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by verdverm 2 days ago
opencode is highly regarded, I use it exclusively
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Open code is cool once I added the ctrl-o function to it (show thinking and command outputs at will instead of on by default), but sadly I don't think it got merged by the team.

I forgot why.

But I can't use an AI cli without that feature.

you can turn those on through the existing menu system
I've used open code extensively -- it's not bad, but it's not anywhere near the level of the codex application.
...but we're talking about compaction, and opencode's compaction is (or was) terrible. I've seen so many horrible problems that I keep it disabled (with an envvar flag, because even the config flag to turn it off was broken).
I don't use compaction, I keep my context limited, my sessions fresh, and have agents write markdown files as needed