Rating certificate · AW/26-09/52226 Sept 2026
Not enough evidence
The Register / Coding agents / Open Interpreter
Register entry · Coding agents · updated 26 Sept 2026
Open Interpreter
Open Interpreter now ships as a Rust fork of the OpenAI Codex CLI that tracks upstream Codex releases and adds provider-neutral model configuration, Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages transports, and a /harness switch that emulates the agent loops of Claude Code, Kimi Code, Qwen Code, ZCode, DeepSeek TUI and SWE-agent. It keeps Codex's sandbox modes, approval policies, MCP, AGENTS.md, skills, hooks and ACP support, and also has a desktop app. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and free; users pay their model provider.
What reviewers and users praise
- Brings a mature Codex terminal interface to cheap and open-weight models (project docs; user reports of pairing with DeepSeek)
- Very frequent releases tracking upstream Codex (20 GitHub releases in 90 days)
What they criticise
- Provider-compatibility bugs reported on GitHub (tool calls failing on Moonshot K3, model picker hangs, Ollama/Qwen loops)
- Little independent review or community discussion of the relaunched product so far
Experts vs the crowdneeds both scores
Experts—
Crowd—
| Price | Free |
|---|---|
| Use it via | CLI, Desktop app, IDE extension, MCP server |
| Runs on | macos, linux, windows |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Updated | Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026 |
How the rating was worked out
Weights for Coding agents: adoption 35%, experts 40%, crowd 25%. Fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. The method.
| Adoption & momentumweight 35% | 90 | GitHub stars 68k → 86 · 20 releases in 90 days → 100reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Expertsindependent reviews · weight 40% | — | No independent reviews found |
| Crowdcommunity sample · weight 25% | — | Only 1 community item sampled (6 needed) |
| Rating | — | Not rated: fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. |
Evidence checks. 2 GitHub issues not counted as sentiment. How evidence is checked.
Trust & safety
Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: A.
A
Permission model
Separate sandbox mode (read-only / workspace-write / danger-full-access) and approval policy (untrusted / on-request / never); docs show workspace-write with on-request approval as the configured posture, and native sandboxing on macOS, Linux and Windows. source
A
Data access scope
Permission profiles scope filesystem access to workspace roots with per-path read/write/deny rules and network domain allowlists. source
A
Data storage
Runs locally; config and session state kept under ~/.openinterpreter; local model providers keep model traffic on the machine. source
n/e
Data retention & training
No vendor-hosted data store; retention and training depend on the model provider the user connects. source
A
Incident history (24 months)
No published security advisories or CVEs found for the repository in the last 24 months; security reports route to the maintainer or OpenAI's disclosure programme for inherited Codex issues. source
D
Compliance
No SOC 2 / ISO attestation; small open-source project. source
A
Transparency
Apache-2.0; public GitHub releases, public docs and a documented list of deltas from upstream Codex. source
The experts
0 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.
- None found.
The crowd
1 coded posts from hackernews.
1 positive0 mixed0 negative
- positive
Open Interpreter Classic (python version) for Swiss army knife terminal replacement one-off task type stuff.
news.ycombinator.com (DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update) · 31 Jul 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
Pricing
As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open source | Free | Apache-2.0; users bring a ChatGPT login, API keys or local models. |
Recent changes
- 20 Sept 2026
rust-v0.0.45: current DeepSeek models added to the provider catalog. source
- 13 Sept 2026
Merged upstream Codex rust-v0.154.0; ACP harness selection. source
- 15 Sept 2026
GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash options for Z.AI / Zhipu (0.0.44). source
- 20 Jun 2026
First Rust (Codex-fork) releases; product relaunched as a coding agent for low-cost models. source
Ranked alongside
Other ranked entries in Coding agents.
OpenCodeAnomaly75
Claude CodeAnthropic73
Zed (Agent Panel)Zed Industries73
GitHub CopilotGitHub (Microsoft)72
Codex (CLI and app)OpenAI71
Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.