alt.hn

8/21/2026 at 4:47:15 PM

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

 https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate

by pablo24602

8/21/2026 at 5:54:52 PM

How does this compare to https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code or https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo?

Is there a good resource indexing all the coding agent tools / harnesses? Every awesome list I've found so far seems very incomplete, but I'm sure its impossible to keep up.

My daily drivers are still:

- exe.dev + Shelley + terminal multiplexer (https://zmx.sh/ or tmux) + `codex` CLI - Conductor.build

I would love an open source solution with nice desktop / web / mobile / remote options and notifications, but seems like it could be a while before things settle down and the "winners" emerge?

by nzoschke

8/23/2026 at 3:55:48 AM

Loving openchamber.dev. I have a server set up on a spare, I can run it locally or against the server from my Mac, and I can access the server from my iPhone using the mobile app. Which also lets me drop into terminal.

by browningstreet

8/21/2026 at 9:26:31 PM

how are you liking shelley?

haven't really tried shelley much yet, I've been interacting with exe.dev over SSH and then claude cli with my sub once I'm ssh'd in. Next step I've been procrastinating is tailscale on my exe VM and mosh on the tailnet address.

by chradams

8/21/2026 at 5:47:16 PM

I’ve been looking for an opensource/self hostable Cursor for the last few weeks. I tried this, OpenHands, Opencode Manager and Paseo.

I couldn’t get Proliferate to run on my PC and be controlled on my Mac/iphone. It was frustrating to set up and the docs confusing.

Paseo on the other hand was very easy to get working and docs clear. I very highly recommend it as a solution in this space. I am not affiliated at all with this project.

by kgrax01

8/21/2026 at 5:56:53 PM

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by pablo24602

8/21/2026 at 6:31:44 PM

I tried setting up opencode for the server, but it just won't persist my conversations. Hows the mobile/client access on this? Claude remote works well... for Claude... but I havent seen anything comparable open source.

edit: tmux + terminal harness is my current go to

by ArtRichards

8/21/2026 at 6:43:34 PM

Great question!

I also haven't seen comparable remote control functionality in open source tools- even in the closed source world, Codex and Cursor are in my experience the only very stable remote control experiences right now.

As for Proliferate, we don't currently support mobile access as a first class feature- we have a beta version available but don't want to release to GA yet as we're trying to match the above Codex / Claude quality and stability bar first.

by pablo24602

8/21/2026 at 5:32:27 PM

Friendly ask: get the windows exes codesigned

by shukantpal

8/21/2026 at 5:55:03 PM

We're on it! Apologies for the poor Windows experience in the meantime.

by pablo24602

8/21/2026 at 6:26:13 PM

Does each harness keep its native auth and subscription, or do requests eventually route through you?

by MahyadGhassemi

8/21/2026 at 6:59:15 PM

you keep the native auth and subscription, so you can use your Claude Code plan or any credits you have as well as existing auth methods

by tairabun

8/21/2026 at 5:40:42 PM

The open-source route makes a lot of sense here. So excited!

by digscanlon

8/21/2026 at 6:56:15 PM

glad to hear. we have a lot on the roadmap to be excited about!

by tairabun

8/22/2026 at 1:23:32 AM

opencode already covers basically every model and provider. what's the case for putting another layer on top of it?

by jobello

8/21/2026 at 6:20:49 PM

why would someone use this tool over Codex? Can't I use Codex with any model?

by rajit

8/21/2026 at 6:39:01 PM

nope, codex only works with openai models. Proliferate wraps around harnesses (codex, claude code, etc.) so Proliferate would be a strict superset of Codex in that sense.

by tairabun

8/21/2026 at 9:11:43 PM

ooo, nice Workflows feature you got there.

yoink

by 2001zhaozhao

8/22/2026 at 8:58:30 AM

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by modelhub_dev

8/21/2026 at 8:42:10 PM

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by maestroquirk

8/21/2026 at 5:00:58 PM

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