alt Hacker NewsSo I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose
Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI.
Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnostic implementation to win but I felt the odds are off then. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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Open source rarely wins at the start.
Instead, its strength tends to be a continued improvement over the long term, in a way that commercial software just can't sustain because it needs to show a return on investment.
I did tried as well few months and also uninstalled. Application didn't at least back then have update feature and for each new release you had to reinstall again. UI experience was also very poor comparing to many other open source projects - would expect they at least hire some designer
The OpenHands CLI has had some major improvements since v1: https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands
MIT license and model agnostic
I’d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month:
Tried Goose, couldn't do anything. OpenCode is better. Mistral's Vibe too.
Goose was super jank when I last tried it. Not worth a look
I use OpenCode as my main CLI tool at this point, falling back to Claude Code and Codex as needed. It's really solid these days, highly recommend.
I use Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and GPT 5/5-mini with great results on OC. I initially tried it so I could decouple from VS Code extensions while still using my Github Copilot plan like I had been with Roo Code/Kilo Code, but have branched out to also using it with the Claude Code backend and their free models as they come and go.
Definitely worth trying if you haven't picked it up recently.