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ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by dev_l1x_be »

bredren wrote: post #61
toddmorey wrote: post #15

Does anyone use an agnostic TUI or harness for development tasks that can fairly seamlessly switch between providers? I'm wanting local context in the spirit of "here are 3 AI providers available, for coding tasks use this one... and for writing prose use this one... and for generating images use this one..." etc.

I’ve written a skill for codex and Claude code that designates an orchestrator on the primary worktree and is agnostic about what type of AI workers are on the N supporting worktrees. The orchestrator knows which AI client is running in any given worktree, so it would be fairly easy to designate which AI should receive what kind of tasks. You run either Claude or Codex in tabs for each work tree. I do have some AI TU…

Is this open source?

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by raphinou »

nicoty wrote: post #290
SwellJoe wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't even know what I would do with a desktop app. I'm running these things in headless VMs, so I can run them with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` or whatever. I don't trust them, even without that flag, on my desktop/laptop.

I've contributed to https://github.com/0xferrous/agent-box which allows you to bind-mount git repositories into containers that agents operate in, preventing the agents from accessing files that aren't bind-mounted. Your usual .gitignore can then be used to also ignore files within the repo to be bind-mounted, which prevents agents from accessing them at all, essentially working as a sandbox. I also maintain https://…

In case anyone is interested, I'm also using bash scripts to run my agents in containers. It's simple, but has only bash and docker as dependency: https://github.com/asfaload/agents_container

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by LaurensBER »

bermudi wrote: post #218
LaurensBER wrote: post #38

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They might be sending some user requests to Anthropic to gather trading data for their own models. If they do so, perhaps they need to add some tracer to request that they prefer to hide.

I wonder if you're as cynical and untrustworthy of American companies as well or is it more of a racism kinda thing

This is an extremely weird comment that doesn't add anything to the conversation.

Here on HN we discuss facts, jumping straight into racism has no place here.

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by LtWorf »

switchbak wrote: post #132
dakolli wrote: post #115

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There's no way to safely use SOTA LLMs if privacy, and IP protection are your concern. Unless you want to spend 100k+ to host a 1T param model. Even if you use OpenCode you're sending all that information to random data centers you know nothing about. But yes, US intelligence has killed and ruined the lives of far more people than China has. Not sure how so many people buy into the narrative that they're protecting f…

"US intelligence has killed and ruined the lives of far more people than China has" - please provide a strong argument for this statement, with numbers and sources. I'm no apologist for the US Intelligence and related organizations (not by a very long shot), but that is a very extreme statement to make.

You know what's happening in Cuba right now?

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by lelanthran »

saghm wrote: post #56
seizethecheese wrote: post #11

I'm somewhat surprised that this is not open source (from what I can tell). Compare to Mimo Code https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (which is a CLI, while this is a desktop app).

Given that there's such severe concern being expressed by Anthropic about Claude being distilled, and the idea that the harness is part of the the moat, it doesn't seem super surprising that the other side of that would try to also make it harder for them to tell how well they're doing and what their approach is.

> and the idea that the harness is part of the the moat,

That idea is wrong, though. These same people thinking harnesses are part of a moat are also boasting that s/ware is easily writable now.

There's no secret sauce in a harness that you can't vibe-code into your own harness.

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by LtWorf »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #197
ai_fry_ur_brain wrote: post #196

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How many Russians, Palestinians, Afghanis, Libyan, Sudanrse, Somalian, Syrians, Iranians and Yemenis people do you think US intelligence has contributed to killing over the last decade? Or are those not people to you? China doesn't go around the world using it's military to force it's will upon people. Every decision the US military, or State Department makes is a product of US intelligence The foundation of US Intel…

> China doesn't go around the world using it's military to force it's will upon people. No, they use it on their own people. Come on, the USA is bad, but comparing it to China isn’t going to show the contrast you are looking for.

I see the USA propaganda is working.

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by LtWorf »

ianm218 wrote: post #244
blitzar wrote: post #129

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> if you decide to go to China one day they might already have all the data PRISM ... XKeyscore ... > The US is certainly inching in that direction Itching to go in a direction that (publicly known) they have been in for decades now.

The US government is no saint in terms of mass surveillance but there is a gigantic gulf between US governments mass surveillance and China, I think to act otherwise is a bit disingenuous.

At this point i think the china mass surveillance was propaganda while the USA one is for real.

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by iberator »

maxloh wrote: post #51

I don't find a closed-source Chinese agent system trustworthy. It is essentially a black box with full user permissions, meaning you are just handing over your entire system to a Chinese-owned server. With OpenCode and its GLM provider, at least I can monitor which files were read, which were edited, and what commands were executed. Not to mention that Chinese national security laws legally obligate companies to coop…

NSA can also legally force companies to spy. Secret spy courts and gag orders are a thing.

Actually there are more such cases against the USA than China in public.

Re: ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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Post by LuD1161 »

SwellJoe wrote: post #29
seizethecheese wrote: post #11

I'm somewhat surprised that this is not open source (from what I can tell). Compare to Mimo Code https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (which is a CLI, while this is a desktop app).

I don't even know what I would do with a desktop app. I'm running these things in headless VMs, so I can run them with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` or whatever. I don't trust them, even without that flag, on my desktop/laptop.

Might wanna check out https://github.com/LuD1161/agentjail - policy guardrails for coding agents.

shameless self-plug. I've been dogfooding it for the last 3 weeks now.

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