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New Terminal Tools Manage AI Coding Agents and Sessions
Key points
- Agent-Manager runs multiple AI coding agents in separate tmux sessions.
- It offers a TUI for live status, prompting, and diffing agent changes.
- Wallfacer manages and indexes AI coding session files from various agents.
- Wallfacer allows naming, tagging, grouping, and searching of past sessions.
- Both tools aim to improve developer workflow with AI coding assistants.
- Proliferate is an open-source, self-hostable platform.
- Proliferate runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Grok.
- Proliferate provides isolated git worktrees for each task.
- Proliferate supports subagents that delegate work to child agents.
- Proliferate offers integrations for MCPs, skills, Computer Use, and Browser Use.
- Proliferate includes workflows for recurring and event-driven agent runs.
- Proliferate runs agents through their native harnesses.
- Proliferate can be deployed with Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and air-gapped operation.
- Funes is a new tool providing a durable, local memory layer for coding agents.
- Funes indexes agent session traces to allow agents to recall past decisions and rationales.
- Funes supports Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes agents.
- Funes can travel to a Hugging Face dataset owned by the user, private by default.
- Funes is a single binary with no ML runtime dependency for its default inference backend.
- Claude Code runs on Firecracker microVMs.
- Claude Code's VM uses a custom-built guest kernel (6.18.5-fc-v20).
- Claude Code's VM init is a Rust binary named process_api.
- process_api listens on vsock port 2024 to allow host control.
- Geiger is a new open-source command-line tool.
- Geiger inventories AI agents, harnesses, MCP servers, plugins, and extensions.
- Geiger identifies what each AI component can access and execute.
- Geiger is installed via `npx geiger-scan`.
- Geiger does not require installation, an account, or telemetry.
- Geiger reads configs and directories, and writes nothing by default.
- Geiger can output to a JSON file.
- An open-source agent harness gained 200,000+ GitHub stars in three weeks in August 2026.
- The harness's plugin ecosystem passed 13,000 repositories in three weeks.
- Geiger found 9 findings across 3 ecosystems on a machine.
- Geiger reported 7 components could execute code and 1 credential was found.
- OtoDock released a self-hosted platform for collaborative agents.
- OtoDock allows agents to perform tasks, interact with tools, and work autonomously.
- OtoDock is multi-tenant by design.
- OtoDock offers four modes for sharing agents and their work.
- OtoDock provides a self-hosted dashboard and phone line interaction for agents.
- OtoDock agents run on user's Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions, and local models.
- OtoDock agents have a name and a job, like Personal Assistant or System Admin.
- OtoDock agents are made of six editable parts.
- AgentsDock is an IDE for agentic AI research.
- AgentsDock supports macOS 14+.
- AgentsDock allows researchers to manage multiple AI agents.
- AgentsDock allows connecting to various servers.
- AgentsDock allows accessing development tools from any device.
- AgentsDock aims to centralize AI research workflows.
- AgentsDock server is installed via git clone from ZhengyiLuo/AgentsServer.git.
- AgentsDock allows side-by-side chat with different agents.
- AgentsDock allows viewing and editing code on the remote.
- AgentsDock provides full terminal access from anywhere.
- Skillsync transfers AI chat sessions between different AI coding agents.
- Skillsync converts proprietary session formats to prevent vendor lock-in.
- Skillsync collects and makes all user sessions searchable.
- Skillsync identifies loaded skills used by agents in sessions.
- Skillsync allows creating shared workspaces for team session syncing.
- Skillsync's core is an open-source Rust engine called txcript.
- Claude Code's Projects feature allows managing multiple agents in a single cloud environment.
- Claude Code Projects enable coordinated AI agent teams with shared memory and goals.
- Claude Code Projects have 'threads' for parallel tasks and a 'coordinator' for overall progress.
- Each thread in Claude Code Projects works on its own branch and repo copy.
- Claude Code Projects resolve overlapping code work as merge conflicts.
- Claude Code Projects will support local threads in the future.
- Claude Code reads AGENTS.md if CLAUDE.md is absent.
