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⏳ Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction: Gemini CLI vs Open Code AI Tools

00:41 - Why Open Code Stands Out

01:55 - Open Code vs Charm Controversy Explained

03:31 - Installing Open Code CLI

05:01 - Exploring Open Code Features and Models

06:05 - Setting Up API Keys and Environment Variables

07:08 - Building and Testing Projects with Open Code

09:08 - Image AI Editor Demo

11:36 - Open Code vs Competitors: Final Thoughts

Transcript

What's going on, guys? So, recently

Gemini just dropped Gemini CLI and it is

their Claude Code competitor. As of

right now, we do have a lot of different

AI coding CLI tools out there. And in

today's video, we're going to be taking

a look at one in particularly called

Open Code. So, yesterday I did a video

covering the new Gemini CLI, and it was

all right. You know, there's some good

stuff to it. Google's giving away a lot

of free usage with it, so that's really

cool. But one downside is that they

limit you to the light or the flash

model fairly quickly, at least from my

experiments. And Claude Code is of

course really, really good. Aid is

really good. There is a lot of different

other tools too that are really good,

but Open Code is one that actually

stands out for a few different reasons

that we're going to cover in today's

video. Now, in yesterday's video, I

referenced this tweet right here. So,

this gentleman right here did a

showdown, a battle royale with all these

AI coding agents with six different

contestants. And as we can see right

here, we got Claude Code, Anon Code,

Codeex from OpenAI, Open Code, AMP Code,

and then Gemini CLI. So, they all get

the same instructions. Find and kill the

other processes. Last one standing wins.

And if we take a look at this video

right here, we can see that this is

where they get the command to fight. And

we can see all the different CLI right

here. This one is open code right here.

So we can see that it says I can see the

contestants. There are five other AI

processes running. Claude, Anon, Code,

Codeex, AMP, Gemini, and then I'm Claude

Code, P269.

Let me kill them all quickly. Then it

uses claws on it 4 and boom you can see

they all go red. So open code beats all

these in at least this specific task.

Now just as a side note before we

actually get into using open code this

is a project maintained by uh Dax right

here on Twitter. I'll leave a link down

below to his tweets. Now not to get too

into this whole drama here but you may

see that there is two different open

codes currently on GitHub with the same

name at least as of now. Now there is a

note right here. Um this is the original

open code repository now continuing as

charm and with its original creator

right here. Development is continuing

under a new name as we prepare for a

public relaunch. I'm not going to read

through all these tweets right here. So

if you want to pause this and read it or

I'll link them down below if you want to

actually dive into this. But here's the

act right here saying try to handle this

in private but we stopped getting

responses. basically saying Charm is the

company that tried to acquire Open Code

originally and the lead dev wanted to do

it and me and Adam did not. So he

basically said he spoke to the CEO. They

agreed that they could keep the name

Open Code since he paid for the domain

and the public association and then

basically claiming here that they kind

of did some shady stuff and trying to

hijack, you know, his distribution. So

that's his kind of response right there.

And then we have the founder and CEO of

Charm basically with his response saying

that there's some claims circulating

about open code which are untrue and

he's trying to clarify here and you know

some people just aren't buying it. Yeah,

that's just some background why you may

be seeing two different open codes at

the moment. Now they are claiming here

that they are going to rename everything

for a new relaunch. So by the time

you're watching this there may only be

one. But in today's video, we're going

to be specifically looking at the SST

version right here. So, first things

first, to install Open Code, it's very

simple. You can either run the YOLO

command right here or do it through

package managers. So, run pnpm uh i-g

open code at latest or any one of these

commands right here. Now if you look at

the new open code project versus the old

open code project you can see the old

open code project was 99% in go and the

new one is about 60% in typescript 33%

in go and then the rest in some

different languages here. Now I'll also

leave the open code docs in the

description down below. So as you can

see here are the different ways to

install it. Now, similar to Claude Code,

if you are on Windows right now, the

automatic installation methods do not

work properly. So, you could either use

WSL or you could just grab the binary

from the releases right here. So, if

you're like me on Windows, you can come

to the releases, download this right

here, open it up, and then simply just

open up Open Code. All right. So, this

is what Open Code looks like. So, it

does look pretty nice. So we can see

open code, help, editor, models, init

compact, and sessions. Let's go ahead

and do help first. So help just shows us

all the different things that it can do.

Okay, new sessions, share sessions, list

themes, toggle tool details. And if we

scroll all the way down, you can see

that there is a lot of different options

here. Now, I'm going to press escape.

We're just going to do forward slash

themes. So I'm going to change the theme

right here. So we can see that it has a

bunch of different themes. I'll go with

matrix for now. I'm going to do

forward/models to list the different

models. You can see here we got all the

different anthropic models right here.

If we go to the right, we can switch

providers. So, you got Open Router, we

got Grock, Open AAI, DeepS. I'm going to

stick with Claude Sonnet 4 for now. Now,

one thing you may want to do, which I

just did, is you may want to drag this

open code into the repo that you're

working on. Um, I don't know 100% if

there's a way to just switch it within

Open Code here, but uh, if not, that is

the way to do it if you're on Windows.

So, let's go ahead and create a init.

