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Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by wakeless »

So I built a thing that looks _very_ similar to this a while back: http://pipie.io/agent-tracker (it doesn't orchestrate)

And what's really fascinating isn't that multiple people have built the same thing is just how convergent all the ideas are. This makes a heap of sense given that they are all vibe-coded and using similar libraries. It's just very real when you see it right in front of your face like this.

I think there's a heap of really interesting stuff when you start linking into hooks which can also create tmux splits and really make the agent the center of an ide which seems like this is on the way to.

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by alanning »

Thank you for sharing this.

Regarding feedback on whether sandboxing would be useful, yes, please! Including something like Docker sandboxes would make isolating the agent env’s much less of a hassle.

As an aside, I’m curious how others are handling this now… Mostly just creating dedicated user accounts?

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by jxmesth »

amcaskill wrote: post #17

This looks cool, I’ll definitely try it out. The best (for me) of these that I’ve tried so far is conductor.build They have a different UI orientation, and it’s more locked into Claude code, but it might be good inspiration for your future plans. They get the git worktree setup and teardown and managing dev servers part of it right IMO.

Have you tried Coder (coder.com)?

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by thecopy »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #18
Mongoose wrote: post #5

Agent orchestration seems to be the new hot problem to be solved in the ecosystem. See also Steve Yegge's most recent posts [1]. Curious to see what tools emerge as the winners of the Cambrian explosion we're probably about to see. [1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e...

There won't be a single orchestration winner, orchestration will just become ubiquitous in LoB systems. Slack and Github will probably be the biggest targets but it's pretty simple to create a chat bridge that supports adapters to support discord/telegram/etc and you can already do webhook orchestration easily enough.

This is what we are looking at at one of my clients. A2A clients (Slack, Google Meet, considering email) to A2A Orchestrator server (in-house, might be open-sourced) with specialized subagents for e.g. GitHub issue creation following a specific teams patterns and conventions, hooked up to company-wide MCP gateway with federated OIDC trust for passthrough auth (https://www.gatana.ai)

Works pretty well so far. Biggest issue i foresee for success is user UX for average employee, and actually useful use-cases.

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by resiros »

This is quite nice but limited in that it is single-player. In my opinion, the next generation of AI agents will be multi-player. Ramp's background agent is a good example https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-a...

Making this multi-player + creating the right representation to collaborate with agents is in my opinion the next bottlenecks. I wrote a small article about my thoughts there https://x.com/mmabrouk_/status/2010803911486292154

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by river_otter »

behnamoh wrote: post #25

So this is a tmux wrapper? Does it provide any additional goodies other than a UI? From the readme it looks like you select a session and then you're back in tmux?

Once you are attached to an agent session, correct it's just tmux! aoe does: - gives you one screen that shows you all of your agents and shows you which one s are waiting for you to attach to them and give them a new task or answer a question

- Easy git worktree integration to help you manage branches when running multiple agents in parallel on the same repo.

I also plan on adding a lightweight docker sandbox integration to help give you the option to sandbox a session when you run it (but that part isn't ready yet)

Re: Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Post by river_otter »

itsthecourier wrote: post #15
river_otter wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also seriously considering the ability to produce aoeii sound effects like "nuh nuh nuh"

it must be done

It has been scheduled https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires/issues/23
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