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Bb: The IDE for loop driven development

Bb, a new MIT-licensed IDE for loop-driven development, orchestrates coding agents and automations locally on the user's machine, supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Pi. It runs on existing provider subscriptions, is free and open source, and installs in under a minute.

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. Re-running the suite.Orchestrate your coding agents. Drive it yourself, or let your agents and automations drive it for you.

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. Re-running the suite.The same CLI your agents use is open to any program you write: a shell script, a cron job, or your own Hermes Agent or OpenClaw bot in Telegram, Signal, or Slack. Each can spawn a thread that’s waiting in your sidebar when you are.

It runs on your machine, and is waiting for you when you’re back.

Schedule an automation to run an agent or a script on cron. Point one at your tracker and it kicks off a thread for every new issue, or run nightly docs, changelogs, error triage. All on your machine, not someone else’s cloud.

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Pi all live in bb. Give a task to whichever fits, and have one agent spawn and manage another, each in its own thread.

Each runs on your own subscription: the provider plan you already pay for, billed by them, not bb.

bb is MIT-licensed end to end. Fork the repo, customize the agents, tools, and UI, and deploy your own build across your whole organization. It still runs local-first on your machines, on the provider subscriptions you already pay for.

Free, open source, and local-first. Install in under a minute.

Product updates and what we’re building next. No spam.

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