Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for VSCode
Details
- External ID
- 49251269
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for VSCode
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3125
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- coding agent interfaces and environments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source coding agent for vscode
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building an open-source coding agent extension for VS Code using existing LLM APIs and language model tool calling is a standard integration project achievable via vibe coding.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1547 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1020 of 1548 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Zot · hn · 2026-05-29 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- VT Code · hn · 2026-05-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Loom, an open-source delivery harness for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- ctx, a hackable desktop workbench for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Hazzel · hn · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- ZCode · github · 2026-09-20 · 6686 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- CalcKernel-VSCode · github · 2026-09-27 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.