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Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Thought Claude models can only be used through Claude Code. I was wrong, I guess.

It's not allowed, it spoofs claude code's requests. https://github.com/patriceckhart/zot/blob/main/packages/prov...

Does it spoof the Bun authentication/signing? If not, this will eventually stop working once Anthropic cuts off access from versions of Claude Code that don't sign their requests.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing your experience with reasonix in detail. Have you tried pi? I don't think I am at your level, so I'd welcome some more advanced user's advice.

I have not tried pi! I heard of it, but I didn't look into it because Anthropic is cracking down on third-party harnesses by making them prohibitively expensive. I suppose though now that I have a DeepSeek API key due to Reasonix I can give it a shot. (even the pro model is so cheap!! I've been using it for days on multiple projects and have barely spent $1, and I think it can go much further with better prompting.)…

In 18min , Mario Zechner , the creator of pi will echo more or less your exact concerns as to why he developed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls

Enjoy !

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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post #18

Glad to see tooling in my native language. I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole, but sadly it seems to be the lingua franca for agentic tools. The one thing that would keep me from making the jump is CC’s auto mode.

> I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole Why not? Is it because you need to change the code?

No, I’m just extremely averse to anything to do with JS/TS. The amount of bloat is insane and there’s a new supply chain attack every day at this point. Definition of a tire fire.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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post #18

Glad to see tooling in my native language. I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole, but sadly it seems to be the lingua franca for agentic tools. The one thing that would keep me from making the jump is CC’s auto mode.

What's wrong with typescript? I was thinking of getting into it.

What language are you coming from? If I can do anything to stop you please tell me what that is.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole Why not? Is it because you need to change the code?

No, I’m just extremely averse to anything to do with JS/TS. The amount of bloat is insane and there’s a new supply chain attack every day at this point. Definition of a tire fire.

Yup - IMO it’s just the wrong tool for the job.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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I'm getting a little fatigued by all the harnesses that are made by other coding agents. Like, when I checked out opencode, it looked and felt incredibly impressive, until I looked at how frequently it completely invalidated the KV-cache. After looking at the source code, it's basically unsalvageable and I ran far far away. (It's mostly imperative garbage which is typical of undisciplined agent output. It doesn't eve…

Having just started out building my own harness because I don't like the others, I really resonate with this post. You probably should make a harness, it seems you've got a really good approach and a great understanding of what it should have.

I mostly still like Claude Code, but I agree it's getting buggy and bloated in their need to move so fast. With the June pricing changes I felt I needed to build an alternative quickly just in case, and so I can start looking at other models for my "claude -p" usage.

The videos from the makers of Pi are interesting with some useful information, but ultimately I came away deciding I would never want to use Pi.

It also helps that Pi & most harnesses don't work on a lot of older computers systems I'd like to be able to use a harness on. It's just API calls, there's no reason this shouldn't all work on much much older machines.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Zot seems interesting, this is the first time I see it. On a quickl look it seems like Pi, but in Go. I was hoping to embed Pi into some of our internal projects and the typescript stuff was blocking me, I'll definitely give Zot a look.

pi is awesome, quite possibly the best OSS tool out there. You should definitely give it a shot if it fits your stack. zot has become my daily driver. I didnt build zot to compete. I built it to really get a feel for how harnesses work, and I do it with Go simply because I love the language. More on that here: https://www.patriceckhart.com/blog/posts/2026-04-23/why-i-bu...

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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post #18

Glad to see tooling in my native language. I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole, but sadly it seems to be the lingua franca for agentic tools. The one thing that would keep me from making the jump is CC’s auto mode.

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Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have not tried pi! I heard of it, but I didn't look into it because Anthropic is cracking down on third-party harnesses by making them prohibitively expensive. I suppose though now that I have a DeepSeek API key due to Reasonix I can give it a shot. (even the pro model is so cheap!! I've been using it for days on multiple projects and have barely spent $1, and I think it can go much further with better prompting.)…

In 18min , Mario Zechner , the creator of pi will echo more or less your exact concerns as to why he developed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls Enjoy !

Good talk! I'm using Claude to clean up Pi a little bit before I try it (porting to PNPM is part of my standard startup checklist); I'm very excited to see how it goes!
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