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Discussion on: Ran out of Cursor tokens and switched to GitHub Copilot: Side-by-Side

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Maxim Saplin

I use OpenCode quite often, even created a skill to launch resumae subagents powered by OpenCode. CLI tools are great if you want to build your own pipelines for sure. In terms of general use, see no major difference in capability, be it GUI or TUI. Question of preference and token availability

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MaxxMini

Good point about GUI vs TUI being mostly preference — I agree there's no fundamental capability gap anymore. OpenCode looks interesting, hadn't seen the resumable subagent pattern before. How do you handle context window limits when your subagents are working on larger codebases? That's been my main pain point with CLI agents — they burn through tokens fast on big repos even with good .clinerules or AGENTS.md scoping.

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Frankly I have not seen subagents to ever overflow context, that's not that easy, did multiple attempts and still exploring long-horizon subagents orchestration: github.com/maxim-saplin/hyperlink_...

So far implementations I saw (runSubagent tool in GH and task in OpenCode) do simple request/response disposable dialogs where an agent sessions is started and than the main agent spinning the subagent only cares about the final result.