alt Hacker NewsYou seem to have tried a few things, if you don't mind I have a few questions as someone currently on Claude Code but would prefer to not lock myself in a commercial ecosystem (and their pricing change regarding headless usage is annoying me):
- how do/would you add the WebSearch tool to your harness? pay for a separate service or does deepseek offer something with their subscriptions?
- do pi/opencode support pasting images in prompts?
- how do you handle reading images? deepseek is not multi modal IIRC? do you pay for another model and route to it?
Any of these missing would really annoy me in day to day use...
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ReptileMan • today at 9:48 PM
I use them for pure coding, but I think they do curls when needing something from the host machine.
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Brave, Exa, and Tavily all offer a free tier for websearch, after that it comes out to like 1¢/search, very easy to ask pi to build a web search tool using any of these providers.
They support image locations like a file or url, but not regular images (opencode desktop might though?)
Both pi and opencode make it very easy to change models so you can easily call to 5.4-mini or whichever multi-modal LLM for reading images. I'm sure you could even create a skill to automate the process too, having the model use the cli to send the photo to the multi-modal and give it back a description.