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gamerdrome··on Show HN: Local-coder – Build a team of coding agents with local models
Thank you for the feedback!

I'll definitely look at adding both of those!

gamerdrome··on Show HN: Local-coder – Build a team of coding agents with local models
I thought I’d share this side quest I’ve been working on as it’s been a bit of fun.

It started when taking the train to work and regularly hitting internet dead zones, so I initially downloaded Ollama and OpenCode to see if I could keep building while offline.

The first iteration was an installer that worked out what models I could reasonably run locally (as I wasn’t really sure what my machine would be able to do).

After that, I kept running into cases where an agent would say it had completed a task with a detailed description of the changes it had made but the file hadn’t actually changed.

The project then expanded into an Orchestrator inside OpenCode. It decides how complex a task is and delegates parts of it to subagents, potentially using different local models. Depending on the task, agents can then explore, plan or research something before passing to a coding agent.

The coding agent updates then gets passed to a verifier and complex changes can also go through a separate reviewer.

So, for simple task:

Coder -> Verifier

or for something more complex:

Explorer -> Planner -> Coder -> Verifier -> Reviewer

There’s also a Researcher when more knowledge is needed.

It’s still an experiment as I’m not sure yet how far this approach can push smaller local models.