{"slug": "show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents", "title": "Show HN: evepad – The missing IDE for building eve agents", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**The missing IDE to build and ship eve agents.**\n\nA 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.\n\n**Node 24+****macOS**\n\n**No API keys.** evepad signs in with your Vercel account and uses each\nproject's own credentials.\n\nNothing else to install — evepad drives these for you, falling back to `npx`\n\nwhen they aren't on your PATH:\n\n**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\n\nSign in from the app's first-run screen.\n\n```\nnpx evepad\n```\n\nOpens [http://localhost:4680](http://localhost:4680). The package ships prebuilt — the first run\ndownloads the Build editor once (~44MB), and every run after that starts in\nunder a second.\n\n`npm i -g evepad`\n\nto keep it installed`evepad --port 4681`\n\nto run it on a different port- Install it as a PWA (Chrome:\n**Install evepad**, Safari:** Add to Dock**) for its own window and Dock icon\n\n```\nnpm install\nnpm run dev     # http://localhost:5173\nnpm run pack    # build the publishable package into dist/\n```\n\nContributions welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](/andrewckor/evepad/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\n- Finds local agents already running on your machine.\n- Connects a local folder to its production agent, so you see both sides in one place.\n- Creates new agents and links them to Vercel in one step.\n\n**Agents**(`/`\n\n) — every agent as a card, with live status.**Agent Runs**(`/runs`\n\n) — runs, tokens and cost at a glance, then the full run table and streaming run detail.**Build**(`/build`\n\n) — chat with a coding agent scoped to your checkout, beside a live graph of tools, schedules, channels and connections. Type`/`\n\nfor commands; bash calls ask for approval in-chat.**Chat / CLI**— dockable panels: talk to the running agent, or drop into its`eve dev`\n\nterminal.\n\n- Build runs on\n[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), authenticated with your project's own Vercel credentials through the AI Gateway.\n\nevepad is a community project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vercel. \"eve\" and \"Vercel\" are trademarks of Vercel, Inc.\n\nThe pixel-grid loader (and the app icon derived from it) follows the Loading\nState component from [beautifului.dev](https://www.beautifului.dev/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/andrewckor/evepad", "published_at": "2026-08-20 13:23:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 13:45:58.152385+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["evepad", "Vercel", "eve CLI", "OpenCode", "AI Gateway", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-evepad-the-missing-ide-for-building-eve-agents.jsonld"}}