skein.json

{
  "$schema": "./skein.schema.json",
  "id": "opencode-skein",
  "name": "opencode-skein",
  "tagline": "opencode, tuned for people who run their own models.",
  "description": "A maintained fork of opencode that makes local LLM backends first-class: it finds them on your network, shows you exactly what fits in VRAM, and keeps long agent sessions running unattended.",
  "kind": "cli-fork",
  "partOf": "skein",
  "repo": "https://github.com/androidand/opencode",
  "homepage": "https://tantonet.se/skein",
  "install": {
    "curl": "curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/androidand/opencode/dev/install | bash"
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "id": "local-provider-autodiscovery",
      "title": "Local provider auto-discovery",
      "summary": "Finds Ollama, LM Studio and llama-swap (llama-skein) backends on your LAN via mDNS + port probing and offers them straight in /connect — no manual baseURL juggling.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "partial",
      "depends": ["llama-skein"],
      "tags": ["local", "providers", "discovery", "mdns"]
    },
    {
      "id": "context-window-display",
      "title": "Context window usage in the sidebar",
      "summary": "Live context-window bar: tokens used vs. the model's limit, a percentage, a token breakdown, throughput (tokens/sec), and cost for cloud providers.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "yes",
      "tags": ["tui", "context", "observability"]
    },
    {
      "id": "vram-ram-bars",
      "title": "Live VRAM/RAM usage bars",
      "summary": "For local models, a stacked memory bar showing model weights vs. KV cache against free VRAM/RAM — so you can see headroom before you blow past it.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "no",
      "depends": ["llama-skein"],
      "tags": ["tui", "local", "hardware", "vram"]
    },
    {
      "id": "ctx-size-dialog",
      "title": "Hardware-aware context-size picker",
      "summary": "An interactive dialog that recommends a context size from real KV-cache rate + free VRAM, with presets flagged when they'd exceed memory, and applies it to the local model.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "no",
      "depends": ["llama-skein"],
      "tags": ["tui", "local", "context"]
    },
    {
      "id": "loop",
      "title": "/loop scheduling",
      "summary": "Run a prompt or command on a schedule or until done — ralph-style iterate-until-complete, or interval/cron based, with list/cancel/pause/resume.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "yes",
      "tags": ["automation", "cli"]
    },
    {
      "id": "auto-reply",
      "title": "Intelligent auto-reply",
      "summary": "Keeps long sessions moving by auto-answering input prompts — static phrases, AI-to-AI continuation, or an external webhook/CLI hook.",
      "status": "beta",
      "upstreamable": "yes",
      "tags": ["automation"]
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-detection",
      "title": "Loop / repetition detection",
      "summary": "Detects when the agent is stuck repeating itself (string-similarity over a time window) and intervenes to break the loop.",
      "status": "beta",
      "upstreamable": "yes",
      "tags": ["automation", "safety"]
    },
    {
      "id": "themed-loading",
      "title": "Themed local-backend loading screens",
      "summary": "Bridges your active TUI theme to the local backend via an X-Loading-Theme header (e.g. pip-boy → vault-boy) for matching loading visuals.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "no",
      "depends": ["llama-skein"],
      "tags": ["tui", "local", "cosmetic"]
    },
    {
      "id": "fork-maintenance",
      "title": "Self-maintaining fork tooling",
      "summary": "A manifest-driven workflow (fork:verify, sync:check) that proves no fork feature is lost on upstream syncs, plus a fork-owned updater + release pipeline so the official updater can never overwrite the skein binary.",
      "status": "stable",
      "upstreamable": "na",
      "tags": ["meta", "maintenance"]
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "changelog": "CHANGELOG.md",
    "manifest": "fork/manifest.json",
    "docs": "FORK_WORKFLOW.md"
  },
  "updated": "2026-06-18"
}