Multistack – Lightweight TUI for orchestrating coding agents

Multistack, a lightweight terminal UI for orchestrating multiple zerostack coding agents, has been released as an open-source competitor to Conductor. It allows users to spawn, monitor, rename, and kill parallel agents with live status tracking and TTY access.

Run multiple zerostack https://gi-dellav.github.io/zerostack/ agents side by side in your terminal, allowing to spawn, watch, rename, kill all underlying processes. Multistack is designed to be a native, lightweight and open-soruce competitor to Conductor https://www.conductor.build . Spawn parallel agents : each one gets its own PTY, running zerostack --parallel under the hood Live status tracking : see at a glance who's working ~ , done ✓ , dead X , or waiting , with per-agent timers Drop into any agent : hit Enter on a process to see its full terminal output, keystrokes pass straight through Status signal support : multistack listens for start / stop signals from zerostack via Unix sockets, so timers and indicators stay accurate even across headless loop iterations brew tap gi-dellav/tap brew trust gi-dellav/tap required for Homebrew 6.0.0+ brew install multistack zerostack installed automatically curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gi-dellav/multistack/main/install.sh | bash cargo install multistack You need zerostack https://gi-dellav.github.io/zerostack/ on your PATH, plus a recent Rust toolchain. | Key | Action | |---|---| n | Spawn new agent — prompts for a name, creates a git worktree | N | Spawn new agent in parallel mode — no prompt, jumps straight to TTY | m | Spawn bare agent — no worktree, no --parallel , jumps to TTY | p | Add project — opens directory picker | l | Remove project and all its agents | h | Open lazygit in the project or agent worktree directory | s | Open $SHELL in the project or agent worktree directory | r | Rename selected agent | d | Delete kill selected agent | Enter | Drop into the selected agent's TTY | ↑ / ↓ | Move selection | PageUp / PageDown | Jump to previous / next project header | q | Quit | Esc | Quit press twice if agents have git conflicts | | Key | Action | |---|---| Esc | Return to agent list | All other keys | Forwarded to the underlying process | | Key | Action | |---|---| Enter | Confirm | Esc | Cancel | Backspace | Delete last character | Printable chars | Append to input | | Key | Action | |---|---| Enter | Add selected directory as a project | Esc | Cancel, return to agent list | / | Start filtering directories type to narrow, Esc to clear | All other keys | Navigate the file tree | Linux/BSD/macOS uses Unix domain sockets and PTYs zerostack v1.5+ built with the status-signals feature default from v1.5 - Rust 1.85+ 2024 edition GPL-3.0-only