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I think every single one of us who use more than one agent locally has built something like this. There is definitely a need, and appreciate it being 100% free, but eventually, something needs to be so good and with so much community best practices in it, that it will beat a DIY one. E.g. I usually use Claude Opus 5.5 as the "driver" and let it spin cursor, codex, other claude subagents at will for different tasks (this way it always know what is running where). Simply asking it to break down the backlog into a DAG, show which one needs my input, which one is blocked, publish an HTML page and keep it up to date (and sinked with the built in TODO list) is usually all it takes.

I would go as far as making this a skill perhaps, so I can get the same results on other projects... but not sure what is the benefit of making it a Mac only binary, it can be a simple HTML / jsx, with maybe hooks or a /loop to keep it up to date.

A solution needs to be really better than what I can ask Claude to build in 20 minutes. It's not the "someone else spent time and thought and tokens so you don't have to" which does have some value, it's knowing that whatever I try, it will be a little different from what I want, and the energy to fork it, tweak it, is too high vs just asking Claude to build it for me on the spot...

tl;dr Definitely cool, definitely needed, but the bar for everything (including free and open source) has gone extremely high. Things that would become beloved de-facto "industry standard" tools a la "oh are you still using X everyone is using Y" just a few years ago, are now shrugged as a vibe coded lunchtime project (the new weekend project)

It's impossible to impress anyone anymore. I feel dead inside. We all got accepted to hogwarts and we became desensitized to having magic powers.