ZCode: the coding agent you @ from Telegram
Zhipu just shipped ZCode, and it's on the Hacker News front page today. Think Codex or Claude Code, except the model underneath is GLM-5.2 and the whole thing comes from the people who made that model. Native Electron desktop app, mac, windows, linux in beta, 20-plus built-in tools including git and a terminal. If you already have their Coding Plan you grab an API key and you're in.
The part that actually makes you stop is the remote trigger. You can @ the agent from WeChat, Feishu, Telegram or Discord and push a task forward without opening your laptop. Kick off a long refactor from your phone on the subway, check the result over dinner. Nobody in the Western coding-agent world is really doing this yet, and it fits how a lot of people actually work in China, half your life already lives inside a chat app.
Here's the bigger point. GLM-5.2 exposes an Anthropic-compatible endpoint, so agents you built against Claude's API run with a base-url swap, no code change. The coding agent is coming loose from the lab that trained the model. Anyone can ship a Codex clone now. Which means the model stops being the moat and the fight moves to the harness, the long-task structure, and distribution, exactly the ground ZCode is standing on with those chat-app triggers.
Pricing is yuan-denominated, Lite around 16 a month up to Max at 144. Details at https://zcode.z.ai
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The part that actually makes you stop is the remote trigger. You can @ the agent from WeChat, Feishu, Telegram or Discord and push a task forward without opening your laptop. Kick off a long refactor from your phone on the subway, check the result over dinner. Nobody in the Western coding-agent world is really doing this yet, and it fits how a lot of people actually work in China, half your life already lives inside a chat app.
Here's the bigger point. GLM-5.2 exposes an Anthropic-compatible endpoint, so agents you built against Claude's API run with a base-url swap, no code change. The coding agent is coming loose from the lab that trained the model. Anyone can ship a Codex clone now. Which means the model stops being the moat and the fight moves to the harness, the long-task structure, and distribution, exactly the ground ZCode is standing on with those chat-app triggers.
Pricing is yuan-denominated, Lite around 16 a month up to Max at 144. Details at https://zcode.z.ai
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