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A bit tired of spending $200 out-of-pocket for openai. What do you use as harness? (for me the harness if half of the benefit... controlling my PC, working from phone, etc.)

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https://omp.sh/ has amazing defaults and it sips tokens. Works really well with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

Use the model through a fast and reliable provider such as Fireworks directly, skip OpenRouter.

Did you ever try pi by itself? For those new to the pi ecosystem - any rationale to go with pi vs omp?

It's like choosing between vim and helix. I started my career with vim in the early 2000's, customized the whole thing and had my config in a version control.

Then I installed helix and I just use it without config.

If you like configuring things take pi, if not omp is pretty much great defaults.

I use Claude Code + eternal terminal + tailscale + tmux + some custom skills to get notifications through nfty.sh.

I get the same UX on every platform, works perfectly on very low bandwith environments such as in a cabin, in the subway or in the middle of nowhere.

I tried using other harness such as Pi and opencode but I did not like them. If Claude Code gets weird I can swap in an instant.

You just need to follow this guide and disable artifacts in Claude Code's config: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

I’m curious about your use of Tailscale, is that for you to reach a local LLM remotely from anywhere?

I have a big beefy desktop at home which I ssh (using EternalTerminal instead of raw port 22) into. I built it last summer right before the prices got very expensive. It's headless so I use a cheap Macbook Air to connect to it at home and I use Termux on my phone to continue working from everywhere.

Dude prompt your agent to set up always on remote connections via systemd… then you can drive from Claude or codex mobile apps natively over their native hookup. Works great.

I don't want to rely on Claude of Codex mobile features at all. Also none of this works when you use third party LLMs which is what the current comment tree is about.

This. There's so many better ways to drive a fleet of agents this way than using "remote" features of which I don't trust, anyway.

What makes it run well on low bandwidth environments? Is it eternal terminal? (I am not familiar with that).

I found that ssh is pretty bad in these scenarios, so my usual herdr over a phone doesn't always work properly.

Now I'm using paseo which in principle solves my issues properly, but unfortunately it's "reconnection" and state sync is pretty slow (probably going over their servers).

Yes Eternal Terminal has been a godsend for bad connectivity and switching networks.

The other part is that since SSH only sends the changes on the screen, it uses very little bandwidth.

Try Eternal Terminal it's very easy to setup and is just a simple layer over SSH.

My main gripe is latency. Typing out letters with bad connectivity is very error prone - a native text box is all I would need, but I will give it a try.

I have a server living in my home office, always on. I have a tmux session on it with vanilla Codex and Claude Code CLI, I can via my Ubiquiti network stack wiregaurd in to this box anywhere on the globe with just my laptop. Works super well for me. I also have some cheap shelley power plugs that I can use to cycle my PC’s power state if needed.

This is basically my setup but I'm using tailscale and zellij. I don't have any contingency plan in place for my power or home internet going down though..

I used to do the same but being unable to copy/paste easily, follow links, upload files, etc led me to write a small bridge so I can turn Github issues into my harness frontend:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony

Now I chat with OpenCode/Pi over Github issues, which is a miles better experience.

OpenCode works nicely for me. You can connect it to the DeepSeek platform with an API key.

I use pi.dev, it is pretty minimal, but you can extend it however you want since agent has access to it's own documentation.

I use crush (https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush) with the following patches:

  curl https://tg.st/u/0001-fix-unblock-all-commands-in-bash-tool.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0002-feat-add-light-theme-with-auto-detection-for-white-b.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0003-feat-enable-yolo-mode-by-default.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0004-fix-disable-mouse-grabbing-to-restore-native-termina.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0005-feat-skip-project-init-prompt-and-quit-immediately-o.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0006-feat-remove-scrambled-rune-animation-from-waiting-sp.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0007-feat-remove-quit-banner-and-thank-you-message.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0008-feat-show-output-in-full-instead-of-collapsing-trunc.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0009-fix-discover-map-model-features-advertised-by-v1-mod.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0010-feat-keep-large-and-small-model-selections-in-sync.patch | git am

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