Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)

129 points by eiopa 1 day ago

Hey everyone,

Inspired by Herdr, I've built an agent multiplexer that I've been using as my daily driver for a few weeks now.

I think I improved on the concept in a few ways, focusing on the ergonomics I always wished I had:

I show you what the agents are up to, along with a running feed of their activity. There's also a simple shortcut (F1) to go to the next unread agent.

I use multiple accounts, so I've added unified launcher for Codex/Claude Code/Pi. Theres some careful ergonomics there: fast search and resume over sessions, inline usage tracking etc.

Many small quality of life improvements to the terminal experience: - Links can be copied with a click, so no need to drag-select over many lines - cmd+v just pastes images (even on SSH) - images have a thumbnail preview. - Built-in CPU/Memory/GPU usage tracking, broken down by workspace

I assume you have access to cheap inference (Luna/Haiku/etc). It just reuses the agents to organize things for you: what is this http link? what is this worktree about? what is each agent doing? It's small but it made my environment feel more cozy.

On a personal note, I've been on a frustrating sick leave for a while now. I created Corgi to challenge myself, and see if I can go back. The answer is more mixed than I had hoped, but I am happy with the result and thankful for the experience.

I hope you like it! a few friends & myself have been using it for a few weeks and it's been pretty nice. There's still a lot to improve and some rough edges, so feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you :)

