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I concede that it is not precisely OSS. But if I tell someone that it is source-available, they will expect some kind of license restriction for any use. If I tell someone OSS, they will expect mostly what the Sentry license entails, unless they are a competitor, in which case I really don't care what they think.

I wish there were a popular term that conveys exactly how Sentry license works. But, there isn't - so I think it's fair to say open source, maybe as a general term. I'll change it from OSS to open source

Just like codex or opencode provide strong oss implementations of the core agent loop, our ambition (not achieved! hoping this is a solid start) is to provide a solid oss implementation of the context updating loop, memory, basic database + a backend sync layer. And evals + continual learning + gepa optimization.

Just like everyone can write their own agent, yet many opt for codex/claude code sdk/opencode, we think that at some point in our journey, many will also opt for standard implementations of these patterns, for projects big or small.

Realistically, though, the case for a standardized environment grows a lot stronger when you have multi-agent, permissioned actions, and generally just a lot more state than what you can get away with using only opencode + some glue. Insofar as big teams have ambitious products, they might be more likely to try it

From Sama "More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do"

Facts don't care about your feelings

At some point in the future (if not already), claude will install malware less often on average. Just like waymos crash less frequently.

Once you accept that installation will be automated, standardized formats make a lot of sense. Big q is will this particular format, which seems solid, get adopted - probably mostly a timing question

Something I'd consider a game-changer would be making it really easy to kick off multiple claude instances to tackle a large researched task and then to view the results and collect them into a final research document.

IME no matter how well I prompt, a single claude/codex will never get a successful implementation of a significant feature single-shot. However, what does work is having 5 Claudes try it, reading the code and cherry picking the diff segments I like into one franken-spec I give to a final claude instance with essentially just "please implement something like this"

It's super manual nd annoying with git work-trees for me, but sounds like your setup could make it slick