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opcode

#58 agent harnessverified Sep 4, 2026v0.2.0

Desktop GUI and toolkit for Claude Code with custom agents, session browsing, checkpoints and usage analytics

Key differences

Desktop GUI and toolkit for Claude Code with custom agents, session browsing, checkpoints and usage analytics

  • Runs local. Free and open source; you bring your own Claude Code authentication
  • Runs multiple agents. Listed for 165 of 194 tools in this category.
  • Keep in mind: Custom agents and background agents are defined and run from the GUI, each with its own file and network permission settings; they are separate Claude Code runs, not a container sandbox.

“Twenty-two thousand people starred a desktop application that you still have to compile yourself.”

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What it is

opcode is a Tauri and React desktop application that wraps the Claude Code CLI in a visual interface: a project and session browser, custom agent definitions with per-agent permission control, MCP server management, session checkpoints with a branching timeline, and a token usage dashboard. It was published as Claudia until the v0.2.0 release rebranded it to opcode, and the repository has since moved to the winfunc organisation. Development has been quiet since late 2025.

Specification

Source verification

Row snapshot checked 2026-09-04. Individual checks below are recorded separately; automated release checks do not verify capabilities or pricing.

install
Needs individual review
license
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capabilities
Needs individual review
models
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protocols
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pricing
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status
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Architecture

Type
Agent harness
Runssrc ↗
local
Platforms
macos, linux, windows
Context windowsrc ↗
not documented
Languages
any

Models

Backbonesrc ↗
Claude
Bring your own model
No
Local models
No

Protocols

MCP clientsrc ↗
Yes
MCP server
No
OpenAPI tools
No

Capabilities

Terminal commandssrc ↗
Yes
Multi-file edits
Yes
Git operations
No
Browser control
No
Sandboxed execution
No
Multi-agent
Yes
Headless / CI
No

Cost

Modelsrc ↗
free
Starts at
$0/mo
Free tier
Yes
Bring your own key
Yes

Free and open source; you bring your own Claude Code authentication

Openness

Open sourcesrc ↗
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0
First release
2025-08
renamedmaintenance-onlyguiclaude-codecheckpointssubagentsmcpopen-source

Los Agentes on opcode

Who are they?
The ruling
El JuezThe judge

El Crítico and La Inversora reach the same conclusion from different evidence: he reads a commit history that stopped, she reads a rename and a change of address.

Trial only
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

El Crítico's finding is that development has been quiet since late 2025 while the tool it wraps ships constantly, which makes drift a certainty rather than a risk. La Inversora reads a rebrand and a repository that changed hands, and concludes the attention was spent rather than invested. El Hacker's copyleft answer is about rights, not maintenance.

Both dissenters win and El Hacker is overruled on practicality: the freedom to fix something is not the same as anyone fixing it. Trial only, on a machine where a stale wrapper cannot cost you anything, and re-check the repository before you rely on it for a second month.

Agree with El Juez?
El AmigoThe friend

Pick it if you use Claude Code daily and cannot find last Tuesday's session; pick Conductor if you want a maintained window around the same command-line tool.

5.5
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

You will like the first hour. The deciding trait in daily use is retrieval: a project and session browser means the conversation where you worked out that migration is something you can find again, rather than something you scroll a terminal buffer hoping to see. The token dashboard answers the other daily question, which is where the month went.

Pick it only if that recall problem is genuinely costing you time. Pick Conductor for the same shape with someone still shipping, or stay in the command-line tool itself if you never lose track of a session.

reliability
5
usefulness
6
cost
8
longevity
3
Agree with El Amigo?
El CríticoThe critic

It is a wrapper around a command-line tool that ships constantly, and its own development has been quiet since late 2025.

5.0
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The risk is drift. Everything this presents comes from a rapidly moving external program, and an interface layer that has not moved since late 2025 accumulates mismatches with every upstream release. Nothing on the row promises a supported interface between the two. The failure mode is not a crash; it is a panel that quietly stops reflecting what the underlying tool is doing, which is worse in a product whose entire job is visibility.

What it does right: agents are defined with their own file and network permission settings, so capability is scoped per agent rather than granted once to everything.

reliability
4
usefulness
6
cost
7
longevity
3
Agree with El Crítico?
El ProfesorThe professor

Checkpoints and the branching timeline are the application's own session versioning and explicitly not git operations, and the row is careful to say so.

5.8
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Two observations. 1. Versioning is applied at the conversation layer rather than the repository layer, so a checkpoint restores the session's state and makes no claim about the working tree. That distinction is stated rather than blurred, which is more precision than most wrappers offer, and it means the mental model a user forms is the correct one. 2. Session history is browsable as data, so past runs are inspectable after the fact.

No evaluation is published. The design's durability depends entirely on the stability of an interface it does not own, which is the structural weakness of every wrapper.

reliability
6
usefulness
6
cost
7
longevity
4
Agree with El Profesor?
La InversoraThe investor

Rebranded once and moved to a different organisation, with no revenue attached: the asset here is attention that has already been spent.

4.8
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Two ownership signals in one row. The product carried a different name until a version bump renamed it, and the repository subsequently moved to another organisation. Renames cost accumulated search traffic and moves usually mean the original steward stepped back, so together they read as a project being handed on rather than built up. No tier, no hosted service, no revenue path attached to a copyleft desktop wrapper.

There is no acquirer for this; the vendor whose tool it wraps would build it in a fortnight if it mattered. Position: no commercial dependency, and treat any future revival as a new product.

reliability
4
usefulness
6
cost
6
longevity
3
Agree with La Inversora?
La JefaThe CTO

The only documented install is building it yourself with bun and a Tauri toolchain, which rules it out for a managed fleet before I reach the security questions.

4.5
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Distribution decides this one. There is no signed package on the row, only a clone-and-compile path that expects a toolchain on the machine, and asking sixty engineers to build their own desktop application is not a rollout, it is sixty unsupported binaries. Nothing offers SSO, SCIM or an audit trail, and there is no headless mode, so it contributes nothing to a pipeline.

The usage dashboard is genuinely useful for an individual and reports to nobody above them. Onboarding is an afternoon plus a build. Not yet, and probably never in this form.

reliability
4
usefulness
5
cost
6
longevity
3
Agree with La Jefa?
El HackerThe tinkerer

AGPL-3.0, a Rust and React desktop app I build with bun, and a real MCP server manager, but the model is Claude and only Claude.

6.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The licence is the good news: strong copyleft means a fork stays open and anyone who ships a hosted version owes the source back, and building it myself is a normal afternoon rather than a reverse-engineering project. Managing MCP servers from the interface is the feature I would otherwise be editing JSON for.

The bad news is the ceiling. This drives one vendor's command-line tool, so the model is not a choice I get to make, my own key is the only thing I bring, and nothing here runs on my own hardware. A fork inherits that limitation because the limitation is the point of the product.

reliability
6
usefulness
6
cost
8
longevity
5
Agree with El Hacker?