Show HN: Multistack, a TUI environment for parallel coding agents

Multistack, a new open-source TUI environment, lets developers run multiple zerostack coding agents side by side in a terminal, with features for spawning, watching, renaming, and killing processes. The tool, positioned as a lightweight competitor to Conductor, supports live status tracking, per-agent timers, and direct TTY access, and is installable via Homebrew, curl, or Cargo.

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 | | ? / F1 | Scrollable help overlay keybindings, statuses, tips | | q | Quit — shows confirmation with agent counts Enter quits, Esc / n stays | | Esc | Quit confirmation; git conflicts get a warning | | 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