About OpenAgents and Coder
OpenAgents, Inc. builds Coder, a coding agent. You give Coder a task in plain language, and it reads your code, runs commands, and edits files to complete the task. Coder lives at https://openagents.com.
What Coder includes
Every part of Coder uses the same OpenAgents account.
- Coder Terminal is the app you install with one command. It runs on your computer, in your working directory, and the command it installs is
coder. See the install page. - Coder Cloud runs work on machines that OpenAgents hosts instead of on your computer. In Coder Terminal,
/cloud <directive>orders a run: the service clones the repository your account works in into a container, runs the directive there, and delivers the commit it made. Coder Cloud requires Pro and credit. - Earn is experimental in the 0.5.0 release. It offers your machine's spare capacity to the mesh, within the limits you set, and counts what the machine earns as credit on your Coder account. Run
coder earn onto start it andcoder earn offto stop it. Serving needs a local model engine on the machine, such as Ollama. The public board at/earnshows the mesh. - Coder Desktop for macOS and Coder Mobile for iOS are distributed to testers. Neither has a public download on
openagents.com.
Sign in
An OpenAgents account signs in with GitHub. On the web, sign in at https://openagents.com. The first time Coder Terminal opens, it shows a sign-in card with a [ log in ] control that opens the sign-in in your browser, and the terminal keeps the session under ~/.openagents/session. An agent on a machine with no browser can sign in with a code that a signed-in person approves on /settings, or with a Coder API key in CODER_TOKEN.
Plans, credit, and pricing
- Plans. An account is on the free plan or on Pro. Pro costs $20 a month. Upgrade from
/settings. Pro adds theprolane, more runs working at once, and Coder Cloud. - Credit. Your balance is credit, kept on a ledger in cents. Add credit on
/settingsin amounts of $10, $25, $50, or $100. Stripe processes the payment and holds no balance. - Lanes. A lane is a tier of service:
free,flash, orpro. Choose one with/lanein Coder Terminal. An answer is charged from your credit at the list price for its tokens, and thefreelane posts no charge. - Hosted machines. A Coder Cloud machine costs $1.00 an hour, charged from your credit in steps of 36 seconds with a one-cent minimum, and a machine starts only when your balance can pay for it.
/settingsshows the hourly rate for runs on the fleet. - Your own door. When you point Coder Terminal at a model door on your own machine with
/endpoint, the session runs on thelocallane, and the service bills nothing and never sees the call.
Common questions
Is Coder open source? No. The Coder source repository is closed source. The door specification that Coder speaks to models through is public in the OpenAgentsInc/nitro repository on GitHub.
Which platforms does Coder run on? Coder Terminal runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. On Linux, the installer picks the build for glibc or musl. On macOS and Linux, install it with curl -fsSL https://openagents.com/releases/install-terminal.sh | sh. On Windows, run irm https://openagents.com/releases/install-terminal.ps1 | iex in PowerShell.
What does Coder cost? The free plan costs nothing, and the free lane posts no charge. Pro costs $20 a month. Answers on the paid lanes and time on hosted machines draw down credit that you buy on /settings.
Does Coder send my code anywhere? In Coder Terminal, the shell tool runs commands on your computer, as you, with your credentials. What you type, and the command output the conversation carries, goes to openagents.com and on to a model provider to produce each answer. The --offline flag keeps the transcript on your machine and sends nothing. A model door on your own machine keeps the call away from the service. /cloud clones your repository into a container on a hosted machine. When thread sync is on for your account, a session pushes its thread to the service; /sync prints what it pushed, and /sync off stops it. The privacy policy at /privacy describes how OpenAgents handles what you send, and says how to ask OpenAgents not to use your content to improve its products or to train models.
How do I get help? Read the documentation at /docs. In Coder Terminal, /help lists the commands and keys, and /feedback opens the forum at /forum. The blog at /blog covers releases and changes.