- Claude Code added CLAUDE_GATEWAY_PROXY_IS_EGRESS_BOUNDARY=1 for egress through a forward proxy.
- Claude Code added an optional headers map on gateway upstreams for static headers to a proxy.
- Claude Code fixed sessions hanging after internal errors.
- Claude Code fixed conversations failing with "text content blocks must be non-empty".
- Claude Code fixed unexpected logouts when an older build runs on the same machine.
- A 'Chief of Staff' pattern separates orchestration from execution for long-horizon AI coding agents.
- The 'Chief of Staff' pattern uses a coordinating session to manage tasks and verify outcomes.
- The 'Chief of Staff' pattern stores state externally to overcome context limitations and unreliable self-reports.
- Grok Build added memory on September 16.
- Grok's memory uses Markdown files in workspace and global scopes.
- Claude Code's auto memory keeps a MEMORY.md index plus one file per note, per repository.
- Claude Code's auto memory is on by default.
- Claude Code's Projects beta was announced September 17.
- Claude Code's Projects beta is for select Pro and Max subscribers with no existing projects.
- drawgent integrates AI coding agents with Excalidraw.
- drawgent allows generating and modifying diagrams using natural language commands.
- drawgent connects to Claude Code, Codex, or opencode installations.
- drawgent uses a screenshot and scene to allow agents to look at the canvas.
- drawgent requires Node.js >= 18 for Claude and Codex bridges.
- drawgent setup command configures agents.
- drawgent up command starts a new agent session and canvas.
- drawgent up --attach connects to a running session.
- drawgent writes configuration to ~/.config/drawgent/config.toml.
- opencode speaks ACP itself.
- Claude Code and Codex use official ACP adapters.
Overview of New AI Agent Management Tools
Developers now have access to two new terminal-based utilities designed to streamline the use of AI coding agents. Agent-Manager provides a terminal user interface (TUI) for running and monitoring multiple AI coding agents concurrently, while Wallfacer focuses on organizing and managing the session files generated by these agents.
Agent-Manager: Concurrent Agent Execution
Agent-Manager allows users to run AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Grok side-by-side, each within its own tmux session. This setup ensures that agents continue to operate even after the manager is closed. The tool centralizes monitoring, displaying a live status list of all sessions, grouped into a project tree.
Users can send prompts directly to an agent's pane, spawn new agents, and revive dead sessions. Agent-Manager also includes a feature to open a full-file diff of changes made by an agent, with syntax highlighting, and allows comments on lines to be sent back to the agent.
Wallfacer: Organizing AI Coding Sessions
Wallfacer is a terminal session manager for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Kiro CLI, and Codex. It addresses the issue of scattered and unorganized session files by indexing them. Claude Code stores conversations as JSONL files, Kiro CLI uses a flat folder, Cursor CLI buries chats in hash-named directories, and Codex files rollouts by date.
Wallfacer provides a unified interface to name, tag, group, search, resume, or delete these sessions from a full-screen browser or the command line. It operates in a read-only capacity, never modifying the agents' original files.
Installation and Compatibility
Agent-Manager can be installed via `brew install yoanwai/tap/agent-manager` (which installs tmux if missing) or `go install github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager@latest` (requiring Go 1.26+ and tmux). It is also available for download from Releases for macOS and Linux (amd64/arm64). Status detection is supported for Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and Grok Build, with configuration options for other CLI tools.
Updates
- drawgent integrates AI coding agents with Excalidraw.
- drawgent allows generating and modifying diagrams using natural language commands.
- drawgent connects to Claude Code, Codex, or opencode installations.
- drawgent uses a screenshot and scene to allow agents to look at the canvas.
- drawgent requires Node.js >= 18 for Claude and Codex bridges.
- drawgent setup command configures agents.
- drawgent up command starts a new agent session and canvas.
- drawgent up --attach connects to a running session.
- drawgent writes configuration to ~/.config/drawgent/config.toml.
- opencode speaks ACP itself.
- Claude Code and Codex use official ACP adapters.
- Grok Build added memory on September 16.
- Grok's memory uses Markdown files in workspace and global scopes.
