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.
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[−] AlexeyBelov 37d ago
Their comment is literally #1 in this comment section. Please don't complain about downvotes, especially someone elses.
[−] 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...
[−] 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.

[−] 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.
[−] 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 39d 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?
[−] esafak 40d ago
What did you learn?
[−] jv22222 39d 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 :)

[−] neurworlds 39d ago
curious how Modo handles multi-file edits across a monorepo, that's where most tools fall apart for me
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