Comment by 361994752

4 hours ago

I double checked the publish date before writing down this comment. Because I use the same harness (Opencode, to be specific) as the author, and some of the features are just right there. Like opencode can start multiple subagents for different tasks in parallel. Also I usually ask the main model (e.g. opus 5.5) to pick subagent models for me, and it has no problem identify the difficulty of work and delegate large portion of them to gpt-luna.

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mtlynch  3 hours ago

OP here.

I didn't want to complain about OpenCode too much because it's open-source and kind of the scrappy underdog to Claude/Codex, but I do find its multitasking support pretty limited. I have to specifically remind it to spin up subagents, and when it does, it'll do 2-3 tasks in parallel and then wait until all of them finish. It can't seem to inspect tasks in progress, and if a subagent dies or hangs, the main agent can't seem to retrieve any information from it, even though I as the human can look at the session and see what happened.

Are you doing anything special to make OpenCode multitask well?

  • 361994752  1 hour ago

    I'm using opencode v2, if it matters. I don't have any special skills / prompts for subtasks. Instead, I found new models (I usually have sol or opus as my main model) have the tendency to trigger subtasks, even to a level I need to ask it "please do this task XYZ yourself". The only special prompt I gave is just something like "please use gpt sol or luna for subtasks, base on your judgement". And in my experience it can handle more than 5 async subtasks out of the box

    • mtlynch  1 hour ago

      Oh, maybe I should try v2.

      I'm confused about opencode's v1/v2 split. The docs say v2 is here, but their Github is only v1.x.[0] And the docs don't really explain why v2 is better, but there's a long list of things I have to do to migrate,[1] so I haven't been that eager to pull the trigger, especially since I can't tell if they consider it alpha/beta/release.

      [0] https://opencode.ai/v2/docs

      [1] https://opencode.ai/v2/docs/migrate-v1/