- Claude Code's auto memory keeps a MEMORY.md index plus one file per note, per repository.
- Claude Code's auto memory is on by default.
- Claude Code's Projects beta was announced September 17.
- Claude Code's Projects beta is for select Pro and Max subscribers with no existing projects.
- A 'Chief of Staff' pattern separates orchestration from execution for long-horizon AI coding agents.
- The 'Chief of Staff' pattern uses a coordinating session to manage tasks and verify outcomes.
- The 'Chief of Staff' pattern stores state externally to overcome context limitations and unreliable self-reports.
- Claude Code reads AGENTS.md if CLAUDE.md is absent.
- Claude Code added CLAUDE_GATEWAY_PROXY_IS_EGRESS_BOUNDARY=1 for egress through a forward proxy.
- Claude Code added an optional headers map on gateway upstreams for static headers to a proxy.
- Claude Code fixed sessions hanging after internal errors.
- Claude Code fixed conversations failing with "text content blocks must be non-empty".
- Claude Code fixed unexpected logouts when an older build runs on the same machine.
- Skillsync transfers AI chat sessions between different AI coding agents.
- Skillsync converts proprietary session formats to prevent vendor lock-in.
- Skillsync collects and makes all user sessions searchable.
- Skillsync identifies loaded skills used by agents in sessions.
- Skillsync allows creating shared workspaces for team session syncing.
- Skillsync's core is an open-source Rust engine called txcript.
- Claude Code's Projects feature allows managing multiple agents in a single cloud environment.
- Claude Code Projects enable coordinated AI agent teams with shared memory and goals.
- Claude Code Projects have 'threads' for parallel tasks and a 'coordinator' for overall progress.
- Each thread in Claude Code Projects works on its own branch and repo copy.
- Claude Code Projects resolve overlapping code work as merge conflicts.
- Claude Code Projects will support local threads in the future.
- AgentsDock is an IDE for agentic AI research.
- AgentsDock supports macOS 14+.
- AgentsDock allows researchers to manage multiple AI agents.
- AgentsDock allows connecting to various servers.
- AgentsDock allows accessing development tools from any device.
- AgentsDock aims to centralize AI research workflows.
- AgentsDock server is installed via git clone from ZhengyiLuo/AgentsServer.git.
- AgentsDock allows side-by-side chat with different agents.
- AgentsDock allows viewing and editing code on the remote.
- AgentsDock provides full terminal access from anywhere.
- OtoDock released a self-hosted platform for collaborative agents.
- OtoDock allows agents to perform tasks, interact with tools, and work autonomously.
- OtoDock is multi-tenant by design.
- OtoDock offers four modes for sharing agents and their work.
- OtoDock provides a self-hosted dashboard and phone line interaction for agents.
- OtoDock agents run on user's Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions, and local models.
- OtoDock agents have a name and a job, like Personal Assistant or System Admin.
- OtoDock agents are made of six editable parts.
- Geiger is a new open-source command-line tool.
- Geiger inventories AI agents, harnesses, MCP servers, plugins, and extensions.
- Geiger identifies what each AI component can access and execute.
- Geiger is installed via `npx geiger-scan`.
- Geiger does not require installation, an account, or telemetry.
- Geiger reads configs and directories, and writes nothing by default.
- Geiger can output to a JSON file.
- An open-source agent harness gained 200,000+ GitHub stars in three weeks in August 2026.
- The harness's plugin ecosystem passed 13,000 repositories in three weeks.
- Geiger found 9 findings across 3 ecosystems on a machine.
- Geiger reported 7 components could execute code and 1 credential was found.
- Claude Code runs on Firecracker microVMs.
- Claude Code's VM uses a custom-built guest kernel (6.18.5-fc-v20).
- Claude Code's VM init is a Rust binary named process_api.
- process_api listens on vsock port 2024 to allow host control.
- Funes is a new tool providing a durable, local memory layer for coding agents.
- Funes indexes agent session traces to allow agents to recall past decisions and rationales.
- Funes supports Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes agents.
- Funes can travel to a Hugging Face dataset owned by the user, private by default.
