Overview

Hey everyone 👋

If you've ever hit your Claude Code token limits mid-task, wondered what's happening under the hood of a closed-source agent, or just wanted to plug in a different model without switching tools entirely, OpenCode might be exactly what you were looking for.

It's the open source alternative that took the terminal agent concept and made it model-agnostic, and by mid-2026 it had already surpassed Claude Code on GitHub stars. That's not a coincidence.

Let me break it down. Let's dive in! 🤙