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Developers managing multiple artificial intelligence coding tools can now use a command line program named Agent Manager to control several automated assistants inside a single terminal workspace. According to the project's official documentation, the open source utility relies on tmux to run sessions for popular terminal based assistants such as Claude Code, OpenCode, and Gemini without requiring users to navigate complex submenus or separate windows. Users can trigger new tasks across different directories, send immediate text replies to blocked sessions, and monitor agent progress directly from a centralized list interface.

For software creators, switching between different coding models often creates friction and clutters the desktop with dozens of terminal tabs. Agent Manager streamlines this workflow by grouping tasks, detecting status changes through automated hooks, and allowing developers to review code diffs or isolate changes into git worktrees with simple keystrokes. By letting different software agents run simultaneously across various projects, developers can treat AI tools less like individual chatbots and more like an organized team of background workers.

While the system simplifies running multiple assistants at once, it remains unclear how well developers can track concurrent edits when several AI tools modify interdependent parts of a large software project. As developers increasingly delegate complex programming tasks to parallel background processes, managing merge conflicts and verifying code quality could quickly become a bigger bottleneck than starting the tasks themselves.