# How Dax Raad actually uses coding agents

OpenCode co-founder, SST

**If you take one thing:** `Voice prompting (Hex)`, instead of typing. He dictates prompts with fast local voice models and says voice, not OpenCode, is what replaced his editor.

- **Agent:** OpenCode ([source, 2026-08-12](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2087348700624412836))
- **Model:** Astra ([source, 2026-09-18](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2100802591508537777))
- **Model:** Fable ([source, 2026-09-18](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2100802591508537777))
- **Review:** Asks a smarter model to review, via subagents ([source, 2026-09-16](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2100251713525498366))
- **Harness:** OpenCode on an always-on server, driven from the OpenCode iPhone app; a worktree per task ([source, 2026-10-06](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2107581093838832003))
- **Rules file:** Global AGENTS.md (private) + OpenCode repo AGENTS.md ([source, 2026-08-12](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2087649518498062656))
- **MCP servers:** honeycomb, planetscale ([source, 2026-09-03](https://x.com/thdxr/status/2095410973662118093))

## In their words

> one of my favorite flows in opencode2 is to say "in the background do ...."

> so i switched to astra and told it to spawn fable subagents to do the work

> so i switched to astra and told it to spawn fable subagents to do the work

> very useful, i use it to get reviews from smarter models

> this past week most of my work has been done from the opencode iphone app


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