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.

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 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 installed evepad --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 /andrewckor/evepad/blob/main/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 its eve dev terminal. - Build runs on OpenCode https://opencode.ai , 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 loader and the app icon derived from it follows the Loading State component from beautifului.dev https://www.beautifului.dev/ .