Comment by mtlynch
5 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?
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
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/
v2 on their GitHub is tracked in the v2 branch.
If you want it to do things in parallel ... have you tried the superpowers skill?