[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f1xkyk73u2y99e":3},{"code":4,"message":5,"data":6,"timestamp":52},10000,"success",{"full_name":7,"position":8,"description":9,"language":10,"stars":11,"forks":12,"stars_gained":13,"age_days":14,"hn_threads":15,"one_liner":22,"summary_md":23,"topic":24,"github_topics":27,"license":48,"homepage":49,"updated_at":50,"history":51},"leepokai\u002FCodync",7,"Bring your own agent and subscription: message Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot and 40+ AI agents as bots on your own computer, from iPhone, Mac, Windows, Linux or terminal. Agent-agnostic, free, open source. The Grok Bot, Muse and Dots alternative. Built in Rust.","Rust",793,97,304,220,[16],{"id":17,"title":18,"points":19,"comments":20,"posted_at":21},49993772,"Show HN: Codync – Free, open-source Grok Bot alternative for any coding agent",1,0,"2026-10-07","Turns the coding agents already installed on your machine into named chat bots you can message and delegate to from a phone or terminal.","## The problem\n\nRunning Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI well usually means sitting at the machine where they run. Starting a task from a phone or from another computer means SSH, a VPN, or a browser session, and then remembering which terminal window held which job. Context gets lost between sessions, and nothing tells you when a long run finishes. Codync keeps a Rust host process on your own computer driving the agents you already have, and puts a named-bot chat interface on top of it for iPhone, desktop and terminal clients.\n\n## What's different\n\nMost people run coding agents directly in a terminal and coordinate across tmux windows or a remote shell. Codync instead models each agent as a persistent bot with its own project folder, instructions and approval policy, and gives every bot one long-lived chat. The distinguishing choices are agent-agnosticism via the Agent Client Protocol (the README claims roughly 40 backends found automatically or fetched on first use), a group-chat mode where bots reply in turn and can call the `team` MCP server to ask another bot for help, and a hosted Cloudflare relay for end-to-end encrypted phone access without Tailscale or port forwarding. The comparison point is Grok Bot and similar single-vendor remote agents; the trade-off is that Codync owns the transport layer while relying on each agent's own CLI for capability, usage limits and cost.\n\n## Who it's for\n\nDevelopers who already pay for one or more coding agents, work on a machine that stays on (desktop, server or cloud VM), and want to kick off and approve work from an iPhone or over SSH. It suits people running several parallel tasks across projects and wanting notifications instead of polling terminals. It does not suit locked-down corporate environments where an inbound relay or APNs traffic is unacceptable, nor anyone who wants a single-vendor managed agent with no host process to run. Teams needing shared multi-user administration should look elsewhere: the model is one account, many personally approved computers and devices.\n\n## Cost of adoption\n\nYou need a machine that can stay awake and reachable, an installed agent CLI with a valid subscription, and a host binary per OS (macOS 14+, Windows x64, Linux x86_64\u002Farm64; iPhone on iOS 18+). The desktop client is Electron, which is heavier than the old native Mac app the changelog says was dropped in 2.7.0. The README is unusually detailed on internals but says nothing about data-retention guarantees, and the hosted relay is free without a stated sustainability plan, so self-hosting the relay may matter for cautious users. Apache-2.0 licensing is friendly for internal use and modification. Install options are listed on the releases page; Homebrew and an App Store listing exist.\n\n## Verdict\n\nThe project is young — created in March 2026 — and the momentum is real but narrow: 793 stars and a weekly Rust board appearance at #7 with +304 that week, alongside a Hacker News launch that drew a single point. That pattern says a trending spike rather than an entrenched tool, so expect interface churn, as the 2.7.0 platform rewrite already suggests. The architecture is sensible and the ACP-based agnosticism is the right bet, but the value depends entirely on your agents staying installed and authenticated. Try it if you already run agents on an always-on machine and want phone approvals; wait a few months if you need stability or compliance guarantees.",{"slug":25,"name":26},"developer-tools","Developer Tools",[28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47],"acp","agent-client-protocol","ai-agents","ai-assistant","claude","claude-code","codex","coding-agents","cursor","gemini","gemini-cli","grok-bot-alternative","ios","iphone","linux","macos","mcp","open-source","rust","self-hosted","Apache-2.0","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.codync.dev","2026-10-24T23:06:26Z",[],1792898532]