Show HN: Watch all the AI agents on your machine(github.com)
6 pointsby turblety21 hours ago2 comments
  • 927tanmay18 hours ago
    nice one, been looking for something like this. how does it handle a harness updating its file format down the line, do you have to manually track each one's internals or is there a more general way you're detecting sessions?
    • turblety23 minutes ago
      Hey, yeah I have two rules:

      1. I don't want to extend the the harnesses in any way, not even hooks/plugins/etc 2. I don't want to poll, ever. It must be system events, file system watches

      So I have to basically watch each session file from every harness for changes and derive a state from that.

      Most CLI's have a file per process with some stats like the pid, state, is idle or not, etc, which is really helpful.

      Each agent has a small provider that knows how that specific harness works, and watches it for changes. e.g. ~/.claude/sessions/{pid}.json

      Those registries are small and change much less than transcript formats do.

      But yeah, I think this will always be a matter of keeping it up to date.

      I would like to retain support for older harness versions as I go.

  • amit240312 hours ago
    why would i not build this tool myself as these are agents running on my machines so i would be aware of which agents are running?
    • turblety22 minutes ago
      Yeah go for it. It was really fun to build and I learned a lot about how these harnesses work. Definitely recommend building something like this.

      For me, the use case is in my Remote Terminal app I'm building [1].

      I have an agents sidebar that shows every running agent on the machine with the state. So I end up creating a kanban like board for all the agents based on if it needs my attention, is done or still working.

      1. https://terminay.com