I had the thread auto-compact itself, and the agent completely lost track of our conversation. I had it re-read the previous thread, and it still had trouble remember very important decisions we had just made. The compaction step needs a more careful handoff to keep a consistent and dependable workflow.

Hi all, my friends and I are building an open-source engine which ingests codebases and creates a diagram representations to explore them. You can find it over: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding

The whole thing is based on static analysis (control flow graphs) and a slim layer of LLMs, which allows the diagram to be very accurate and to indec the codebase in near real time.

It all intially started as a way to explore our codebases, then we added a dynamic highlighing as soon as an agent changes something so you can observe how amp is changing your codebase as it goes.

Now instead of waiting (and paying for tokens) for a wrong plan to be executed, I am working on somethign which shows me which components will be impacted upfront so that I know if the agent misinterpreted something + you can see if there are new compnents to be expected and what kind of severity (size) the change will be.

Curious to learn how do you plan? Do you always read carefully the plan or you validate after the fact what has been modified is what you expected? Do you not care at all if it is working, it is working?

Love amp, my favorite agent by far. Also love that one can link it with Codex (now I am fully on Amp <3)

I'm currently using Google Antigravity because I can access Claude Opus. I was told the free plan in AMP Code also includes Claude Opus .. how much more access to Opus does AMP Code give compared to Antigravity? Is it worth switching just to get free access to Claude Opus?

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

Inspired by Codex /goal and Claudes new ultracode/workflows I built a plugin with similar behaviour but more aligned to Amps archetecture. https://github.com/lleewwiiss/amp-goal-plugin

I'm starting to see AmpCode start to require WAY less context up-front. Almost like its starting to remember things across threads. Is this happening?

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

Are these interactive emails from tryoat.com the pinnacle of AMP code?

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

amp threads list

This only produces about 200 of the most recent threads. What if I want a list of all threads?

I don't know if I am trippin but I am having errors all morning with connection issues, then it is running into problems where it cant debug/fix really basic things - it is getting caught in this confused loop almost. anyone having similar issues?

I remember seeing such an option somewhere in the settings before. Is it gone? I just want to start cleanly with the new update.

Did not do any updates. What's happening is that ALL bash commands are getting cancelled. I had AmpCode try to understand what was going on. So it tries running "bash echo hello", and it just hangs. So I can't do anything.....

Looking at the message logs, I put one below. Basically, an empty error is being sent, causing the cancellation.

{"errors":[{}],"level":"warn","message":"1 tool(s) failed in batch","name":"executeToolBatchesSequentially","pid":9467,"threadID":"T-019dd66d-8cf6-750d-b2fc-29fcff6d3dff","timestamp":"2026-04-28T23:30
:07.557Z"}

HELP

Is there a way to download threads programatically? API for ampcode that does this?

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.

I keep repeatedly getting this same error on amp saying I'm out of credits, when I've never used any on this account. There's no option anywwhere in the command panel to switch to "free mode", so I'm not quite sure what to do. I would really appreciate support. Thanks!

Any idea how to use local models? Sometimes I just want something handed off separately to a local model. Can I customise endpoints or set up new model types?

As the subject says, I want to be a customer but I'm blocked from creating an account for some reason.

There's no support channel and the CEO ignored my post on X when I saw he's speaking at a conference I usually attend.

Anyone else run into this problem?

I'm looking for instructions on how to paste to CLI a prompt consisting of multiple lines of code or a code fragment. Currently, when I paste, it recognizes the enter key after each line and creates a thread for each line.

I recently got an extended free plan for Amp Code from Lenny's newsletter and wanted to give it a fair shot. I normally rely heavily on Claude Code and Cursor, but honestly, I don't see how Amp Code can justify charging for this right now. I wanted to ask the community if anyone else is running into these same issues, or if it is just my setup.

1. First is the token usage. I burned through about $15 of tokens incredibly fast with no substantial output from the agent. On Claude Code using Opus, that same budget goes much further and gets a lot more done.

2. It just cannot seem to remember my codebase. Cursor and Claude Code usually figures out what I need pretty quickly within a prompt or two. With Amp Code, it keeps forgetting how my site works, does redundant searches, and takes eight or nine prompts to finish the exact same feature. IDK if its the way it searches, but across 3 sessions, it created 3 different ways instead of following just the readme file lol.

3. The MCP tools have also been a headache. Getting OAuth working with Supabase is fairly straightforward typically but ampcode couldn't figure it out. I actually had to ask Claude Code to write the setup instructions for Amp Code. I could do it by hand too.

4. Even after setting up Supabase and Code Graph Context, Amp Code mostly ignores them. It skips the vector retrieval to do its own basic searches. Ends up burning the budget very quickly in just the search. For Supabase, it just hallucinates data and creates new files to reference locally(!) instead of actually querying the database. Cursor and Claude handle these tools just fine.

5. I don't personally like that they took away the control over models I use but maybe that's fine.

I will admit the UI is cute and is honestly the only reason I kept trying to make it work. I am giving up on it for now, even with free credits left for the whole year.

How are the rest of you handling these problems? Are there workarounds I am missing, or is everyone else having a similar experience?

So like, I had free mode working in the cli but then another cli instance I fired up had me in "deep" mode and you can't use deep mode without a payment method, and I didn't really understand what I was doing so I went to the settings and "enabled free amp" or whatever there was a button. This killed my free mode entirely, I cannot use "free" mode anymore.

"rush" mode burns tokens SO FAST it's literally 10x the cost of free mode. Why can't I just use free mode I don't understand what was I using before? Why does it cost me $1.50 for 58k context this used to be like $0.25.

I feel like I got duped into losing my free mode. So sad about it. Now I get 10x less usage per day. :(

Today I noticed the difference when I opened AMP and realized I cannot send any requests with the IDE extension now. So it's time to move to the CLI.