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Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider.

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What it is

Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Thanks. Btw, doesn't work at all for me. I installed, tried to connect to my WSL2 instance on localhost via SSH, which worked. Selected a folder and got Claude Code is not…

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This week on Hacker News

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What Hacker News says

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Emdash: Open-Source Agentic IDE for Orchestrating Multiple Coding Agents

Found this and it actually solves something that's been bugging me. Running multiple AI coding agents is great until you're juggling five terminal windows. Emdash is basically a dashboard for that. Each agent gets its own Git worktree so nothing bleeds into each other, you can see diffs before committing, and you can throw GitHub, Jira or Linear issues directly at an agent. It Supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 20+ others. YC backed & 60k downloads already. Worth a look if you're running more than one agent at a time. Has anyone used this in a real workflow yet? https://github.com/generalaction/emdash
2 points · Open discussion
martinald·Feb 24, 2026Recommendation phrase
Thanks. Btw, doesn't work at all for me. I installed, tried to connect to my WSL2 instance on localhost via SSH, which worked. Selected a folder and got Claude Code is not installed (it is very much installed :)). Then tried running the Linux version on WSL2 (not ideal because the wayland server on WSL2 is slow) - doesn't work. This 404s: https://github.com/generalaction/emdash/releases/download/v0... Grabbed the version before and got "PTY unavailable: ... was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 127, this version requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 123". Hope you can fix the bugs. I love Conductor on my Mac, but I need something for my WSL2 machine. Ideally Windows which can SSH into WSL2 (for UI speed) or runs on Linux itself. This is very close to what I need if you fix the bugs :).
In Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment
onecommit·Feb 24, 2026Submission

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

Hey HN! We’re Arne and Raban, the founders of Emdash (https://github.com/generalaction/emdash). Emdash is an open-source and provider-agnostic desktop app that lets you run multiple coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own git worktree, either locally or over SSH on a remote machine. We call it an Agentic Development Environment (ADE). You can see a 1 minute demo here: https://youtu.be/X31nK-zlzKo We are building Emdash for ourselves. While working on a cap-table management application (think Stripe Atlas + Pulley), we found our development workflow to be messy: lots of terminals, lots of branches, and too much time spent waiting on Codex. Emdash puts the terminal at the center and makes it easy to run multiple agents at once. Each agent runs as a task in its own git worktree. You can start one or a few agents on the same probl
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em, test, and review. Emdash works over SSH so you can run agents where your code lives and keep the parallel workflow. You can assign tickets to agents, edit files manually, and review changes. We also spent time making task startup fast. Each task can be created in a worktree, and creating worktrees on demand was taking 5s+ in some cases. We now keep a small reserve of worktrees in the background and let a new task claim one instantly. That brought task start time down to ~500–1000ms depending on the provider. We also spawn the shell directly and avoid loading the shell environments on startup. We believe using the providers’ native CLIs is the right approach. It gives you the full capabilities of each agent, always. If a provider starts supporting plan mode, we don't have to add that first. We support 21 coding agent CLIs today, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Droid, Amp, Codebuff, and more. We auto-detect what you have installed and we’re provider-agnostic by design. If there’s a provider you want that we don’t support yet, we can add it. We believe that in the future, some agents will be better suited for task X and others for task Y. Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini all have fans. We want to be agnostic and enable individuals and teams to freely switch between them. Beyond orchestration, we try to pull most of the development loop into Emdash. You can review diffs, commit, open PRs, see CI/CD checks, and merge directly from Emdash once checks pass. When starting a task, you can pass issues from Linear, GitHub, and Jira to an agent. We also support convenience variables and lifecycle scripts so it’s easy to allocate ports and test changes. Emdash is fully open-source and MIT-licensed. Download for macOS, Linux or Windows (as of yesterday !), or install via Homebrew: brew install --cask emdash. We’d love your feedback. How does your coding agent development setup look like, especially when working with multiple agents? We would want to learn more about it. Check out our repository here: https://github.com/generalaction/emdash We’ll be around in the comments — thanks!
206 points · Open discussion

Show HN: Emdash – Coding Agent Orchestrator Powered by Git Worktrees

Launching Emdash— an OS UI for running multiple CLI agents in parallel. Powered by Git worktrees. It's possible to pass Linear / Jira / Github Issues directly to coding agents (Emdash supports Codex, Claude Code, Amp, Auggie, Charm, Cursor, Droid, Gemini, CoPilot, Goose, OpenCode, and Qwen. Testing changes (esp. UI changes) is one of the biggest bottlenecks in agentic coding. There's a feature in Emdash to quickly connect any worktree to the local Docker engine on the users machine. (Link to short demo: https://x.com/arnestrickmann/status/1984303677683679456) - *Bullish on Git worktrees
2 points · Open discussion

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