ouijit

You don't need funding or teams to make these types of tools anymore, they are all basically engineering as marketing for running agents in the cloud, or some other value add/funnel into something that could make money. codex(or whatever they're calling the bundled desktop experience) = selling inference claude code = selling inference conductor = selling hosted agents superlogical = selling... something I recommend everyone build their own. It's fun, you'll learn a bit, and assuming you work as a software engineer the dogfooding is built in. I built ouijit as my own example of this: https://ouijit.com & https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit (note that I am not trying to make money, just free as in libre AND beer)

Since you seem curious about these types of tools, might I interest you in ouijit https://ouijit.com/ https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit Its intended as a terminal agent orchestrator aimed at power users who want a little more design than what I like to call 'hackerman' UXes.

Hey folks, I started working on Ouijit around the start of the new year, and its since become the daily driver for myself and a handful of other engineers (that I know of). The initial reason I built it was over dissatisfaction with how most agent orchestrators abstract stuff behind chat UIs, require login, or only support their companies own model/harness. I didn’t want to keep cobbling together scripts for worktree isolation between tasks though, so the yak shaving began. A couple weeks in, I received a message from a friend sharing that they just finished an 8 hour session working in it and they really liked it, and that they’d even shared it with their coworkers unprompted. I’ve been a software engineer/designer for ~10 years and its hard to put into words how rewarding that felt. Some things I think are unique about Ouijit: - Sandbox

Hi HN, I’m working on Ouijit. It’s a project and task-based terminal session manager that provides a few basic but useful tools for agent workflows: - Terminal sessions in Ouijit have access to the ouijit CLI, and supported agents (Claude, Codex, Pi) can work with it out of the box to manage tasks and customize a personal development workflow - Tasks live on a kanban board that supports hooks for task lifecycle events (eg. ‘Run this script when a task moves to ‘in progress’) I’ve found this simple combination to be very expressive and flexible for adapting to changing workflows. I made the V1 a couple months ago for fun, and have kept at it since a friend shared they had logged an 8 hour work session in it. Along the way I’ve baked in lots of what I believe are table-stakes for this type of tool, like task isolation via Git worktrees, age

I've built/am building something similar, but I spent the first half of my tech career as a UI/UX designer before becoming a software engineer and I'd _like_ to think it shows, but there is something about designing-in-code with agents that leads to homogenous outputs if you don't spend equal time on visual design as on the technical parts. I'm a bit anxious about putting myself out there, but I'd be curious if my efforts cross that bar for you or not? https://ouijit.com/ (and the repo is at https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit)

You should check out Ouijit [1] - I use it regularly for work and it's nice because it focuses on the environment that you want, and just gives you a shell that you can use any tooling in, as well as VM isolation per worktree if needed. [1]: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit

> Anyway, you’re right Claude Code is less ergonomic; generally slower. The secret in my experience is parallelization - Cursor might be faster or have better ergo for a single task, but Claude Code really shines when you have 6 tasks that are fairly independent. If you treat CC as just another terminal tool and heavily use git worktrees, the overall productivity shoots through the window. I've been using a tool called Ouijit[1] for this (disclosure: the dev is an old colleague of mine), and I genuinely do not think I could go back to using Cursor or any other traditional IDE+agent. I barely even open the code in an editor anymore, primarily interacting through the term with Vim when I need to pull the wires out. [1]: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit

I have a terminal manager project[0] I'm currently using xterm for, but very curious to try libghostty. Have mainly been hesitant because it hasn't been promoted from an internal ghostty dependency (only awareness of the place was from this article by the creator[1]), but from the sounds of it here people are finding it stable enough. Gonna give it a whirl today. [0]: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit [1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming