Nimbalyst open source Obsidian, Codex app, and Linear for coding agents
Details
- External ID
- 48108137
- Source
- HN
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- Product
- Nimbalyst open source Obsidian, Codex app, and Linear for coding agents
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 12, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4168012924071082
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi, I'm Karl. Greg and I spent the last year building Nimbalyst, an open-source local desktop workspace for working with coding agents.We want to give agents and humans one place to work together with maximum bandwidth and context, instead of Obsidian for plans, Excalidraw for diagrams, Codex app or Conductor for session management, and Linear for tasks. So we integrated:- Visual editors for markdown, diagrams, mockups, data models, CSV, code, and your own custom extensions- Red/green diff review with per-block accept/reject when an agent makes changes- Session manager with parallel sessions, kanban, search, resume, and links from sessions to the files they touched- Task tracking where agents and humans create, update, and execute tasks linked to files and sessions- Developer features like a terminal, worktrees, visual git, and agent-driven commits and branchesNimbalyst supports Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode (alpha), and Copilot (alpha) through a pluggable provider system.The desktop and iOS apps are MIT; the collab server is AGPL.Repo: https://github.com/nimbalyst/nimbalystWebsite: https://nimbalyst.comI'd welcome your feedback and contributions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source tools for coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a basic Electron or Tauri app combining a note editor, canvas, and agent task list is feasible, but combining multi-agent context synchronization, local indexing, and real-time canvas coordination is an extensive engineering undertaking.
What it would actually take: A complete desktop workspace like this requires Electron/Tauri, an extensible canvas engine (e.g., based on Excalidraw or custom WebGL/Canvas), a CRDT or transactional local storage layer (such as SQLite or Automerge/Yjs), and a resilient agent bridge (over MCP or native stdio/IPC) managing agent sessions, context windows, and file-system mutations without race conditions. Solo vibe coders will struggle to keep state in sync across a multi-pane canvas, document editor, and external autonomous terminal processes.
Discussion
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Same idea, different domain
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