31 Aug 2026 in “OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally”

“it has some issues with OpenCode sub-agent liveness checks (I've seen them hang”

CriticizesComment from 23 Aug 2026 in “Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude”

“this lets you view Claude Code, OpenCode and I guess other harnesses like Codex in the same session”

RecommendsComment from 22 Aug 2026 in “Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code”

“Paseo had a really nice UI/UX, except sometimes sub-agents within OpenCode sessions would hang.”

MixedComment from 14 Aug 2026 in “GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities”

“both Paseo and Kepler felt a little bit clunky especially around sub-agents and workflows”

CriticizesComment from 13 Aug 2026 in “ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux”

“sometimes has issues with sub-agents”

CriticizesComment from 12 Aug 2026 in “Zed: Delta”

“The biggest thing is that Paseo's mobile app is out and pretty much has feature parity with its desktop app.”

RecommendsComment from 11 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

“Paseo has been the most feature complete one with claude and open code support with a top notch mobile experience.”

RecommendsComment from 10 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

“having a unified interface while still being able to use their respective harnesses is a godsend”

RecommendsComment from 10 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

“mainly because I have specific preferences for different harness + model combinations”

RecommendsComment from 9 Aug 2026 in “OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment”

“Shines when it comes to remote sessions as your phone can connect to multiple host instances”

RecommendsComment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Claude multisession”

“which has mostly surpassed my expectations. It has changed my workflows”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “I Built a Telegram Client for Pi”

“It has a lot of features but you'll find its mobile client is much better than opencode's web view.”

RecommendsComment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal”

“I am fully impressed by the diligence and quality of some of the open source tooling”

RecommendsComment from 23 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber”

“I am in love with Paseo. I really want to express my gratitude for building this and saving me so much time and energy.”

RecommendsComment from 9 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“I like seeing projects that focus on usability instead of adding endless features.”

RecommendsComment from 4 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“Looks nice. The README pitches model-per-task picking but doesn't say much about context management.”

MixedComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“it is a very focused and cohesive UI compared to many open source projects”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“Cool project. I don't think people will get the mobile version until they need it but when they do it's a mind bending, life changing realization.”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“I will definitely check out this project and contribute to it with what I have learned!”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“this format for interacting with code seems like it has a lot of potential”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“Very nice! an open-sourced alternative of Codex Remote Control, allowing full customization”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“very nice and well executed product for what i assume is a small team”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

“It is more about being able to step away from the desk without losing access to the work.”

RecommendsComment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”

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