OpenRig
a control plane for multi-agent coding topologies
Details
- External ID
- 48241066
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenRig
- Website domain
- openrig.dev
- Launched
- May 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I’m Mike, the founder of OpenRig.I built this because my Claude Code + Codex setup kept forming little "topologies" of long-lived agents that worked well together, but the terminal sprawl was intense. So I built a primitive the agents could intuitively reach for to save and recreate these setups on the fly. This then led to more agent-first primitives like coordination, declarative workflow patterns, workspaces, etc.Several months in and these "rigs" I manage with openrig require a lot less babysitting and I can manage more projects at once without getting overwhelmed.The short version: OpenRig is a way to save and operate that topology instead of rebuilding it by hand every time.Demo video: https://youtu.be/yCFSRnPDFqY?si=n5e627d0CU3X3bmEGitHub: https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- multi-agent coding orchestration platform
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system is fundamentally a CLI and daemon that coordinates tmux sessions, a local SQLite queue, and a web dashboard, all of which are standard automation scripting tasks well-suited for AI.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Code, Atrium, A2A protocol
Concerns raised: Agent isolation and network/filesystem sharing, Complexity of mental model for users
Feature requests: A2A protocol compatibility, Better documentation on topology organization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 475 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #362 of 476 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
- OpenRig · hn · 2026-04-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OpenTiger · hn · 2026-02-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- 143.dev · hn · 2026-06-30 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Coordination Layer for Coding Agents · hn · 2026-08-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source) · hn · 2026-02-12 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Enoch · hn · 2026-05-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Zenflow · hn · 2025-12-16 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Horizons · hn · 2026-02-06 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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