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Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

80 points by eiopa 14 hours ago | 21 comments

Hey everyone,

Inspired by Herdr, I've built an agent multiplexer that I've been using as my daily driver for a few weeks now.

I think I improved on the concept in a few ways, focusing on the ergonomics I always wished I had:

I show you what the agents are up to, along with a running feed of their activity. There's also a simple shortcut (F1) to go to the next unread agent.

I use multiple accounts, so I've added unified launcher for Codex/Claude Code/Pi. Theres some careful ergonomics there: fast search and resume over sessions, inline usage tracking etc.

Many small quality of life improvements to the terminal experience: - Links can be copied with a click, so no need to drag-select over many lines - cmd+v just pastes images (even on SSH) - images have a thumbnail preview. - Built-in CPU/Memory/GPU usage tracking, broken down by workspace

I assume you have access to cheap inference (Luna/Haiku/etc). It just reuses the agents to organize things for you: what is this http link? what is this worktree about? what is each agent doing? It's small but it made my environment feel more cozy.

On a personal note, I've been on a frustrating sick leave for a while now. I created Corgi to challenge myself, and see if I can go back. The answer is more mixed than I had hoped, but I am happy with the result and thankful for the experience.

I hope you like it! a few friends & myself have been using it for a few weeks and it's been pretty nice. There's still a lot to improve and some rough edges, so feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you :)

dewey 37 minutes ago

I know naming is hard, but there's another YC company with that name from a recent batch: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgi-insurance

JakeSc 9 hours ago

Looks awesome! Will give it a try. I've built something similar, just open-sourced it:

https://exawatt.ai

I'm big on agent ergonomics. Cool to see what others are doing in the space.

eiopa 9 hours ago

Thats very kind of you :)

Hope you like it!

For the website, it would be helpful to have either a screenshot or a "sandbox" thing so I can play with it a bit

xfalcox 5 hours ago

I've been using herdr and this looks like a v2 of it. Will give it a try.

pokpokpok 9 hours ago

Been using this for about a month, for me it’s been a great replacement for cmux with good simple design

troupo 36 minutes ago

> cmd+v just pastes images (even on SSH)

This is such an useful feature and I'm surprised so few tools bother to implement it.

robsalasco 8 hours ago

please add it to brew, I don't like to use bash scripts https://nocurlbash.com/#en

eiopa 5 hours ago

Yeah I am not a fan of curl bash either, but installing via most package managers (brew, npm etc) isn’t much better, since most of these skip sandboxing rn.

Maybe I am missing something, but the second you run the code, it has the same powers and risk profile as a bash curled from the internet. Maybe something about having explicit versioning?

(as an aside, I think this will change very soon…)

mikemcquaid 3 hours ago

Homebrew is heavily sandboxed and has been using the macOS sandbox for the best part of a decade, long before many other package managers did.

We also offer a .pkg installer and other installation options so curl | bash not needed for install that either.

eiopa 3 hours ago

TIL! Thank you :)

I’ll take a look then, as I am unsure how sandboxing will interact with this system since it does a few unusual things

esafak 8 hours ago

I'm glad someone made this site! Another good registry is https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua-registry

Lord_Zero 7 hours ago

How much of this could be plugins to herdr?

eleventen 7 hours ago

Probably very little. Herdr’s plugin system is quite limited and immature compared to something like Pi. I love herdr and use it daily but it has its limits.

Nice to see people experimenting. I’m not really an early adopter but hopefully the good ideas get picked up by herdr

alexellisuk 2 hours ago

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manume 2 hours ago

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pang_claw 3 hours ago

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syngrog66 7 hours ago

its existed for a few weeks (and was vibe coded, I assume) and... you're announcing it to the entire world?

dang 6 hours ago

Why not?

Jaxkr 3 hours ago

Bless you dang, you keep the spirit of this website alive and fight back the always-encroaching cynicism of the world.

syngrog66 5 hours ago

counterpoint: why?

;-)

crossroadsguy 5 hours ago

At this point any coder that forgot (or rather deliberately chose not to) to tell their agent

    'oh btw, add the light theme as well and maybe read the system's, if that's not such a bother of course'

isn't worth the time, and they probably didn't bother about the 'a' of accessibilty/ux in the first place anyway, neither is their tool no matter how famous it is or would become.

eiopa 4 hours ago

There's a built-in theme called "Animal Style" that adapts to your terminal's existing theme by picking up & extending its palette, and specifically tries to adapt to light themes as well :)

It works ~alright in light themes, but not as well considered as the default one yet which is why it's not the default.

Can you give it a try?

crossroadsguy 4 hours ago

I was talking about the website.