ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

brcmthrowaway

Telemetry enabled?

aziis98

Is this GUI only?

7e

GLM-5.2 seems capable. It’s just much slower than Opus.

shayankh

how is this cheaper?

m3h

Z.ai documents integrations with nearly all the popular CLI-based agents: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/others If you're already used to your TUI coding agent, you don't need the desktop agent. Although it is nice that it is there for folks who prefer the Codex App/Claude App UI approach.

seizethecheese

I'm somewhat surprised that this is not open source (from what I can tell). Compare to Mimo Code https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (which is a CLI, while this is a desktop app).

paxys

UI-wise this looks a lot closer to Codex than Claude Code. It's basically an exact copy of Codex.

toddmorey

Does anyone use an agnostic TUI or harness for development tasks that can fairly seamlessly switch between providers? I'm wanting local context in the spirit of "here are 3 AI providers available, for coding tasks use this one... and for writing prose use this one... and for generating images use this one..." etc.

dizhn

This comes with a little bit of free credits. (after login)

KronisLV

Looks quite pretty! Not sure if I want to try that instead of OpenCode, maybe. OpenCode also has a desktop app, I will admit that I like their TUI one better (and honestly more than Claude Code TUI) but whole the desktop version is kinda more basic, it's nice enough: https://opencode.ai/download That said, it's interesting that they're releasing a bunch of stuff: ZCode, OCR.z.ai, Image.z.ai, Audio.z.ai, AutoClaw and some other stuff that https://chat.z.ai/ links to. That's a lot of stuff for one org to pull off. Figured I'd try out their Pro coding plan, seems like it doesn't necessarily give me that much quota than Opus (at least given how many tokens are needed for accomplishing a certain task), but GLM 5.2 in of itself seems like a beefier Sonnet model, pretty good.

esafak

I tried it but went back to OC, which feels smarter. It does have a 1.5x usage promotion for GLM 5.2 on the coding plan so now is a good time to test it...

unleaded

As someone who doesnt use these tools, why does every AI company need their own version of Claude Code? Is there more to it than vendor lock-in?

teravor

it's an electron app, it highlights wrong spelling but doesn't suggest corrections. how does someone exhibit so much incompetence?

d3Xt3r

For GLM Coding Plan subscribers, quota consumed via Coding Plan for GLM-5.2 in ZCode is discounted by the coefficients below — the same usage draws down less quota, roughly 1.5x the effective allowance. Peak hours (14:00–18:00 daily) 3x -> 2x Off-peak (remaining 20 hours) 1x -> 0.67x I wonder whether that is referring to local time, or CST (UTC+8)?

Aeroi

sweet! i'm heaviliy using glm 5.2 in mouse.dev which is great for mobile. the ui looks really good, similar to cursor agents window ect.

gck1

It's sad to see that the teams that have the most resources that can contribute to development of next-gen harnesses are essentially copying the same exact thing from each other, with no meaningful changes. And most of the advancement and experimentation happens in some random 0-star github repos.

swe_dima

Is it possible to use their subscription pricing with Opencode?

guybedo

if you're going to try this one out, don't be surprised to get this message repeatedly, like 4 out of 5 prompts you're trying to send, 24/7, this is gonna be your new friend, then you'll learn to write the only prompt that matters: "retry", "retry", "retry" Here's the message: "Cannot connect to API: write EPIPE"

maxloh

I don't find a closed-source Chinese agent system trustworthy. It is essentially a black box with full user permissions, meaning you are just handing over your entire system to a Chinese-owned server. With OpenCode and its GLM provider, at least I can monitor which files were read, which were edited, and what commands were executed. Not to mention that Chinese national security laws legally obligate companies to cooperate with state intelligence and counter-espionage efforts [0]. If you have this installed on a corporate workstation, and your company is large enough, the possibility of them spying on you is not just a risk—it's almost a certainty. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of_t...

Art9681

Yea not touching this with an any-foot pole. They are just keeping up with the Joneses now. There is no reason for this to exist but there IS a reason it is not open source. ;)