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The OpenCode desktop app has worktree support now and I need your feedback! Okay, maybe not *need*, but I want it!

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Adam9 months ago

My stream overlay stuff getting in the way smh

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trash9 months ago

@opencode i thought this was slack

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SIGKITTEN9 months ago

@opencode do you find yourself using worktrees?

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Adam9 months ago

@opencode Using them a ton, come hang on twitch you can see how I’m using them

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Ibrahim Tahir9 months ago

@opencode merging locally is the way I prefer it. Going to github and merging the PR from there takes you too far away from the flow.

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Filip9 months ago

@opencode Feedback related to plugins within the desktop app is also appreciated!

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Ike Victor9 months ago

@opencode the desktop app is becoming more and more usable. I prefer it to terminal now! One thing though, why take away the MCPs indicator at the top right? I liked it.

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Adam9 months ago

@opencode It’s coming back much better

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Aardvark Erickson8 months ago

Check out how codex did this, it feels like a much more natural abstraction. The workspaces are abstract and 1:1 with the session, not long-lived containers. A session is either local, in a workspace, or in the cloud. This greatly reduces the cognitive load of using them and simplifies it to "run this isolated". Seeing the worktrees and their auto-generated names in the UI feels like a leaky abstraction. Shove the down into the session IMO. Just my $0.02 as someone that really wants to see this be the best it can be.

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Adam8 months ago

@opencode Yeah, we’re headed this way I think

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Aardvark Erickson8 months ago

@opencode Beautiful, thanks for the update and the speed run of features!

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Karim C9 months ago

@opencode Worktrees are one of those features that quietly changes your whole cadence. Less branch juggling, more parallel work without context loss. If the UX makes “new task = new worktree” feel effortless, teams will actually stick with it.

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Vox9 months ago

@opencode tried worktree in conductor before but been sticking with opencode cli. this might actually get me to try the desktop app

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Filipe Mendes9 months ago

@opencode This is awesome! To me the only thing left is to show the project tree with the changed files in the "review" tab, similar to a PR in GH. Alternatively for a start, a new tab with it might work as well.

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justin9 months ago

@opencode Say please bro

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Timur9 months ago

@opencode ssh support please 🙏

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Omar McAdam9 months ago

@opencode Great! Will it eventually come to TUI? dont mind playing with desktop for a bit to test

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Howaboua9 months ago

@opencode This is absolute fire and you made me want to try it finally ;] Problem is I might need to rewrite all my plugins if I start using it.

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Nick Emb9 months ago

@opencode Rebase / Merge feels like the right DX to me. Awesome work right here, super clean. 🫰

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Austin Thesing9 months ago

@opencode wait does TUI have worktree support and I just haven't figured it out?

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Michael Gabriel9 months ago

Really love the idea of having backing systems separate from worktrees, should make async work in the future so much easier. I personally only really find myself using worktrees in the context of a specific PR, so I'd find the current UI a bit redundant. I generally work with worktrees in flows similar to vibe-kanban, where the worktree/container gets spun up on convo start and I don't have to care about it. Really like the idea of having a button to rm the worktree or stop the docker container. Honestly not sure if any tool could automate that correctly, so it's a great idea to start with a button. For docker maybe you could go a step further and indicate container status?

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romeo🇵🇸🇩🇿❤️9 months ago

@opencode I've tried the web app, 2 things I think would make it better. Once the response stops streaming if immediately put you at the end so if you're in the middle of reading messes u up and would be cool to have a copy button on markdown block

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Kartik9 months ago

@opencode i just saw it last night and it's absolutely amazing! much needed feature

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Franek Madej9 months ago

@opencode To me worktrees are worth it only if agent is fully equipped. We do slim deployments (only stateless external services if possible) and I use worktrunk to maintain worktrees. It’s because without Tidewave Elixir apps are 10x harder to write for agents. wt uses hooks for that…

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Nathanael 💾9 months ago

@opencode When I have "parallelizable" phases in the same PR, I usually spin up multiple worktrees and squash back into the original branch Was using the CLI and a couple scripts to open tmux windows and make changes Having it directly in desktop's integrated terminal is awesome!

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Aditya9 months ago

@opencode im gonna enjoy this

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muzz khan9 months ago

@opencode probably figure out local merging/rebasing before making the pr dx better. also add hooks for stuff like post-create, post-removal, post-merge yada yada

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Kodder 🇱🇧 🇨🇦9 months ago

@opencode someday I will wake up early enough to catch your stream again... this move to west coast made it almost impossible,

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Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄9 months ago

@opencode Dang this is good. I want vertical panes (will try wt for now) too if you can add it. If you search by my username ( I have some quality feedback for Desktop. I'm using it a ton & would love some basic features.

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Uwe9 months ago

@opencode I'm trying to get into worktrees and this sounds like the right opportunity. Having a workflow to create a PR directly would be really nice.

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Vikram9 months ago

@opencode Pretty cool. Sorry for the side note but Codex doesn't really work very well on Open Code. Feel like it's asking me too many questions instead of going and doing things.

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Adam9 months ago

@opencode I’ve heard this from a lot of people, it’s wild bc very much not my experience! Do you reference files when you prompt? What thinking level?

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Vikram9 months ago

@opencode Usually no I don't reference files and I feel like Codex really wants me to be a too specific. I use medium since that's what I use with Codex CLI. It works way better with the CLI. Kind of the opposite experience than Gemini. I feel it works better in OpenCode than native CLI.

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Aiden Cline9 months ago

@adamdotdev @opencode What version were u having this with / what version r u on

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Vikram9 months ago

@adamdotdev @opencode I think I am always on latest since OpenCode auto updates. So whatever was latest yesterday. Didn't use with Codex today

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Leadlyx9 months ago

@opencode This unlocks cleaner parallel development.

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Fabian9 months ago

@opencode I love it. Is this also available for linux (ubuntu)?

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greek dev 🇬🇷9 months ago

I will try it! Opencode is a truly amazing product and I've used it a lot with ChatGPT5.2 Codex for iOS development (I am a rookie in iOS) and it seems to do a much better job than Claude while giving me awesome rate limits. However, I think instead of a desktop version it would be better to focus on making the coding agent as good as possible (I love the TUI).

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Jon Borgwing9 months ago

@opencode For some reason OpenCode Desktop is very choppy on M4 Pro - happy to provide more information as desired

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Rob Eisenberg9 months ago

@opencode Any plans for a desktop UI plugin story? I’d love extensibility points so a custom OpenCode plugin can talk to (or embed) a companion web UI.

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Donny Li9 months ago

@opencode Worktree support in the desktop app is a nice quality-of-life win—glad to see the UI catching up to what devs actually need to branch fast.

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kash9 months ago

@opencode is there anyway for desktop app to access the sessions from cli?

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ndraiman9 months ago

@opencode Nice! been using worktrees a lot (i prefer it over multiple clones). been meaning to give the desktop app another spin to see the recent progress compared to the TUI.

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