tldr free, no api key needed, just curl bash and then have it help you set up your vm or fix a harness etc. think of this as a primitive harness that helps you bootstrap stuff. the long term hope is that most future unix like systems ship with something like an “llm” command. you have vi or nano on most systems, out of the box. curl and so on. so one day “llm” where you boot up and you have a basic, free, minimalist terminal harness that can bootstrap your system for you. it doesn’t need to be an erudite complex llm, but just a basic one that can do the basics. that’s the vision i have.
it’s completely free. the use case is if you have a fresh vm and want to skip having to type a bunch of apt install commands / setting up gh and so on. or if you have say opencode or pi but you broke your config. now you have a model that can help bail you out and repair stuff. no api key, it just uses a shared pool of free llms via open router. it’s basically a free minimalist coding harness with free llms to help “bailout” a bad config or a fresh vm into something more useable.
Ah, if in different repos that would map to different hives, so that would require switching between hives in the top left drop down. Still persistent, but not as streamlined as clones within the same repo / combs in same hive. I have been spoiled (?) by monorepos so that's why designed for this.
Yeah probably. Then again, opencode is not provider-specific && I prefer it to claude code (though I do use CC for personal stuff outside work because $$) and I missed their zen black or whatever the opencode $200 is.
Yeah, the idea is that you set up a repo for a project (the hive), and then once you have the hive, you can set up multiple combs (git clones, not workspaces) and work in parallel. Suppose you have like 3-5 issues / tickets you're working on - the idea is that you can do this in parallel, in isolated dirs, and jump between them in one place. I used to have to do this in tabs in zellij / sessions in tmux and remember which sessions is which issue / ticket. Also having to manually git clone everytime was annoying. So this is an abstraction to simplify this. Does that make sense?
Oh this is great, did not know about this but going to check it out. I like that it also has a little git thing on the right. Thank you for sharing this.