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Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude
An open-source coding helper. Very friendly! Contribute to synthetic-lab/octofriend development by creating an account on GitHub.
Correctly handling multi-turn responses, especially with thinking models like GPT-5 and Claude 4 (whose content may even be encrypted), can be tricky. But if you want to live dangerously, you can always run octofriend --unchained, and skip all tool and edit confirmations. Octo can do a lot out of the box — pretty much anything is possible with enough Bash — but if you want access to rich data from an MCP server, it'll help Octo out a lot to just provide the MCP server directly instead of trying to contort its tentacles into crafting the right Bash-isms.
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