[rs186]

Apparently that ship has sailed. Claude Code and Gemini CLI requires Node.js installation, and Gemini README reads as if npm is a tool that everybody knows and has already installed.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

[dboon]

Opencode is a great model agnostic alternative which does not require a separate runtime

[yunohn]

Opencode uses TS and Golang, it definitely needs a runtime for the TS part. CPU usage hovers around 100% for me on an MBP M3 Max.

[dboon]

I meant that it’s bundled with the binary such that you don’t need to make sure some random version of eg Node is available

[yunohn]

AFAIK all the other agent CLIs do that too? Which ones need you to bring the exact runtime?

[Sharlin]

That's terrible, but at the very least there's the tiny justification that those are web API clients rather than standalone/local tools.