axel.md
Agent orchestration in the terminal, designed for Rex
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Threads and named agents, back in the terminal. Axel orchestrates Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode agents on Rex: durable sessions, status the terminal understands, and your other machines over Tailscale.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 76 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 468 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI that manages sessions and named agents by wrapping existing CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) with tmux-style process handling and Tailscale for remote machines is doable with standard tooling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1050 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 1051 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- OpenClawdex · hn · 2026-04-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Agentic Orchestrator, a TUI for long-running coding agents · hn · 2026-06-30 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Use Any Agent as an Orchestrator · hn · 2026-07-09 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- agent-orchestration-standard · github · 2026-10-18 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- codex-cc-orchestrator · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Mudroom · ph · 2026-10-28 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Nix Agents · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Agentty · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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