Ouijit, an open-source task and terminal manager for coding agents
Details
- External ID
- 48347043
- Source
- HN
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- Product
- Ouijit, an open-source task and terminal manager for coding agents
- Website domain
- ouijit.com
- Launched
- May 31, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.654281098546042
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I’m working on Ouijit.It’s a project and task-based terminal session manager that provides a few basic but useful tools for agent workflows:- Terminal sessions in Ouijit have access to the ouijit CLI, and supported agents (Claude, Codex, Pi) can work with it out of the box to manage tasks and customize a personal development workflow- Tasks live on a kanban board that supports hooks for task lifecycle events (eg. ‘Run this script when a task moves to ‘in progress’)I’ve found this simple combination to be very expressive and flexible for adapting to changing workflows.I made the V1 a couple months ago for fun, and have kept at it since a friend shared they had logged an 8 hour work session in it. Along the way I’ve baked in lots of what I believe are table-stakes for this type of tool, like task isolation via Git worktrees, agent working/idle status with sound and notifications, diff/markdown plan/URL previews, and support for VM sandboxing using Lima.It’s free and open source with no login or telemetry, so feedback is highly appreciated.Github: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit Website: https://ouijit.com
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- task and terminal manager for coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building the Kanban UI and terminal dashboard is straightforward, but robust process sandboxing via Lima VMs and kernel-level isolation alongside zero-copy Git worktrees requires deep systems plumbing.
What it would actually take: The frontend can be built with Electron or Tauri, managing PTY streams via node-pty and controlling Git worktrees via CLI subprocesses. The hard part is orchestrating kernel-level sandboxing (macOS sandbox-exec / Linux cgroups and seccomp) or lightweight VM hypervisors (Lima/QEMU) securely while maintaining low-latency bidirectional IPC and terminal emulation across agent processes. Specialized systems programming and virtualization expertise are necessary.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude
Concerns raised: Parallel agents overwriting each other's edits, Unclear how multiple agents coordinate on distinct tasks
Feature requests: Sandboxed terminal/session per agent, Better documentation on parallel agent isolation mechanics
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 249 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 250 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 208 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager · hn · 2026-01-12 · 118 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Git for AI Agents · hn · 2026-05-08 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Git for AI Agents · hn · 2026-05-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mission Control · hn · 2026-02-26 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents · hn · 2025-12-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Emdash · hn · 2026-02-24 · 206 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.