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From:
Mike Larkin <mlarkin@nested.page>
Subject:
Re: [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)
To:
Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Cc:
David Uhden Collado <daviduhden@gmail.com>, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:39:32 -0700

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  • Mike Larkin:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)

  • Jose Maldonado:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)

  • joshua stein:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)

  • On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 09:55:36PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote:
    >
    >
    > On Wed, 1 Jul 2026, David Uhden Collado wrote:
    >
    > Hi David, thanks for taking a look.
    >
    > > Are there any plans to port opencode to OpenBSD as well? From a maintenance
    > > perspective, it seems like one of the more useful candidates because it
    > > supports models from many different providers instead of being tied to a
    > > single vendor.
    >
    > No I have no plans, but there's nothing stopping someone that wants to
    > tackle it. As I'm sure you're aware there's some history between opencode
    > and crush.
    >
    > crush supports many providers. (fire it up and the first prompt is to pick
    > your favourite provider). swival also supports many providers, but is a
    > more specialized agent.
    >
    > I have sent the ones that would be useful to me (codex is already in ports
    > and I use it too).
    >
    > >
    > > My concern is that importing many AI-agent CLIs could become expensive to
    > > maintain.
    >
    > I've put myself down as maintainer, I don't think it's very much burden to
    > be honest.
    >
    > claude will be frozen in time and can't be updated given the
    > discontinuation of the npm distribution.
    >
    > swival is mostly python which I can easily keep up with and crush is
    > self-contained go code.
    >
    
    I use crush all the time on openbsd with openrouter and local models. I had it
    on my list of things to do to make a port. I welcome this effort. Thank you.
    
    -ml
    
    
  • Mike Larkin:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)

  • Jose Maldonado:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)

  • joshua stein:

    [NEW] 3 AI coding agents: claude, crush & and swival (+ deps)