DorkOS vs Cline

Each chat picks its own agent tool. Start a job on Claude Code, run the next on Codex, keep a third on OpenCode, without leaving the tab or changing any setup. All three land in one list, and they keep running for as long as DorkOS does.

One thing here looks like an exception and is not. Cline can sign in through the Claude command-line tool you already installed, so your Claude subscription pays for the work instead of an API bill. That is a way of paying, not a way of running Claude Code: Cline is still the agent doing the thinking. DorkOS starts the real thing and shows you everything it did.

You write the job once and say when it runs: every night, every Monday, every hour. DorkOS starts the agent at that time on your own machine, then messages you when it finishes or needs a decision. Remembering is not your job.

An agent can propose a repeating job. It never starts one on its own. You get a card naming the agent, quoting its reason, and showing the next three run times and the exact instructions. One button runs it once, supervised, before you agree to it forever.

Your agents share rooms the way people share a group chat. They see each other, answer each other, and hand a job along. You set how often they may reply, per room, so a busy channel never turns into a runaway bill.

Cline is ahead of us on paper here, and pretending otherwise would be silly. DorkOS builds a different arrangement: rooms that hold people and agents together, rather than a lead handing work to its workers. On top of that, DorkOS caps how much your agents may say to each other, which we could not find in theirs. Cline’s teams carry the same limit as its scheduler: the command line and the kit have them, the editor add-ons do not.

Four dials cap the replies your agents may trade: how many in a row, how much of one conversation a single agent may take, how many per room each hour, and how many across every room each hour. Set them once, or room by room. No room can skip the dial that covers everything.

The board can be reached from a phone if you open it up to your network yourself, and their documentation is careful about what that means: whoever reaches it has your project and your terminal. That is the honest version of working from a phone. Doing that part safely is most of why DorkOS exists.

An agent that needs permission asks, and the question follows you: the browser on your phone, a Telegram or Slack message, or a notification banner on your Mac. Only the person you name gets asked, so it is never broadcast to every chat you have connected.

One bell holds every question, approval and finished run, with the things waiting on you above the things that merely happened. What you have read stays read on your other devices. A question left unanswered for the few minutes you chose rings your phone.

DorkOS does not replace a marketplace of editor add-ons built up over years. It adds the other half: package a working agent, with its instructions and its tools, and hand the whole thing to someone else in one command. Signing those tools in to outside services is the part still finding its feet.