AI Agent's like Claude Code are an arms race to the bottom. Just like frontier model quality, they all converge on feature sets over time (plan mode, skills, remote execution, sandboxing, etc.,) and opencode is holding its own, preferred even, in a lot of cases.

The real differentiated value comes from the environment the AI Agent operates in, the runtime.

The runtime is agent agnostic but provides a stable interface to your domain. People tried this with MCP, but MCP is a dead end. Local tool calling is so much better. Being able to extend integrations autonomously is the way, instead of being forced in to a bloated bag of tools.

This is why we built swamp - https://swamp.club. We can integrate with any technology with an API, CLI, or code base and build repeatable, typed, validated automation workflows. There are no providers to wait for. No weird tool call paths trying to get the right concoction of MCP. The agent builds the integration itself, on the spot, in minutes.