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Description: Now that you’ve used OpenCode to implement a feature in your Python project, you can learn about a couple of characteristics that OpenCode has that, as of this recording, are fairly unique to OpenCode. One of them being the fact that you can start a…

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00:00https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=0.0
Now that you’ve used OpenCode to implement a featurehttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=0.0
in your Python project, you can learn about ahttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=3.64
couple of characteristics that OpenCode has that,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=6.5
as of this recording,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=9.98
are fairly unique to OpenCode.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=11.48
00:13https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=13.96
One of them being the fact that you canhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=13.96
start a conversation with a model from a specifichttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=16.82
provider, and you can ask,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=20.42
for example, for a joke,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=22.6
and then you can use /models andhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=23.6
you can switch to a different model.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=26.82
00:29https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=29.48
For example, now let’s go from Gemini 3.5 tohttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=29.48
Gemini 2.5, and you can ask for another joke.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=32.36
And then,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=36.54
still within the same conversation,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=39.3
you can use the /models command andhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=41.56
you can switch to a different modelhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=44.82
from a different provider.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=47.42
00:49https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=49.351
For example,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=49.351
you can try this free model from OpenCode Zen,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=50.28
and you can say, “Tell me yet another joke”.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=52.68
00:58https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=58.64
This is a pretty unique feature that unlocks somehttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=58.64
very interesting use cases for more advanced projects.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=61.48
Now go ahead, run /exit.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=65.36
One thing that may be interesting for you,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=68.58
it’s going to depend on your personal preferences,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=71.22
of course,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=73.06
but you can run opencode web,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=74.22
and this will open a web client for OpenCode.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=76.44
01:21https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=81.64
Once you press Enter,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=81.64
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project or open a recent project,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=88.72
and you can have a session directly through thehttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=91.08
browser.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=95.76
01:36https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=96.545
Finally, if you open the OpenCode documentation,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=96.545
you’re going to find a section on configuring differenthttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=101.14
things, and you will find a very long listhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=105.22
of different features and add-ons that you can usehttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=109.62
within OpenCode.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=114.28
01:55https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=115.531
For example, you can have OpenCode runhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=115.531
specific formatters whenever it modifies your Python files,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=118.4
or you can just enable a Python LSP serverhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=122.46
so that whenever OpenCode modifies one of your Pythonhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=126.52
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things like syntax, if there’s possibly any linting errors,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=135.1
if it’s using variables that don’t even exist.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=138.46
02:21https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=141.18
The type of diagnostics that you get from anhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=141.18
LSP server, you can bake them into OpenCode directly,https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=143.06
among many other things, as you might see fromhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=146.68
the extensiveness of this list.https://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=149.52
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These are some of the features that make OpenCodehttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=152.14
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These are just some of the characteristics that allowhttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=160.9
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move on to the next lesson where you’re goinghttps://realpython.com/lessons/understanding-opencode-differentiators/#t=175.64
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