Are agents at worktree level or can a single agent and chat work on a parent directory above multiple worktrees of different repos?
Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
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Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#32I don’t know how to phrase this without sounding like an arrogant idiot but seriously: what are people actually programming with agents + worktrees + harnesses + tasks + skills + whatnot? Most workflows I see people adopt involve large amounts of infrastructural fluff only to (more) quickly generate what I (anecdotally) have seen is somewhere between code generation of boilerplatish React/laravel/your-fav-framework c…
Yeah perfect example, the main thing I _would_ use multiple agents on is optimizing/benchmarking code, but for that you specifically can't use worktree, you need one agent per machine or they'll taint each other's benchmarks
Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#33Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up, you are going to need to provide very special USP to have people choose yours over the free and open versions.
I guess I would suggest that should be a priority for your site and documentation, to help devs understand what that value offer is.
Your site does seem nicely presented though and clarity in capability is possibly an early win over some of the more chaotic documentation elsewhere.
Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#34I'm confused, I've been running parallel agents on different worktrees within a single view of Claude Desktop for at least a month. I don't see any new features here?
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#35Are agents at worktree level or can a single agent and chat work on a parent directory above multiple worktrees of different repos?
You can open a directory also as a workspace, it just wont have git stats and git shortcuts.
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#37I'm confused, I've been running parallel agents on different worktrees within a single view of Claude Desktop for at least a month. I don't see any new features here?
Fair but FWIW I love a GUI and I’m not gonna complain if everyone and their mother want to offer options
Let a thousand vibecoded flowers bloom
Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#38Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up, you are going to need to provide very special USP to have people choose yours over the free and open versions. I guess I would suggest that should be a priority for your site and documentation, to help devs understand what that value offer is. Your site does seem nicely presented though and clarity in capability is possibly an ear…
I appreciate the feedback!
Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#39Maybe I'm daft, I watched the video, and I just didn't understand what this is, or why I'd use it.
Seems like just tabs of claude code, plus markdown viewer which can just be another tab (with an editor) in a tabbed terminal?
My ide supports multiple terminal tabs, plus is a project aware code viewer, and has the ability to run the project.
What would I gain by using this?
Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
#40Theo's t3code does a lot of this for free I think. Interested to know if it uses the same trick for accessing Claude without violating their TOS.