It seems that much like Aider, you use separate models for creating code edits and validating them. That's a win in my book. It seems Claude Code does not do that, which is part of the reason it racks up a (relatively) large bill for long work sessions (that and the cost of sonnet-3.7).

I bounce back and forth between Aider, Claude Code, and Simon Willison's LLM tool ("just" a GOOD wrapper for using LLMs at the CLI, unlike the other two which are agent-y.) LLM is my favorite because I usually don't need/want full autonomy, but Claude Code has started to win me over for straightforward stuff. Plandex looks cool enough to throw into the rotation!

My main concern at this point is that I use a Mac and as far as I understand it Docker containers can have pretty poor performance on the Mac, so I'm wondering if that will carry over to performance of Plandex. (I don't use Docker at all so I'm not sure if that's outdated info.)

I spend hours everyday researching AI products. Why am I only hearing about plandex now? Looks very promising, I’ll give it a try. Please up your marketing game, the product looks solid!

This looks powerful and useful. Also, IMHO it's an exemplary "Show HN"; nice job w/ the description.

From the Github page: "curl -sL https://plandex.ai/install.sh | bash"

Enticing users to blindly run remote 3rd party code on their machines is IMHO not a proper thing to do.

This approach creates a dangerous mindset when it comes to security and good practices in general.

I noticed there's an example in the docs: plandex rm app/**/*.ts # by glob pattern.

However, looking at the code (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/app/cli/cmd/...), it seems you're using path/filepath for pattern matching, which doesn't support double star patterns. Here's a playground example showing that: https://go.dev/play/p/n8mFpJn-9iY

Nice! I tried it out when you launched last year but found it pretty expensive to use. I believe I spent $5 for half an hour of coding or so. Can you share what the typical costs are now, since the model prices have changed significantly?

Plandex was one of the first agentic style coating system to I tried several months ago, and it worked very well. But I've been using the cursor and windsurf style editors more recently because of their popularity. And their effectiveness is honestly pretty great.

Would you classify Plandex as more similar to a terminal interface like Claude Code? Also it looks like Open AI released a similar terminal based tool today. https://github.com/openai/codex

Do you see an obvious distinctions or pros/cons between the terminal tools and the IDE systems?

I like the idea but it did not quite work out of box.

There was some issue with sign-in, it seems pin requested via web does not work in console (so the web suggesting using --pin option is misleading).

I tried BYO plan as I already have openrouter API key. But it seems like default model pack splits its API use between openrouter and openai, and I ended up stuck with "o3-mini does not exist".

And my whole motivation was basically trying Gemini 2.5 Pro it seems like that requires some trial-and-error configuration. (gemini-exp pack doesn't quite work now.)

The difference between FOSS and BYO plan is not clear: seems like installation process is different, but is the benefit of paid plan that it would store my stuff on server? I'd really rather not TBH, so it has negative value.

This looks great!

With the self-host option, it’s not really clear through the docs if one is able to override the base url of the different model providers?

I’m running my own OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex and Bedrock compatible API, can I have it use that instead?

CLI interfaces are not where it's at for this stuff.

What makes Cline the king of codegen agents right now IMO (from a UI/UX perspective) is how well they handle displaying the code, opening files, and scrolling the cursor as it changes. Even in a fully autonomous agentic flow, you still really want to be reading the code as it is written, to maintain context and keep steering it correctly. Having to go back and look at a huge diff after all of your updates is a real pain and slows things down.

Have you considered adding LSP support? I anticipate go-to-defintion/implementation and go-to-usages being pretty useful via MCP or function calling. I started doing this for an internal tool a while back (to help with understanding some really poorly written Ruby) but I don't find any joy in coding this kind of stuff and have been hoping for someone else to do it instead.

> It has an effective context window of 2M tokens, and can index projects of 20M tokens and beyond using tree-sitter project maps (30+ languages are supported). It can effectively find relevant context in massive million-line projects like SQLite, Redis, and Git.

Does this possibly have non-coding-related utility for general reasoning about large volumes of text?

Really cool! Looking forward to checking this out.

I really like my IDE (PHPStorm) but I want Cursor-like functionality, where it’s aware of my codebase and able to make changes iteratively. It sounds like this is what I need?

Excited to give this a go, thanks for sharing.

Btw one of the videos is private.

Interesting to see that even with these type of tools coding it takes 8 months. That is not the general impression people have of ai assisted coding. Any thoughts on how you could improve plandex to bring down 8 months to 1 month or less?

Congrats on the V2 launch. Does Plandex support MCP? Will take it for a test drive tonight.

Awesome to see you're still at it. v2 looks great, I will take it for a spin.

Have you tested any local models through ollama? Did any work good enough to recommend?

CLI is the worst possible interface for coding llms. Especially for "larger" projects.

I think you should have put the "terminal-based" qualifier in the title and lede.

The link in the README.md to "local-mode quickstart" seems broken.

How efficient is it in constructing context?

we cooked?

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