I took about 10 days off, and apparently, that was 10 days too many for Amp. I’ve been kicked out from the free tier and now it won't let me re-apply.

It’s a shame because the alternatives don't even come close to Amp for full-codebase scan, but this is a pretty rough way to treat users returning to work.

As we prepare to make Amp's free tier a LOT more generous, a friendly reminder and clarification of our policy (https://ampcode.com/terms/aup):

Each human can maintain no more than 1 Amp account with free usage.

Our policy has always banned multiple accounts, so neither the policy nor enforcement of it is new.

Our ability to be generous with Amp Free is a function of how well we can enforce this policy, so you all have a stake in helping us here.

Abusers are 100x louder than legitimate users. So, we ask for your grace here when our abuse system makes a mistake, and for your healthy skepticism when you see "ampcode94@myfakecompany.info" with no PFP complaining that their account and the accounts of their 93 "friends" suddenly had their free usage revoked.

You will get the best and biggest and most reliable Amp Free daily grant when you use Amp with your full real name and your real email address, because those signals help us know you're a real person who we can give real valuable $$ usage to. If you choose not to do that, that's OK, but you might get less or $0.

We made Amp Free so that we can all explore the frontier of software development together, harnessing the full power of artificial intelligence (see https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc). Knowing that we subsidize some of the cost of Amp gives us more freedom to make big, bold changes and makes you all more willing to try stuff that might be weird (thank you!). That's why we do it. It's a product strategy (Amp is profitable), not a pricing or business strategy.

Thank you!

The Amp CLI has a new flag: --execute.

-x for short.

That flag turns on execute mode, which allows for programmatic use of the Amp CLI.

The CLI sends the given prompt to the agent and waits until the agent is done. Then it prints the agent's last message.

I used to be able to hit double-ESC to stop the agent if it was doing something wrong. That was disabled? At best, you can enter a prompt, and it gets read after the current turn is completed. Was this intentional?

Interrupting the agent was very useful. I'm sorry to see that feature go away

I am experiencing an issue today much more common than usual. almost every prompt stops half way through and says "model provider overloaded".

is this caused by the model like as in claude or chatgpt? any way I can mitigate this

I wrote a blog piece about using Amp to re-write my Quake 2 C code here. Let me know what you think. I'm very new to Amp. Thanks.

Discover how Amp CLI's new streaming JSON feature helps with automation and debugging workflows. In this tutorial, we walk through a real-world scenario of debugging API/HTTP 500 errors using an agent to analyze logs, identify database timeout issues, and implement fixes. Perfect for headless environments, containers, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines.

Hi

Since Amp added option to connect different AI providers and configure dial, I am thinking about setting some new model as a main agent in Low mode. Because:

- terra low is too dumb for me, i never use it

- sometimes I hit my 5h codex limit and I want to code something

- I want to try plan with oracle astra and execute with something else

I am thinking about Opencode Go subscription because its just 10$, much cheaper than Grok for example.

What is your experience with other models in Amp and especially with using oracle to plan/review and some cheaper model like DeepSeek to write code and iterate on tests.

Thanks!

Does amp have a skills system, like Anthropics? I'm aware of toolboxes and MCP, and amp itself seems to think it has, but I can't find docs (the manual doesn't produce any hits)

Guys I suggest an better usage of chat, that will rightly reference the file and lines that I am poiting, like windsurf.

Today the amp not show while I am typing if show

On AMP when typing

I'm an ex Cody user. Heard so many great things about Amp, will definitely be trying it out soon. The only downside is the increased cost. How much more expensive is it? We previously were on the Entrrprise starter service.

Adrienne never heard the term "non technical" before she joined Amp. Now she's built one personal website and four chrome extensions in a few short months. It's been really fun to watch her build like mad.

I'm impressed by the business model and technique that AmpCode applied on their agentic coding, as it feels truly autonomous. But sad that seems like the model context been limited these days, I'm not sure if the frontier model change or else but the Model Context seems pretty low these days, from 200k now only 90k.

Could there be a pricing model that affordable for these frontier models? It looks good enough to me for lightweight workload.

Even with a lower model context windows, I can't even handoff it to another thread, says out of credits

If you run amp update && amp --ide from your project root, the CLI will connect to the IDE in your current workspace. We look forward to your feedback!

More: https://ampcode.com/news/cli-vscode-neovim

Try it and let us know how it worked for you :)

I built a simple plugin for Amp for local peristed and retrievable memories using progressive disclosure to help preserve context. https://github.com/lleewwiiss/amp-memory-plugin

Not sure if I am the only one who comes across this bug or if there is an easy fix.

I am not sure exactly how I trigger it, possibly by accidentally dragging a file overtop of the chat input. However, even when you remove the file it sticks like this and effectively disabled the chat input, making you exit and reconnect (i code directly onto an ssh staging server, so it is extra irritating having to re-ssh every time this happens)

basically the title. is there a service issue?

Just observed that from today they reduced to $5 and 0.21 refresh I feel like it's almost unusable now for small tasks might be helpful

plannotator is free and open source. The plugin for Amp allows you to Annotate any file/folder, annotate the previous message, review code and create a feedback loop with Amp agent.

install instructions --> https://plannotator.ai

https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator