Aether

Munder Difflin is a free, open-source desktop multi-agent harness that runs multiple terminal-based AI coding agents as coordinated local agents. It wraps agents including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, and custom commands, working with users' existing subscriptions and hourly usage limits. Each agent runs as a real node-pty process and is rendered through xterm.js, while an Electron and React interface displays sessions as avatars on a Pixi.js office floor. A GOD orchestrator called Michael assigns and routes work, adjudicates agent messages, and escalates spending, destructive operations, scope changes, and other configured approvals. Agents coordinate through a local Git-backed hive of plain-file memory, atomic mailboxes, a shared blackboard, and an append-only event log; a markdown-first semantic memory layer supports recall across sessions. Optional Git worktrees isolate parallel agents.

Coder is a self-hosted platform for cloud development environments and AI coding agents. It defines workspaces with Terraform and can provision them on EC2 virtual machines, Kubernetes pods, Docker containers, and other infrastructure, connecting users through a secure WireGuard tunnel and automatically shutting down idle resources. Coder Agents runs a native AI coding-agent loop in the control plane on the operator's infrastructure. It supports models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon Bedrock, and self-hosted providers without placing LLM credentials in workspaces, while providing centralized model governance, cost tracking, identity on actions, and audit logging. Workspaces can be accessed through existing IDEs including VS Code and JetBrains products.

AgentVerse OS is a personal cloud operating system for a developer and their AI agents, installed on an Ubuntu server and accessed through a browser from a laptop, tablet, or phone. It provides a windowed desktop, isolated project workspaces, browser-based VS Code and a terminal, and supports Claude Code and Codex agents whose work remains on the server. Each project runs in an isolated Incus container with Docker inside, its own network and access gate. A Rust core coordinates projects, workspaces, capabilities, applications, backups, and updates; Coder controls the workspaces, Komodo deploys application stacks, Caddy provides the entry points, and Tailscale supplies private access and certificates. Projects request capabilities such as S3 storage, an LLM gateway, or notifications, which the core connects to provider networks and exposes through environment variables. The system includes a store combining catalogs from Runtipi, Coolify, and Umbrel, with guided installation, logs, snapshots, rollback, and application updates. It also supports ZFS snapshots, restic backups, an embedded Svelte desktop PWA, and one-command installation from a release package or source. The project is in alpha, is designed for one person, has no user accounts or permissions yet, and requires a clean Ubuntu installation and a Tailscale account. The repository is licensed under Apache-2.0; store applications retain their own licenses.

Multi-Agent Workbench is a local-first browser control room for orchestrating coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and generic PTY-based command-line agents. Agents work in task rooms under editable YAML role cards that define permissions, speaking style, and decision boundaries; a rule-driven orchestrator pauses execution and risky commands for human approval, while persistent sessions expose terminal activity and status. The system uses a local event-driven architecture with a React interface, Fastify backend, REST API, server-sent events, agent adapters, an approval service, and a SQLite event store. Every action passes through the API and is recorded in an append-only event log, whose events are projected into timelines, decisions, terminal views, artifacts, and diff views. It also provides task templates, Markdown reports and decision logs, real-time room updates, and configurable risk resolutions. Code-writing agents are intended to use isolated Git worktrees, with diff and patch review before changes reach the main workspace; the repository marks this worktree and merge flow as in progress.

Astra Advisor is a Codex plugin for capability-routed software delivery from DannyMac180. GPT-6 Astra acts as the primary architect and acceptance owner: it plans work, decides whether bounded independent tasks should be delegated, selects supported native subagent models and reasoning effort, and continues parent-session work while delegations run. It uses the exposed collaboration tool to route tasks among Sol, Terra, and Luna subagents, then inspects the complete diff, reruns requested checks, and sends substantial changes to a fresh read-only reviewer; work is accepted only after the reviewer returns "ship". Each delegation reports its selected and runtime-observed settings, and tasks can end with an API-equivalent cost receipt that compares observed token usage with a versioned Astra pricing snapshot. It can be installed as a plugin in a current Codex CLI or ChatGPT desktop app with plugins enabled. The README notes that ChatGPT Work cloud tasks currently cannot provide arbitrary model or effort controls, so Astra does not dispatch model-pinned requests there by default.