This matches my expectations.
Now that its increasingly clear that writing MCP servers isn't a winning strategy, people need a new way to jump on the band wagon as easily as possible.
Writing your own agent like geminin and claude code is the new hotness right now.
- low barrier to entry (tick)
- does something reasonably useful (tick)
- doesnt require any deep ai knowledge or skill (tick)
- easy to hype (tick)
Its like “cursor but for X” but easier to ship.
Were going to see a tonne of coding agents built this way, but my intuition is, and what Ive seen so far, is theyre not actually introducing anything novel.
Maybe having a quick start like this is good, because it drops the value of an unambitious direct claude code clone to zero.
I like it.
I created a simple openagen at https://github.com/revskill10/openagent-cli