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Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents

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Post by ZeidJ »

We posted here on Monday and got some great feedback. We’ve implemented a few of the most requested updates:

- iMessage channel support (agents can text people and you can text agents) Other channels are simple to extend. - A built-in browser (agents can navigate and interact with websites) - Scheduling (run tasks on a timer / cron/ in the future) - Built in tunneling so that the agents can share local stuff with you over the internet - More robust MCP and Skills support so anyone can extend it - Auto approval for agent requests

If you didn’t see the original:

Outworked is a desktop app where Claude Code agents work as a small “team.” You give it a goal, and an orchestrator breaks it into tasks and assigns them across agents.

Agents can run in parallel, talk to each other, write code, and now also browse the web and send messages.

It runs locally and plugs into your existing Claude Code setup.

Would love to hear what we should build next. Thanks again!

Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents
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Post by ZeidJ »

billconan wrote: post #2

does it use the claude code api or the claude code cli? You know, the claude code api is more expensive. I also hope it can have a webapp version, rather than electron. because most of our work are on a remote server.

It actually uses the Claude code SDK so it plugs into whatever you already have.

It can use API/CLI or even if you have a private hosted instance.

We're actually working on a remote web app version but its a little trickier to wire up.

These are great questions - thank you!

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Post by jameschaearley »

Love the pixel office. Such a fun way to make multi-agent work less abstract. Being able to actually watch agents walk to their desks and pick up tasks makes it way easier to follow what's happening than staring at terminal logs. Curious if the orchestrator handles cases where two agents need to edit the same file.

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Post by ZeidJ »

mitul005 wrote: post #5

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There are two levels of auto approve, first level is auto-edit which is basic read and write, and basic bash tools (these can be configured to be any arbitrary bash command).

The second level is called auto approve and is for more complex bash commands. Generally the model will ask permission before running one of these big commands, but you can allow all. Right now, it's global across the instance, but we're working on making it more granular.

Also, there is a deny list of certain commands which you can customize to prevent bad behavior (like rm -rf, etc...)

We want to wire the approval process to imessage or whatever channel, but we need to first auth the imessage session to make sure it's coming through from the owner and not someone else communicating through the same channel.

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Post by ZeidJ »

jameschaearley wrote: post #4

Love the pixel office. Such a fun way to make multi-agent work less abstract. Being able to actually watch agents walk to their desks and pick up tasks makes it way easier to follow what's happening than staring at terminal logs. Curious if the orchestrator handles cases where two agents need to edit the same file.

Thank you James, great question! Generally, when the orchestrator assigns parallel work it does it in groups, with everyone in the group working on different files. When the group is done it passes the work to the next group which can then edit those same files.

We're working on simultaneous editing of the same files using git, but we want to ensure changes are merged in an intelligent way.

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