opencode

Research notes about OpenCode, a coding tool that can work with several AI providers through a command-line program or a software interface. They describe how it starts, stores sessions, selects models, and runs in a project folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when configuring OpenCode, finding its executable, continuing a session, running prompts interactively or from scripts, choosing an AI model, or requesting structured JSON output.
Why use it?
They give developers a quick reference for OpenCode's setup and runtime behavior without requiring them to inspect the implementation first. This helps when connecting to it or troubleshooting how it runs.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent/opencode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.04276
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02138
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00855
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00428

Measured yesterday against content hash c1289d86728d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opencode scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

research/agents/opencode.md · 649 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 649 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenCode Research

Research notes on OpenCode's configuration, credential discovery, and runtime behavior based on agent-jj implementation.

Overview

  • Provider: Multi-provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, others)
  • Execution Method: Embedded server via SDK, or CLI binary
  • Session Persistence: Session ID (string)
  • SDK: @opencode-ai/sdk (server + client)
  • Binary Location: ~/.opencode/bin/opencode
  • Written in: Go (with Bubble Tea TUI)

CLI Usage (Alternative to SDK)

OpenCode can be used as a standalone binary instead of embedding the SDK:

Interactive TUI Mode

opencode                      # Start TUI in current directory
opencode /path/to/project     # Start in specific directory
opencode -c                   # Continue last session
opencode -s SESSION_ID        # Continue specific session

Non-Interactive Mode (opencode run)

opencode run "your prompt here"
opencode run --format json "prompt"   # Raw JSON events output
opencode run -m anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514 "prompt"
opencode run --agent plan "analyze this code"
opencode run -c "follow up question"  # Continue last session
opencode run -s SESSION_ID "prompt"   # Continue specific session
opencode run -f file1.ts -f file2.ts "review these files"

Key CLI Flags

Flag Description
--format json Output raw JSON events (for parsing)
-m, --model PROVIDER/MODEL Model in format provider/model
--agent AGENT Agent to use (build, plan)
-c, --continue Continue last session
-s, --session ID Continue specific session
-f, --file FILE Attach file(s) to message
--attach URL Attach to running server
--port PORT Local server port
--variant VARIANT Reasoning effort (e.g., high, max)

Headless Server Mode

opencode serve                        # Start headless server
opencode serve --port 4096            # Specific port
opencode attach http://localhost:4096 # Attach to running server

Read the full file on GitHub · 649 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 649 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c1289d86728d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

opencode is an agent published in the GitHub repository rivet-dev/sandbox-agent (1,551 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,276 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.