OpenCode Hit 140K Stars. Why Terminal Agents Won 2026.

140,000 stars. 850 contributors. 11,000 commits. 6.5 million developers using it every month. Zero IDE integration. OpenCode is a terminal coding agent. It runs in your shell. It has no VS Code extension, no JetBrains plugin, no web UI. When it launched in March 2025 as a Go-based alternative to Aider and Cline , the conventional wisdom was that terminal-only was a deliberate niche — the kind of thing a few vim users would love and the rest of the market would ignore. The rest of the market did