- Funes is a single binary with no ML runtime dependency for its default inference backend.
- Proliferate is an open-source, self-hostable platform.
- Proliferate runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Grok.
- Proliferate provides isolated git worktrees for each task.
- Proliferate supports subagents that delegate work to child agents.
- Proliferate offers integrations for MCPs, skills, Computer Use, and Browser Use.
- Proliferate includes workflows for recurring and event-driven agent runs.
- Proliferate runs agents through their native harnesses.
- Proliferate can be deployed with Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and air-gapped operation.
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drawgent integrates AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or opencode with Excalidraw, allowing users to generate and modify diagrams using natural language commands. This tool enables developers to create visual representations directly from text prompts or by interacting with existing drawing elements.
Claude Code's AGENTS.md feature, intended to provide project instructions, failed to load when telemetry was disabled due to a remote feature flag dependency. This issue, affecting versions up to 2.1.277, meant the feature was unavailable unless specific environment variables were unset or overridden via session settings. The problem has been addressed in version 2.1.280, where the feature is now enabled by default.
A test compared the memory capabilities of xAI's Grok Build and Anthropic's Claude Code by evaluating their ability to retain information across sessions. The analysis focused on whether these AI coding agents could recall previously provided facts when performing new tasks without explicit reminders.
A new organizational pattern, dubbed 'Chief of Staff', addresses the limitations of long-horizon AI coding agents by separating orchestration from execution. This approach uses a coordinating session to manage tasks and verify outcomes, storing state externally to overcome context limitations and unreliable self-reports in AI coding workflows.
Claude Code now supports reading AGENTS.md files when CLAUDE.md is absent, and introduces new gateway proxy configurations. The update also addresses several bugs, including issues with session hanging, conversation failures, and update checks.
Claude Code relaunched its Projects feature, enabling users to manage multiple AI agents with shared memory, goals, and files within a single cloud environment. This update allows for coordinated AI agent teams, with individual threads handling tasks and a coordinator managing overall progress, aiming to improve efficiency for complex assignments.
Skillsync has launched a new tool that allows users to transfer AI chat sessions, including messages, reasoning, and tool calls, between different AI coding agents. This aims to address the issue of vendor lock-in by converting proprietary session formats, enabling users to switch agents without losing conversational history and accumulated knowledge.
AgentsDock, an IDE for agentic AI research, has been released, offering a unified workspace for AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. It allows researchers to manage multiple AI agents, connect to various servers, and access development tools from any device, aiming to centralize AI research workflows.
OtoDock released a self-hosted platform for collaborative agents, allowing companies to deploy AI agents powered by Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The platform enables agents to perform tasks, interact with tools, and work autonomously within a company's operations.
A new open-source command-line tool named Geiger has been released, which inventories all AI agents, harnesses, MCP servers, plugins, and extensions on a machine. The tool identifies what each AI component can access and execute, addressing the growing security concerns around the proliferation of AI agents with broad permissions.
An analysis details the virtual machine (VM) infrastructure enabling mobile AI agents such as Claude Code, highlighting how these agents run on cloud-provided VMs rather than locally on user devices. This approach offloads computational demands from mobile phones and allows AI companies to manage the execution environment.
Funes is a new tool that provides a durable, local memory layer for coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes. It indexes agent session traces to allow agents to recall past decisions and rationales, addressing the problem of agents forgetting previous work.
Proliferate is an open-source, self-hostable platform that allows users to run various coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Grok in parallel within a single workspace. This tool provides isolated environments for each task, enabling concurrent execution and management of different AI coding assistants.
Wallfacer is a new terminal session manager designed to organize and manage coding sessions from various AI agents, including Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Kiro CLI, and Codex. It addresses the challenge of scattered and unorganized session files by providing a unified interface for searching, grouping, and resuming past interactions, improving developer workflow with AI coding tools.
Agent-Manager is a new terminal user interface (TUI) that allows developers to run and manage multiple AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Grok within individual tmux sessions. This tool centralizes the monitoring and interaction with these agents, enabling users to send prompts and review changes from a single interface.