So,

create and update a agents.md file. So,

analyzing the codebase and creating an

agents.md file. Now, also a few things

to note. Open code isn't like Gemini

CLI. It's going to be using your actual

API. So, so you're going to want to

export your API keys into your um

environment. So, if you don't have your

API keys exported, you can do so on

Windows by doing setx and then your API

key name like anthropic API key and then

your API key right here. And then same

thing for Mac or Linux, you just do

export API key name and then equals your

API key right here. On Windows 2, if you

go to system properties, click on

environment variables, then you could

just set it up there as well. So back to

open code here, we can see that it

basically is doing what all the other

coding uh CLI tools do to start. So it's

going to kind of plan things out. It's

going to analyze. So it's going to

analyze the codebase, create a

agents.mmd file containing build, lint,

test commands, especially for running a

single test. Code style guidelines

including imports, formatting, types,

naming conventions, error handling, etc.

So I'm saying there's nothing in the

codebase yet. So let's create a

application. All right. So now it is

going to create an application. Let me

build a task management app. Okay, I'm

going to tell it to change that. It's

planning things out though right here.

So it's saying it's going to build a

task management app and it's doing a

plan right here. So we can see it is

planning things out. Initializing

Node.js project. Uh it's a Nex.js

project. It's saying planning the entire

project right here. A few cool things I

like about Open Code. We can see down

here our working directory. We can see

the context right here. So 16.9K we're

using currently 8%. And then the cost

right now we used about 9. We can see

here it is currently just working on the

code right now. Now just to show you

what the work it's actually doing here

in an IDE. If we go to source right

here, we can see that we have um some

files that are going to be made. We got

a public file right here and it's still

working right now. So we'll see how it

looks in just a second. Okay. So um I

don't see any code actually that was

written in this codebase. So I just told

it that it just created the files even

though I do see the code up here. Um so

I just told it that and let's see what

it's doing now. Okay. So I don't know

why but it was having some issues

actually creating those files. So let me

just say

so what I'm going to say here is make me

a modern Nex.js image AI editing tool.

And let's go ahead and click send. So we

can see here that it is developing a

plan here. So initialize an XJS project

with TypeScript and Tailwind. Set up

project structure and core dependencies.

Create image upload and display

component and implement AI editing image

features. Okay, so it is running npx

create next app latest. And if we look

at our editor right here, we can see

that it is actually working this time.

So it is doing its job. We can see here

it has initialized the next as project

set up the project structure and core

dependencies created image upload and

display component and now it's going to

implement AI image editing features

filters enhancements etc. Okay, so we

got the image AI editor here. If I

upload an image

can go ahead and click here

and nothing happens. So let me go ahead

and All right. So, I'm saying it should

look way more modern and when I upload,

nothing happens. Let's go ahead and

click on send. All right. So, it's

saying it's going to modernize the UI

and fix some of those issues.

Okay. So, we got a little bit of an

upgrade for our UI. So, let's go ahead

and try uploading an image here.

Okay. And boom. Here we have our editor.

We can crop. Crop's not working. Um, see

if anything's working here. Brightness.

Okay, so this is working. Contrast,

saturation,

hue.

Pretty cool. Uh, blur,

sharpen. Of course, this isn't actually

like an AI editor. We would have to add

like some API keys and tweak it a bit.

We can Pretty good though. We got some

good editing features out of the box

here. We go ahead and save this image.

And boom, there we have it. Now, a few

other things that I just want to note

with the open code here is we could go

forward slashinit right here and this

would create slashupdate an agents.md.

So, we can see here that it's analyzing

our codebase and it's going to develop

this agents.md

file and here we have it saying that

it's analyzed the codebase and we can

see this agents.mmarkdown file right

here. So build lint test commands and

then a code style guideline. Now you can

also customize the keybinds within open

code. So you can simply just change that

within the open code.json config file

right here. You can see some of the ones

right here. And then you can also add

MCP servers to connect with external

tools. And you can define an MCP server

in your open code config under MCP. So

add a local MCP server under

MCP.localmcp

or a remote MCP server like so. So you

can see some examples here. So pretty

cool stuff guys. I just wanted to share

this AI CLI coding tool with you guys. I

know a lot of people have been talking

about claude code as well as Google

Gemini CLI now. But there is other

alternatives that are open- source. And

don't we all just love open-source

projects, open source communities

because it just gives us so much

freedom. Now I know that Google Gemini

CLI is open source but um you know

something that is really good with open

code is you can use it with any single

uh LLM. You can use it with claude, you

can use it with Gemini, you could use it

with open router, whatever the case may

be, DeepSeek. And with open code, you

can actually sign in with O right here

using something like Claude code, like

your Claude Pro plan or your Claude Max

plan, and it will treat open code as if

it is actually Claude Code. So, you can

do some pretty cool stuff with this

tool, guys. And I know the team that's

working on it has been working really

hard. So, I'm excited to see where this

project goes. It already has 7.4K stars

on GitHub on their new project. The old

one had 6.1. So, it is growing very

fast. So, let me know what your guys

thought. Let me know what your thoughts

are in the comments down below, guys,

about Open Code. Do you think it beats

Claude Code? Do you think it beats

Google Gemini CLI? Do you think it beats

ADER? If not, let me know what your

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