Polter
A terminal where one AI CLI supervises the other AI CLIs
Details
- External ID
- 1250517
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Polter
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Running Claude Code, Codex, and other AI CLIs side by side, I kept hitting two problems: an agent quits mid-task, and sub-agents fudge their status reports. Polter is a Ghostty fork with an MCP layer where one AI CLI supervises the others — opening tabs, assigning tasks, and reading their screens. Workers report into a group chat and shared task list. If a worker stalls, the supervisor is notified; if the supervisor goes quiet, Polter nudges it too. Fully offline, no accounts, MIT licensed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal supervisor for multiple ai clis
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping terminal emulators is possible, forking and modifying a complex terminal codebase like Ghostty (written in Zig) to hook into PTY buffers, coordinate IPC, and manage automated screen reading robustly is technically demanding.
What it would actually take: A production version requires modifying terminal internals (typically C or Zig) to expose deterministic terminal state, escape sequence capture, and headless screen buffers via a custom RPC/MCP protocol. The supervisory logic needs reliable ANSI parsing, automated terminal session multiplexing, and robust prompt/error detection without hallucinating terminal state.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 230 days after the earliest competitor.
- agent-harness · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Concord · hn · 2026-08-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Filer AI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Vigilator · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Lazyagent · hn · 2026-04-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Agentic Orchestrator, a TUI for long-running coding agents · hn · 2026-06-30 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- AGENTS.lock · hn · 2026-01-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Catenary · ph · 2026-09-08 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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