Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude
17 days ago
- #coding-assistant
- #LLM
- #privacy
- Octofriend is a coding assistant that works with OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible LLM APIs.
- It supports switching models mid-conversation and uses custom-trained ML models to handle tool call and code edit failures.
- Octofriend is compatible with GPT-5, Claude 4, GLM-4.5, and Kimi K2, among others.
- It manages thinking tokens effectively to ensure optimal performance.
- Octofriend has zero telemetry, ensuring privacy, and can be used with privacy-focused LLM providers.
- It can be run with `--unchained` to skip tool and edit confirmations.
- Octofriend looks for instruction files like OCTO.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md, merging rules from project-specific and global files.
- It supports integration with MCP servers for richer functionality, configurable via `~/.config/octofriend/octofriend.json5`.