Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com)

by mohshomis 28 comments 103 points
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[−] kelsolaar 40d ago
[−] Duplicake 39d ago
wow that's a really nice looking icon
[−] kelsolaar 39d ago
Modo was also really good, ahead of its time in many respects. Excellent UX, the material system was quite good, especially for rapid prototyping.
[−] VerifiedReports 39d ago
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[−] VerifiedReports 38d ago
See?
[−] AlexeyBelov 38d ago
Their comment is literally #1 in this comment section. Please don't complain about downvotes, especially someone elses.
[−] VerifiedReports 37d ago
"Literally" #1? As opposed to what?

And why not?

[−] gbro3n 39d ago
This looks great. Building right into the editor looks like a solid way to go. I built "Agent Kanban" (anextension) for VS Code to enforce a similar "plan, tasks, implement" flow as you describe. That flow is really powerful for getting solid Agentic coding results. My tool went the route of encouraging the model via augmenting AGENTS.md and having the Kanban task file be markdown that the user and agent converse in (with some support for git worktrees which helps when running multiple sessions in parallel): https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-k...
[−] savolai 39d ago
I just posted something similar but with Obsidian Kanban plugin .md files:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659511

[−] cfontes 39d ago
Can subagents work on multiple branchs at the sametime (in a sandbox or some other way)?

This is a major pain atm with any IDE, they all fight over the same git cmd instance and make a mess out of it. I have a custom setup for this but would like some more integrated way of solving this.

[−] ElFitz 39d ago
Should be doable with worktrees. Claude Code has a flag for that, others probably do too.
[−] chrisweekly 39d ago
Yes, this; git worktree is a pretty standard solution, straightforward to leverage in any IDE or AI harness worth its salt.
[−] mohshomis 38d ago
that can be definitely implemented, I've also similar idea in another repo in my GitHub called ckpt you can check if you are interested but definitely that's sth that can be added ofc
[−] xkbear89 39d ago
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[−] lightbulbish 39d ago
A visual demo beyond entering an api key would be useful. A picture says a thousand words. I did not feel inclined to read all of the readme, but when i saw people here talking about mission control I went back one more time.
[−] lnenad 39d ago
Do you feel like you need a demo for yet another VSC vibecoded clone?
[−] Sriraman_K 37d ago
Interesting approach building this into the editor directly.

In my trials, I've noticed testing AI coding agents on real startup tasks - I stress tested an AI Co-Founder : the biggest failure mode isn't code quality — it's sycophancy. The agent agrees with your wrong assumptions instead of pushing back. Any plan to build guardrails against that into Modo's "plan, tasks, implement" flow? Seems like the planning stage would be the right place to catch it.

[−] digitaltrees 39d ago
I have settled on the same approach as you except I have the agent create a roadmap.md in an /agile folder with numbered epics containing sprints, user stories and other context.
[−] simple10 40d ago
Really cool. I've been building a mission control system (multi agent orchestration) that follows very similar patterns of spec driven development, steering, and task management. Having this baked into an IDE is a great idea.

For observability, would be amazing to have session replay or at least session exploration built in. Kinda like git history but tied to tasks and tool use instead of file diffs.

[−] crefiz 39d ago
Why? Like legit question, did you do it for the academy or are you genuinely trying to add yet another (agentic) IDE into the market?
[−] hahooh 38d ago
maybe for fun?
[−] mohshomis 38d ago
for fun :)
[−] esafak 40d ago
What did you learn?
[−] mohshomis 38d ago
a lot, most important is there is still to much to be added to the space of agentic coding
[−] jv22222 40d ago
How does modo help vs using a skill or claud.md that says to always do this?

Not a critique just giving you a chance to sell it :)

[−] moropex 39d ago
yeah this is my question too. a good CLAUDE.md with some structure goes a long way already
[−] neurworlds 39d ago
curious how Modo handles multi-file edits across a monorepo, that's where most tools fall apart for me
[−] mohshomis 38d ago
really didn't work yet on that but might do if I get more time. there are a lot of ideas to be implemented
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