rhuss 26 minutes ago
Looks great, thanks for sharing!
One question: Have you thought about a voice relay that uses e.g. a local Whisper model ? I found the system-level dication mode of macOS quite unreliable, so have a homegrown own solution (via a Zellij plugin and a running voice relay). I wonder, is this a too-special use case or something people or something generally useful ?
antouank 18 hours ago
Great effort, thank you so much.
There are some very nice features there. And more polished/modern than herdr for sure. Would love to be able to use it as a daily driver.
Cannot switch to it though, mainly because, from what I understand, it doesn't sync/connect with other machines like herdr does. As in, seamlessly. Theme-ing (light/dark) adaptation seems a bit clunky as well. And huge TS files in the source code are not encouraging for how this will scale, or how many bugs will come up.
Still, I appreciate sharing your work with everyone. Thank you.
- eiopa 17 hours ago
  Thank you for your kind words!
  I work off of several machines, and the lack of native remoting has been frustrating for me so it’s the next big thing to add :)
  Can you share the theme clunkiness you’re seeing? I tried to avoid having another theme system for users to config, but maybe these adaptive tricks won’t quite cut it.
  My email is toasty.tal@gmail.com
  The huge ts files are indeed concerning, but in practice are more resilient than I had expected. They do eventually break down though, and I have been refactoring the systems as they reach their limits. (the last one was a breaking up agent providers into modules, motivated by wanting to support Pi and OpenCode)
JakeSc 1 day ago
Looks awesome! Will give it a try. I've built something similar, just open-sourced it:
https://exawatt.ai
I'm big on agent ergonomics. Cool to see what others are doing in the space.
- eiopa 1 day ago
  Thats very kind of you :)
  Hope you like it!
  For the website, it would be helpful to have either a screenshot or a "sandbox" thing so I can play with it a bit
- sthimons 15 hours ago
  Having Tom Cruise's likeness in the footer of your site is just asking to be sued
  - manume 13 hours ago
    Haha, I immediately thought the same thing when I saw it!
zeugmasyllepsis 14 hours ago
I plan to look into this deeper today, but truth be told I saw the little animation at the top of the page and paused.
Throwing the ball and watching this little character run was truly a delightful interaction. For whatever part you had in its creation, thank you.
- eiopa 13 hours ago
  Thank you for your kind words and so happy you liked it!
  I put a lot of small touches like that throughout the app. It just makes me feel cozy inside haha.
gillesjacobs 19 hours ago
Testing it out, looks good, it does seem to have some repaint/flicker bugs. I was running a customized simple Tmux sessions tabs with agent harness updates over AgentPulse hooks but this might replace that.
Let's see if I can add in some of required version control/git tooling. Might have some PRs incoming for you soon.
- eiopa 18 hours ago
  Ooh can you get a repro on those repaint/flicker bugs?
  I do have some very basic git tooling in there but would be awesome to beef it up :)
xfalcox 1 day ago
I've been using herdr and this looks like a v2 of it. Will give it a try.
dewey 22 hours ago
I know naming is hard, but there's another YC company with that name from a recent batch: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgi-insurance
- nlitened 19 hours ago
  You will be delighted to discover it's also a dog breed!
  - dewey 15 hours ago
    Slightly different namespace.
pokpokpok 1 day ago
Been using this for about a month, for me it’s been a great replacement for cmux with good simple design
aryanthakor 13 hours ago
I've been using herdr + omp for my agent sessions, I really like the prefix key and how easily I can edit it, does it have the similar prefix? Looks promising I will definitely give it a try. Thank you very much :)
- eiopa 13 hours ago
  There's a herdr-like keymap, and I even migrate your workspaces, tabs, panes and live processes!
  I haven't used OMP before. Let me take a look :)
robsalasco 1 day ago
please add it to brew, I don't like to use bash scripts https://nocurlbash.com/#en
- bmacho 21 hours ago
  OTOH I'd encourage anyone who thinks that curl bash is a good idea to keep distributing their stuff via curl bash.
- eiopa 1 day ago
  Yeah I am not a fan of curl bash either, but installing via most package managers (brew, npm etc) isn’t much better, since most of these skip sandboxing rn.
  Maybe I am missing something, but the second you run the code, it has the same powers and risk profile as a bash curled from the internet. Maybe something about having explicit versioning?
  (as an aside, I think this will change very soon…)
  - mikemcquaid 1 day ago
    Homebrew is heavily sandboxed and has been using the macOS sandbox for the best part of a decade, long before many other package managers did.
    We also offer a .pkg installer and other installation options so curl | bash not needed for install that either.
    eiopa 14 hours ago
    ok I read up on the sandbox. IIUC, this applies to the installer/formula part. The app itself is still unsandboxed.
    I can see that it closes one vector of attack (attacking the install script serving), but beyond that the user still runs the binary outside a sandbox.
    I feel that the binaries themselves, both directly and indirectly (supply chain attack) are the elephant in the room.
    Any thoughts on that? I always wished the cli stuff I install from Homebrew was locked down by default, but it's not practical with today's computer systems since it kills usability.
    Anyway, big fan of Homebrew. Looks like I can't submit a formula to core until I get more traction on GitHub (stars/forks/watchers). Otherwise I have to go to taps which takes away a lot of the benefits of being on homebrew-core iiuc.
    eiopa 1 day ago
    TIL! Thank you :)
    I’ll take a look then, as I am unsure how sandboxing will interact with this system since it does a few unusual things
- esafak 1 day ago
  I'm glad someone made this site! Another good registry is https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua-registry
BElluu 12 hours ago
Windows will be supported in the future ?:)
- eiopa 12 hours ago
  It works indirectly via WSL2!
  Last time I tried Windows though, coding agents were pretty finicky on native Windows for some reason. Maybe this gap is closed now though!
  If you have the tokens to spend, please give it a try. I am curious to see how well it will work. The toolchains it uses, Bun & Zig, do work there, and I think most of the system tricks have Windows equivalents
pantelisk 20 hours ago
Brilliant work! Testing it now
linsomniac 15 hours ago
When I first saw this I though "Meh, I'm happy with Herdr", but then I saw "paste images, even over SSH" and I've gotta try it. I also REALLY like the website where you can interact with the example screenshot, that's <chefs kiss>.
However (and I know connecting is on the road map), is it possible to have multiple local connections? That's core functionality for me, I run Herdr in one terminal on my workstation, and on my laptop I ssh in (actually "wezterm connect") and run a "herdr attach" so I can access it both from my Mac and my desk. I've never gotten around to trying the herdr native connect from my Mac because that works so well.
troupo 22 hours ago
> cmd+v just pastes images (even on SSH)
This is such an useful feature and I'm surprised so few tools bother to implement it.
Lord_Zero 1 day ago
How much of this could be plugins to herdr?
- eleventen 1 day ago
  Probably very little. Herdr’s plugin system is quite limited and immature compared to something like Pi. I love herdr and use it daily but it has its limits.
  Nice to see people experimenting. I’m not really an early adopter but hopefully the good ideas get picked up by herdr

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