Dispatch

A multi-agent dashboard built on top of OpenCode, the open source AI coding agent.

Fork notice: This project is a fork of opencode (MIT License, Copyright 2025 opencode). It is not built by the OpenCode team and is not affiliated with them. See LICENSE for the full license text.

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What is Dispatch?

Dispatch replaces OpenCode's single-session TUI with a multi-agent dashboard and adds the Claude Agent SDK as a backend for routing Anthropic API requests, authenticating with your existing Claude Code subscription. The Vercel AI SDK is retained for other providers.

Features added in this fork

Agent Dashboard (home screen)

• Table view showing all active agents with columns: #, Name, Status, Activity
• Agent registry backed by a KV store, decoupled from sessions
• Keyboard-driven workflow:
  • a -- create a new agent (spawns a new session)
  • j/k or arrow keys -- navigate rows
  • Enter -- open an agent's session
  • d -- remove agent from dashboard
  • x -- delete worktree and all agents in that directory
• Live status per agent: Working (with spinner), Retrying, Waiting for user, Approve (y/n)
• Inline permission approval: y to allow, n to reject pending tool-use requests directly from the dashboard
• Detail row showing tool request context (bash command, diff preview, glob patterns)
• Activity summary showing +additions -deletions files from the session

Claude Agent SDK backend

• Added @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk for routing Anthropic API requests (Vercel AI SDK retained for other providers)
• Uses your existing Claude Code login (API key or subscription auth)
• SDK owns the tool loop and execution (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep)
• App owns TUI rendering, permission UI, message persistence, and auth
• Bridge architecture documented in packages/opencode/AGENTS.md

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Installation

Option 1: curl (recommended)

Installs a pre-built binary for your platform to ~/.dispatch/bin/dispatch and adds it to your PATH:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DemonicEgg/Dispatch/claudesdk/install | bash

To install a specific version:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DemonicEgg/Dispatch/claudesdk/install | bash -s -- --version 0.1.0

Then run from any directory:

dispatch
dispatch ~/Documents/workspace

Option 2: Build from source

Requires Bun v1.3.11 or later. Clones, builds, and installs to ~/.dispatch/bin/dispatch:

git clone https://github.com/DemonicEgg/Dispatch.git
cd Dispatch
./install-from-source

To update, pull the latest changes and rerun:

git pull && ./install-from-source

Option 3: Development mode

Runs the TypeScript source directly via Bun without a build step:

git clone https://github.com/DemonicEgg/Dispatch.git
cd Dispatch
bun install
bun run dev
bun run dev ~/Documents/workspace

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Usage

Database note

The built binary and bun run dev use separate SQLite databases by default (opencode.db vs opencode-local.db). To share the same database as dev mode:

OPENCODE_DB=opencode-local.db dispatch

Common Options

These flags work with both bun run dev and the built binary:

Flag	Description
[project]	Path to project directory (positional arg)
--model, -m	Model to use in the format provider/model
--continue, -c	Continue the last session
--session, -s	Session ID to continue
--help, -h	Show help
--version, -v	Show version

Subcommands

Dispatch also supports subcommands for headless/non-interactive use:

# run a single message non-interactively
bun run dev -- run "explain this codebase"

# run in a specific directory non-interactively
bun run dev -- run --dir ~/Documents/workspace "explain this codebase"

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Configuration

Dispatch respects the same configuration system as OpenCode. Config files use JSON or JSONC (JSON with Comments) format and are merged together, with later sources overriding earlier ones.

For full documentation see the OpenCode configuration docs.

Config File Locations (by precedence)

Priority	Source	Location
1	Remote config	.well-known/opencode endpoint (organizational defaults)
2	Global config	~/.config/opencode/opencode.json
3	Custom config	Path specified via OPENCODE_CONFIG env var
4	Project config	opencode.json in project root
5	Directory configs	.opencode/ subdirectories (agents/, commands/, plugins/, etc.)
6	Inline config	OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT env var

Key Configuration Options

• model -- Main LLM model (e.g., "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5")
• small_model -- Lightweight model for tasks like title generation
• provider -- Provider configuration with timeout/cache settings
• disabled_providers / enabled_providers -- Control which providers are available
• tools -- Configure which tools the LLM can access (write, bash, edit, etc.)
• agent -- Define custom specialized agents
• mcp -- Model Context Protocol server configuration
• autoupdate -- Auto-update handling (true/false/"notify")
• permission -- Tool approval requirements ("ask" for confirmation)
• instructions -- Path to custom instruction/rules files

Variable Substitution

Config values support variable substitution:

• Environment variables: {env:VARIABLE_NAME} -- replaced with the env var value (empty string if not set)
• File contents: {file:path/to/file} -- inlines the file contents (useful for API keys stored separately)

Schema

JSON schema files are available for editor autocompletion and validation:

• Main config: https://opencode.ai/config.json
• TUI config: https://opencode.ai/tui.json

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Upstream OpenCode

This project tracks upstream opencode. For general OpenCode information:

• OpenCode documentation
• OpenCode Discord
• OpenCode GitHub

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License

MIT License -- see LICENSE.

This project includes code from opencode, Copyright 2025 opencode, used under the MIT License.