r/opencodeCLI rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who use OpenCode, which is an open-source CLI TUI for coding assistance built in Go and TypeScript. The public description says the sub exists for sharing resources, discussions, and tips around the tool. It also tells us OpenCode supports multiple providers, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and local models, so people here care about getting coding help from different AI setups through a terminal. The rules add a second theme, vibe coding, which means posts about building software with AI assistance fit here too. In practice this is a room of developers and tinkerers who swap tips about a specific tool and the broader habit of coding with AI.

There are only two published rules here, and both decide whether your post survives. The first is “posts should talk about opencode/vibe coding”, and it says every post that does not remotely talk about that will be removed. The second is “no low effort/ low quality post”, and it says if a mod feels a post is low quality or low effort, he will remove it. Notice that neither rule mentions promotion, links, or AI content, so the evidence does not tell us where this community stands on those. What the evidence does tell us is that relevance and effort are the two gates your post has to pass.

Start with relevance. Your post has to talk about OpenCode or vibe coding, and ideally both, because that is what rule 1 demands. A good shape is a real writeup of how you use OpenCode in your workflow, like a config you tuned, a provider comparison you ran, or a task you completed faster with it. If you built something on top of OpenCode or with it, show the thing and explain the choices you made, with enough detail that a developer could learn from it. Put visible effort into the post, because rule 2 lets a mod remove anything that feels low quality or low effort. If you are promoting your own product, the honest path is to share it as part of a genuine OpenCode or vibe coding story, and to say plainly that it is yours. Detailed, specific, and useful beats polished and vague here.

The clearest way to get removed is posting something that does not talk about OpenCode or vibe coding at all. A generic post about your SaaS, your marketing results, or AI in general will not remotely qualify, and rule 1 says it gets removed. The second trap is low effort. A bare link, a one-line question you could have googled, or a thin announcement with no substance can be removed if a mod feels it is low quality. Since the rules do not spell out what counts as promotion, the safe read is that any promotional post still has to clear both bars, meaning it must be genuinely about OpenCode or vibe coding and it must carry real effort.

This is one of the rare subs where the whole rulebook fits in two sentences, and both sentences are about substance. I like that rule 1 names vibe coding right next to OpenCode, because it tells you the room cares about the practice, not just the tool. With no top posts to learn from, I would start with a detailed writeup of my own OpenCode setup and let the response tell me what this crowd values.