I’m the founder and CEO of Charm. There are claims circulating about OpenCode which are untrue, and I want to clarify what actually happened.
In April, Kujtim Hoxha built a project called TermAI—an agentic coding tool built on top of Charm’s open source stack: Bubble Tea, Lip
We built Crush on years of open-source work and a single vision: a fast, powerful AI coding assistant that feels like a video game.
In four days it hit ⭐️7k on GitHub and climbed to sixth on OpenRouter. Here's how it came to be, and why its moment is now.
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This is what design by committee looks like
Other good stuff in this release:
• Major improvements for terminals in JetBrains products (IntelliJ, PyCharm, Goland, etc.)
• Big improvements to models on @openrouter
• Better support for local models
And so many other things. So much more on the way, too.
We’re working hard on Crush every day. We've enhanced the UI to show incorrect LSP and MCP server settings for a more seamless configuration experience with Crush. This is all built in public on GitHub and is available in the latest release alongside other enhancements 💖
$HOME is in the terminal. Now your new coding bestie is available in whatever terminal emulator you use. Crush is a high performance, agentic coding tool built with Charm libraries and the quirky, playful aesthetic that you know and love.
This is just the beginning, too.
Last week we, the @charmcli team, gracefully executed 8 open source software releases and absolutely crushed 👉 @aymanbagabas@caarlos0@sudobunni
An open source tour de force!