OpenCode in the Media
17 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
September 2026
Infostealers Target Claude, Cursor, Codex and Other AI Agents to Steal Credentials and Sensitive Data
Information-stealing malware is expanding its collection logic to target locally stored data from AI coding agents, including Claude, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Continue, and OpenCode. The shift puts developer credentials, Model Context Protocol configurations, prompt histories, project metadata, and
Kimsuky Hackers Use OpenCode AI Agent to Mass-Produce Phishing Decoys in LNK Attacks
Kimsuky has been observed using an AI agent to produce convincing phishing decoys at scale, then hiding malware inside Windows shortcut files. The latest activity shows how ordinary-looking documents can become the first step in compromise. The campaign begins with spear-phishing messages carryin
Kimsuky Uses OpenCode AI Agent and GitHub PATs in Operation GitPower Attacks
North Korea-linked threat actor Kimsuky has expanded its Operation GitPower activity with malicious LNK shortcuts, GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)-authenticated payload delivery, and AI-generated decoy documents linked to the OpenCode coding agent. Genians Security Center analyzed 13 malicious
August 2026
Everything we know about Z.ai, the Chinese company behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai revealed that mystery AI model Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash, which it had anonymously tested on OpenRouter and OpenCode.
Stealth Frontier Level AI Model Ox Alpha Appears on OpenRouter and OpenCode Free of Charge
Ox Alpha has emerged as a new frontier level AI mode
Nobody knows who built AI coding model Ox Alpha or where the code goes
An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted to building it. The model is listed as “Ox Alpha” and costs nothing for input or output tokens. OpenCode, an open-source terminal agent
Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents
Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An agent launched the ordinary way runs as you, which means
Most people pay $20 for Claude Code, but OpenCode Go is $10 and I can barely spend a dollar of it
Claude Code is a good deal, but OpenCode Go is an even better one.
June 2026
Best practices for AI in open-source work
Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use these tools, which it groups under the
Zed 1.7.2 has landed with updated OpenCode models, bug fixes and other improvements
Zed, the fast-rising contender to Microsoft's VS Code, has received its version 1.7.2 update, bringing additional OpenCode models such as M
OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup
About a year ago, Jay V stood in front of 30 developers at a DevTools Toronto meetup and showed them a terminal-based coding agent. No launch party. No Product Hunt campaign. Just a GitHub repo and a curl command.
I got a Crush on this new Terminal-based AI coding tool
OpenCode got the glow-up treatment
My favorite AI coding tool isn't OpenCode: it's something way better (and cooler)
Contrary to what you might think from its name, it has nothing to do with a Raspberry Pi SBC
May 2026
I benchmarked Claude Code and OpenCode on a heavy refactor: The reality of agentic CLI workflows
I benchmarked Claude Code and OpenCode on a heavy refactor: The reality of agentic CLI workflows
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins the show to discuss their explosive growth, the limits of AI coding tools, and why engineering judgment still matters.
I use OpenCode over Claude Code, and it's every bit as good
Beat-for-beat, feature-for-feature.
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