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Why I Built Evident

Samuel ·

I love OpenCode.

It’s powerful, open, and transparent. You can see exactly what your AI agent is doing — every file read, every tool call, every decision. For a developer, it’s the perfect AI assistant.

But there’s a problem.

The Terminal Trap

OpenCode lives in your terminal. And while that’s great when you’re at your desk, coding away, it creates limitations:

You can’t message it from Slack. You’re in a meeting, someone asks a question, and you think “my agent could answer this.” But you’d have to open your laptop, start a new session, wait for it to spin up…

You can’t reach it from your phone. Walking the dog, and you have an idea? It’ll have to wait until you’re back at your desk.

You can’t share it with non-technical teammates. Your PM wants to use your agent to draft specs. But they’re not going to open a terminal.

The Channels Insight

The value isn’t in another AI runtime. There are plenty of those.

The value is in making your existing agent reachable.

  • DM it from Slack like you’d DM a colleague
  • Open the web UI from your phone while you’re away from your desk
  • Share a web link with anyone

Your agent stays on your machine — or runs in GitHub Actions for free. We just connect it to wherever you are.

How It Works

Evident creates a secure tunnel from your OpenCode agent to our relay. When you message your agent from Slack or the web, we route it through to your running agent and send the response back.

Your Agent             Evident          You
┌──────────┐          ┌──────┐        ┌─────┐
│ OpenCode │ ◄──────► │Relay │ ◄────► │Slack│
│ Local/CI │  Tunnel  │      │        │ Web │
└──────────┘          └──────┘        └─────┘

No cloud compute. No data leaving your environment (except the messages you send). Just channels.

What’s Here

Evident now supports:

  • Web UI — Full interface with transparency
  • Slack — DM your agent like a colleague
  • Local runner — Run on your machine, behind your VPN
  • GitHub Actions runner — Always-on agents using free CI minutes

Try It

Evident is free to start. The web UI, local runner, and GitHub Actions runner are free forever.

Slack integration and message queuing are $10/month — because that’s where the async value is, and that’s what costs us to maintain.

You bring the compute. We connect it everywhere.

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