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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by siscia »

I just made an app that read GitHub issues. If they have a specific tag, the agent in the background creates a plan.

If they have another tag, the agent in the server creates a PR considering the whole issue conversation as context (with the idea that you used the plan above - but technically you don't have to.)

If you comment in the PR the agent start again loading your comment as context and trying to address it.

Everything is already in git and GitHub, so it automatically pick up your CI.

It seems simpler, but I am sure I missed something.

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by kzahel »

Will you add remote / a mobile control plane? I love your approach of using CLI. https://yepanywhere.com/ has a similar approach but it's mainly about access via mobile. [I'm frequently away from my desk]

Ah, actually after looking at your approach, I see you don't use any agent SDK or --json outputs. You just embed a terminal window. That makes mobile interfaces a non-starter. I can see why you are only focusing on desktop, it makes integrating with more providers easier.

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by Bishonen88 »

Custom AI tools like these have an uphill battle to fight. Automaker[0] from webdevcody is an example of that. He, together with some other folks created an open source Agentic Coding tool (for the lack of a better term), which gained popularity on github. He was advertising/showcasing it on streams etc. A few weeks in, he posted a video[1] where he speaks about why he's not using it himself anymore and went back to Claude Code, which over time receives tools/skills/mcps/whatnot and is in the terminal which we're all familiar with.

I made similar experience. Downloaded all sorts of tools, IDE's for the new era of development. Other than claude code in cli and occasional uses of codex (because have free tokens), nothing else stuck. I can just split my terminal effortlessly how many times I want, write/speak to the terminal with any custom request etc. And once someone comes up with a clever idea on top of what claude has today, I reckon they'll add it one way or another within the next weeks.

bayesian curve meme fits here rather well:

- claude code for everything, custom IDE's/tools, claude code for everything.

[0] https://github.com/AutoMaker-Org/automaker [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_t78QcueA&t=382s

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by kzahel »

onecommit wrote: post #13
redrove wrote: post #11

Is this another VSCode fork? I can’t tell from the readme.

Not in its purest sense! We're using the monaco editor for file editor and diffs, but other than that no VScode included. The file editor is really a secondary view inside of Emdash. The focus is on the chat with the coding agent. We'll make this more clear in the readme. Thanks for the feedback!

Judging from the installer sizes it's electron, not tauri?

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by touristtam »

I've tried to load tasks that were refined locally, but that turned into a bunch of shell scripts to access the local DB. Will you support that until you provide a way to do the planning phase in the UI?

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Also I've loaded 78 tasks and the UI is crawling to a halt

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