CLI Manager
Let one AI agent open and drive your other CLI agents
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Details
- External ID
- 1275664
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CLI Manager
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 87
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
CLI Manager now has an AI Control API. Claude Code, Codex or any script can open sessions in CLI Manager, send prompts, wait, and read the screen - in terminals you can watch. Sessions an AI is driving turn green in the sidebar, the orchestrator gets a crown, and Disconnect AI takes control back anytime. Local only (REST + MCP on 127.0.0.1), off by default. Plus everything from launch #1: Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI in one sidebar. Free, MIT open source, macOS.
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer tools for coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cli orchestration agent for terminal tools
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a GUI terminal wrapper is doable, but reliably managing multiple interactive PTY (pseudo-terminal) sessions with programmatic scraping, screen-buffer state tracking, and sub-process lifecycle control across platforms is quite intricate.
What it would actually take: Built on Electron or Tauri with native node-pty or Rust portable-pty bindings, xterm.js for rendering, and a local RPC/REST server exposing session controls. The hard engineering challenges include terminal emulation state-machine parsing (ANSI escape sequences), accurate headless screen-scraping of curses/TUI applications, and robust process termination/isolation. Requires deep systems programming experience with OS-level pseudo-terminals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 705 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 706 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Helm · github · 2026-09-20 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Parallel Agents · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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- Codey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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