The things you describe are just tool calling, they're a feature of whatever harness you use. Use OpenCode, pi.dev, or maki.sh with any of the open models.

> I do have to admit I have recently begun wishing I could pay five dollars a month for a "just answer the fucking question" plan that would give me results without the guardrails and without the constant simpering and ego-stroking. I keep finding myself going a quick evaluation of "is it faster for me to skim search results myself or to construct an elaborate narrative to make an AI give me a real answer".

You can do most of this with some system prompts added to whatever agent you're using. You can do it from the settings on the claude/chatgpt websites too. (minus the no-guardrails thing)

I was able to get a new prescription for < $100, and bought a new APAP for about $600, no new sleep study required.

I've thought back throughout my career to how lucky I was, it kept me from going crazy. Thank you!

So I put together a plan for refactoring it, step by step, with tests, etc. After literally 8 solid days of fighting with Gemini 3 Pro, I still couldn't pull it off.

I gave GPT 5.5 a chance with the same prompt, plans, and repo. I'm not sure how long it took, but when I checked in on it a few hours later it was done. All tests passed, everything exactly how I'd asked, and better (it made some improvements).

1) Curated a set of models I like and heavily optimized all possible settings, per agent role and even per skill (had to really replumb a lot of stuff to get it as granular as I liked)

2) Ported from sqlite to postgresql, with heavily extended schema. I generate embeddings for everything, so every aspect of my stack is a knowledge graph that can be vector searched. Integrated with a memory MCP server and auditing tools so I can trace anything that happens in the stack/cluster back to an agent action and even thinking that was related to the action. It really helps refine stuff.

3) Tight integration of Gitea server, k3s with RBAC (agents get their own permissions in the cluster), every user workspace is a pod running opencode web UI behind Gitea oauth2.

4) Codified structure of `/projects//` with simpler browserso non-technical family members can manage their work easier (agents handle all the management and there are sidecars handling all gitops transparent to the user)

5) Transparent failover across providers with cooldown by making model definitions linked lists in the config, so I can use a handful of subscriptions that offer my favorite models, and fail over from one to the next as I hit quota/rate limits. This has really cut my bill down lately, along with skipping OpenRouter for my favorite models and going direct to Alibaba and Xiaomi so I can tailor caching and stuff exactly how I want.

6) Integrated filebrowser, a fork of the Milkdown Crepe markdown editor, and codemirror editor so I don't even need an IDE anymore. I just work entirely from OpenCode web UI on whatever device is nearest at the moment. I added support for using Gemma 4 local on CPU from my phone yesterday while waiting in line at a store yesterday.

Those are the big ones off the top of my head. Im sure there's more. I've probably made a few hundred other changes, it just evolves as I go.

Right now my solution is to run CC in tmux and keep a 2nd CC pane with /loop watching the first pane and killing CC if it detects plan mode being bypassed. Burning tokens to work around a bug.

Still use CC at work because team standards, but I'd take my OpenCode stack over it any day.

It started as a what-if joke, but it's turned out to be amazing. So yeah, npmjs.com is just reference site for me now, and node_modules stays tiny.

And the output is honestly superior. I end up with smaller projects, clean code, and a huge suite of property-based tests from the refactor process. And it's fully automatic.

I'm finding that the extra "hand holding" that MiMo and MiniMax need isn't really "extra." The Anthropic models happily agree to a plan and then do something else entirely way too often.

With MiMo and MiniMax I'm just spreading the attention throughout the day instead of big spikes of frustration figuring out where Claude went off the rails.

We operate as a diversion program with our local department of juvenile justice, and I would definitely describe the process as transformative.

From the financial perspective alone, our local law enforcement has seen a 6:1 return on investment on restorative practices. The value of all the changed lives is immeasurable.

I can build it for you if you like.