Daniel Dickman wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to import 3 AI coding agents that I've found useful. (Similar to
devel/codex which is from OpenAI and is already in the ports tree).
(1) devel/claude -- Anthropic's well known coding agent
This is the latest version that runs on OpenBSD. Newer versions
were moved off npm and are native-only unfortunately. So updating
beyond this version might be harder.
(2) devel/crush
A coding agent with a focus on a good looking
terminal UI.
(3) devel/swival -- Coding agent for doing security audits
This has has a few additional dependencies that also need to be
imported below.
devel/py-litellm -- uniform LLM provider API
textproc/py-tiktoken -- fast BPE tokenizer
devel/py-mcp -- Model Context Protocol SDK
security/py-fast-cipher -- fast AES cipher library
textproc/py-rank-bm25 -- BM25 ranking functions
One small note is that for swival to be imported we also need to update
py-rich to 15.0.0 and mark www/py-flask-limiter BROKEN as a result.
In turn this means we won't be able to build www/py-flask-appbuilder until
flask-limiter adds support for rich v15+.
I am ok with that tradeoff (I imported those 2 ports for superset which
itself is waiting on support for sqlalchemy 2+ to be rolled out).
ok to import these new ports?
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for working on these ports.
Are there any plans to port opencode to OpenBSD as well? From a
maintenance perspective, it seems like one of the more useful candidates
because it supports models from many different providers instead of
being tied to a single vendor.
My concern is that importing many AI-agent CLIs could become expensive
to maintain. These tools change very quickly, and in practice ports can
take a while to catch up when the maintainer does not have direct commit
access or when updates require repeated reviews.
This is not an objection to the imports you proposed. I just wonder
whether it would make sense to prioritize one provider-agnostic tool
like opencode, since that could cover more use cases with less long-term
maintenance burden.
Best,
David.
