Ajay Krishnan ac0fe87940 Add LAUNCH.md with Rubygems push + screenshot + announcement playbook
Reference material for shipping v0.0.1.alpha1. Not part of the gem
(excluded from gemspec.files), but lives at repo root so the human
launching it has the steps in one place.

Sections:
  1. Publish to Rubygems (gem signin + push + verify; Gemfile swap)
  2. Three screenshots (terminal quickstart, rubygems.org page,
     Gemfile.lock excerpt) — Tobi's 'don't ship until the screenshots
     are beautiful' bar
  3. Announcement drafts (r/ruby, dev.to, Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon)
  4. Friendly note to Eric Guo (opencode_client maintainer) — D1
     etiquette
  5. Demand-signal tracking (60-day window per D18) — thresholds for
     deciding whether to extract opencode-rails next
  6. Note to OpenCode maintainers about repo donation if traction hits
     (D2)

assets/screenshots/ created as an empty directory (with this commit)
so screenshot files can land alongside LAUNCH.md in a single PR
after the human takes them.
2026-05-19 20:20:46 -07:00
2026-05-20 02:58:22 +00:00

opencode-ruby

Idiomatic Ruby client for OpenCode. Block-form streaming, value-object responses, automatic SSE reconnection.

require "opencode-ruby"

client  = Opencode::Client.new(base_url: "http://localhost:4096")
session = client.create_session(title: "My session")

reply = client.stream(session[:id], "Explain monads in two sentences.") do |part|
  print part["content"] if part["type"] == "text"
end

puts
puts reply.full_text
puts "(#{reply.tool_parts.size} tool calls, #{reply.parts_json.size} parts total)"

Three lines of setup, four lines of work. Block fires every time a part appears, grows, finalizes, or (for tool calls) advances state. The final return value is a typed Opencode::Reply::Result you can persist or inspect.

Install

# Gemfile
gem "opencode-ruby"

Or:

gem install opencode-ruby

Then require "opencode-ruby".

Configuration

client = Opencode::Client.new(
  base_url: "http://localhost:4096",   # or ENV["OPENCODE_BASE_URL"]
  password: "secret",                   # or ENV["OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD"]
  timeout:  120                         # or ENV["OPENCODE_TIMEOUT"], seconds
)

Multi-tenant apps construct multiple clients with different base_urls — each Opencode::Client holds its own Net::HTTP connection, no shared state.

Core API

Streaming (the headline)

reply = client.stream(session_id, "What's 2 + 2?") do |part|
  case part["type"]
  when "text"      then print part["content"]
  when "reasoning" then # ignore, or render in a separate UI
  when "tool"      then puts "  [tool: #{part['tool']}#{part['status']}]"
  end
end

reply.full_text       # => "2 + 2 = 4."
reply.tool_parts      # => array of terminal tool-call parts
reply.reasoning_text  # => the model's hidden reasoning, if any
reply.parts_json      # => the full ordered parts array, ready for persistence

Synchronous send (no streaming)

result = client.send_message(session_id, "Quick yes/no: is Ruby fun?")
# result is the OpenCode response hash; see API docs for fields.

Lower-level event firehose

If you need raw SSE events (every server tick, todo update, prompt asked/replied), use stream_events directly:

client.stream_events(session_id: session_id) do |event|
  puts event[:type] # "message.part.delta", "todo.updated", "session.idle", ...
end

Interactive prompts

When the agent uses the question or permission tools, opencode emits question.asked / permission.asked events. Answer them via:

client.reply_question(request_id: "que_...", answers: [["yes"]])
client.reply_permission(request_id: "per_...", reply: "always")

Error model

Every method that hits the network raises Opencode::Error (or a subclass) on failure. Catch the parent or the specific subclass:

begin
  client.health
rescue Opencode::ConnectionError      # server unreachable
rescue Opencode::TimeoutError         # client-side timeout
rescue Opencode::SessionNotFoundError # 404 on a session
rescue Opencode::StaleSessionError    # session.idle never arrived
rescue Opencode::IdleStreamError      # mid-turn SSE wedge
rescue Opencode::ServerError          # 5xx
rescue Opencode::BadRequestError      # 4xx other than 404
rescue Opencode::Error                # catch-all
end

Instrumentation

Want to see what the gem is doing? Plug in an adapter. Default behaviour is silent no-op — the gem ships zero opinion about your observability stack.

# stdout for debugging:
Opencode::Instrumentation.adapter = ->(name, payload, &block) {
  puts "[#{name}] #{payload.inspect}"
  block.call
}

# ActiveSupport::Notifications in a Rails app:
Opencode::Instrumentation.adapter = ->(name, payload, &block) {
  ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument(name, payload, &block)
}

Event names emitted today:

Event Payload
opencode.request :method, :path

Want this in a Rails app?

See examples/conversation_recipe.rb for a ~60-line plain-ActiveRecord blueprint covering session lifecycle (with_lock, update_columns mid-stream snapshots, CAS-safe finalize). Drop it into your app and adapt.

If enough Rails developers do that and want it as a one-liner, we'll ship opencode-rails with acts_as_opencode_session. File an issue if that's you — your issue is the signal.

Position against opencode_client

Want every OpenCode endpoint auto-generated from the OpenAPI spec? Use opencode_client. This gem is the hand-rolled idiomatic alternative — smaller surface, opinionated defaults, block-form streaming. Pick whichever fits how you want to write Ruby.

Compatibility

  • Ruby ≥ 3.2
  • OpenCode server ≥ 1.15
  • Runtime dependency: activesupport (>= 6.1)not Rails. ActiveSupport is a standalone helpers gem (blank?, present?, presence, truncate, etc.).

Development

bundle install
bundle exec rake test

12-test smoke covers Client end-to-end against WebMock-stubbed OpenCode endpoints.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Description
Idiomatic Ruby client for OpenCode (HTTP + SSE). Hand-rolled alternative to opencode_client.
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