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https://x.com/meowgorithm/status/1933593074820891062

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I’m the founder and CEO of Charm. There are claims circulating about OpenCode which are untrue, and I want to clarify what actually happened.

In April, Kujtim Hoxha built a project called TermAI—an agentic coding tool built on top of Charm’s open-source stack: Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Bubbles, and Glamour.

Two developers approached him offering UX help and promotion, and suggested renaming the project to OpenCode. One of them bought a domain and pointed it at the repo.

At the time, they explicitly assured Kujtim that the project and repo belonged entirely to him, and that he was free to walk away at any point.

We loved what Kujtim built and offered him a full-time role at Charm so he could continue developing the project with funding, infrastructure, and support. The others were informed and declined to match the offer.

I also mentioned that if the project moved to Charm, a rename might follow. No agreement was made.

Shortly after, they forked the repo, moved it into their company’s GitHub org, retained the OpenCode name, took over the AUR package, and redirected the domain they owned.

To clarify specific claims being circulated:

- No commit history was altered

- We re-registered AUR packages for continuity

- Comments were only removed if misleading or promotional

- The project is maintained transparently by its original creator

The original project, created by Kujtim, remains open source and active—with the full support of the team at Charm.

That’s the story. We’ll have more to share soon.

> an agentic coding tool built on top of Charm’s open-source stack: Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Bubbles, and Glamour.

Okay I feel old now.

Come on man, the BLBG stack is where it's at! What are you using, Github Copilot?!

Seriously, though: Charm creates CLI tools, not coding agents: https://charm.sh/ https://github.com/orgs/charmbracelet/repositories

Also, https://github.com/kujtimiihoxha 's recent commits are in https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode .

But what does https://sst.dev/ (org behind https://github.com/sst/opencode) have to do with either charm or opencode?? Like Charm, it has nothing to do with coding agents.

Not for me.

You’re implying the door has now closed for people to get into coding agents. It’s a bit early for that don’t you think? These guys might one day be considered part of the founders of coding agents for all we know.

No I'm just saying I'm not touching a project with these red flags.

It's pretty funny to refer to your libraries for building a TUI as an "open-source stack". From the commonly accepted vision of a "stack" it's a pretty thin slice. It's like saying "my over-engineered component library is a stack because it involves 15 layers of abstraction!".

Neither of these companies are focused on LLMs or AI, they're both just using this as AI dust to sprinkle on top of their products.

So which project is which here? Is Kujtim sst on github and is sst/opencode his project? Is opencode-ai/opencode the one that the two developers that went rogue made (if I understood the tweet correctly)? Or did I get it backwards?

> The original project, created by Kujtim, remains open source and active—with the full support of the team at Charm.

Anybody know where exactly this is hosted?

It's linked above (https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode)

From the repo:

This is the original OpenCode repository, now continuing at Charm with its original creator, Kujtim Hoxha.

Development is continuing under a new name as we prepare for a public relaunch.

Follow @charmcli or join our Discord for updates.

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