Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
92 points by mohshomis 21 hours ago | 18 comments

kelsolaar 18 hours ago
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Duplicake 10 hours ago
wow that's a really nice looking icon
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VerifiedReports 14 hours ago
Look out, you're going to get downvoted by the fact-averse.
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gbro3n 15 hours ago
This looks great. Building right into the editor looks like a solid way to go. I built "Agent Kanban" (anextension) for VS Code to enforce a similar "plan, tasks, implement" flow as you describe. That flow is really powerful for getting solid Agentic coding results. My tool went the route of encouraging the model via augmenting AGENTS.md and having the Kanban task file be markdown that the user and agent converse in (with some support for git worktrees which helps when running multiple sessions in parallel): https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-k...
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savolai 9 hours ago
I just posted something similar but with Obsidian Kanban plugin .md files:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659511

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cfontes 9 hours ago
Can subagents work on multiple branchs at the sametime (in a sandbox or some other way)?

This is a major pain atm with any IDE, they all fight over the same git cmd instance and make a mess out of it. I have a custom setup for this but would like some more integrated way of solving this.

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ElFitz 7 hours ago
Should be doable with worktrees. Claude Code has a flag for that, others probably do too.
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chrisweekly 6 hours ago
Yes, this; git worktree is a pretty standard solution, straightforward to leverage in any IDE or AI harness worth its salt.
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xkbear89 8 hours ago
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chappyasel 5 hours ago
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crefiz 8 hours ago
Why? Like legit question, did you do it for the academy or are you genuinely trying to add yet another (agentic) IDE into the market?
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lightbulbish 12 hours ago
A visual demo beyond entering an api key would be useful. A picture says a thousand words. I did not feel inclined to read all of the readme, but when i saw people here talking about mission control I went back one more time.
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lnenad 10 hours ago
Do you feel like you need a demo for yet another VSC vibecoded clone?
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simple10 16 hours ago
Really cool. I've been building a mission control system (multi agent orchestration) that follows very similar patterns of spec driven development, steering, and task management. Having this baked into an IDE is a great idea.

For observability, would be amazing to have session replay or at least session exploration built in. Kinda like git history but tied to tasks and tool use instead of file diffs.

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digitaltrees 14 hours ago
I have settled on the same approach as you except I have the agent create a roadmap.md in an /agile folder with numbered epics containing sprints, user stories and other context.
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neurworlds 8 hours ago
curious how Modo handles multi-file edits across a monorepo, that's where most tools fall apart for me
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jv22222 16 hours ago
How does modo help vs using a skill or claud.md that says to always do this?

Not a critique just giving you a chance to sell it :)

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moropex 12 hours ago
yeah this is my question too. a good CLAUDE.md with some structure goes a long way already
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esafak 19 hours ago
What did you learn?
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darshil2023 19 hours ago
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