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Show HN: evepad – The missing IDE for building eve agents

Evepad, a new open-source IDE for building and shipping eve agents, launched on Hacker News, providing a local dashboard and build harness that integrates with Vercel, eve CLI, and OpenCode. The tool, which requires Node 24+ and macOS, allows developers to create agents, generate tools via chat, monitor runs, and deploy to Vercel without API keys, using project credentials. The first run downloads a ~44MB editor, and subsequent runs start in under a second.

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Show HN: evepad – The missing IDE for building eve agents
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The missing IDE to build and ship eve agents.

A local dashboard and build harness for eve agents. One place for the whole loop: create an agent → generate and edit its tools by chat (OpenCode via AI Gateway) → watch local and production runs → add channels and integrations with the eve CLI → deploy to Vercel.

**Node 24+**macOS

No API keys. evepad signs in with your Vercel account and uses each project's own credentials.

Nothing else to install — evepad drives these for you, falling back to npx

when they aren't on your PATH:

Vercel CLI— sign-in, project linking, env pulls** eve CLI**— scaffolding, the dev server, channels and tools** OpenCode**— the engine behind the Build chat, downloaded once on first run and version-locked to the app

Sign in from the app's first-run screen.

npx evepad

Opens http://localhost:4680. The package ships prebuilt — the first run downloads the Build editor once (~44MB), and every run after that starts in under a second.

npm i -g evepad

to keep it installedevepad --port 4681

to run it on a different port- Install it as a PWA (Chrome: Install evepad, Safari:** Add to Dock**) for its own window and Dock icon

npm install
npm run dev     # http://localhost:5173
npm run pack    # build the publishable package into dist/

Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

  • Finds local agents already running on your machine.
  • Connects a local folder to its production agent, so you see both sides in one place.
  • Creates new agents and links them to Vercel in one step.

Agents(/

) — every agent as a card, with live status.Agent Runs(/runs

) — runs, tokens and cost at a glance, then the full run table and streaming run detail.Build(/build

) — chat with a coding agent scoped to your checkout, beside a live graph of tools, schedules, channels and connections. Type/

for commands; bash calls ask for approval in-chat.Chat / CLI— dockable panels: talk to the running agent, or drop into itseve dev

terminal.

  • Build runs on OpenCode, authenticated with your project's own Vercel credentials through the AI Gateway.

evepad is a community project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vercel. "eve" and "Vercel" are trademarks of Vercel, Inc.

The pixel-grid (and the app icon derived from it) follows the State component from beautifului.dev.

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