Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, the most popular tools out there. Introduction I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, and I was really impressed by the "fire and forget" way of doing things. You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduced limits for everyone on the 20$ subscription plan, I've moved to Codex because limits were more reasonable. After a month of Codex, I've started exploring other tools. OpenCode OpenCode ( https://opencode.ai/ ) is a OSS agentic coding tool similar to claude code and codex, and it has similar features like plan mode, MCP server support, AGENTS.md, and SKILLs support. The amazing thing about it is that it supports almost every AI Provider that's out there, and it also supports running local LLMs.…