terminal: ghostty

a fast, native terminal that does the job. not much else to say.

multiplexer: herdr

a terminal multiplexer that makes it easy to see the status of all your agents.

harness: pi

a minimal, configurable coding harness that ends up saving you a lot of money in addition to being a delight to use. my favorite plugins are autoresearch, sidequest, zen-tui, web-access, and pi-welcome-screen. for a more bespoke out-of-the-box experience, use OMP (oh-my-pi). it’s great!

diff viewer: hunk

a review-first diff viewer for agent-written changes. you can annotate changes directly to your agent. it also has skills so your harness can interact with it.

orchestration: smithers.sh

durable orchestration for long-running agent workflows. it’s configurable and yours. no provider lock-in, and your agent of choice can configure workflows in plain english.

background agent: hermes

a persistent, self-improving agent by Nous Research. i don’t use it as a coding harness personally, but some do. i run it as an executive assistant, financial advisor, health tracker, researcher, and sysadmin on one of my servers through its built-in discord gateway.

mobile: moshi

a mobile terminal for remote coding agents, with a first-class tailscale + herdr experience.

networking: tailscale

private networking between your machines. not much to say about this either, but with hunk + moshi + tailscale you can program on your phone from anywhere.

editor: neovim

if you still need an editor. i use lazyvim with a few cherries on top.