{"slug": "show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents", "title": "Show HN: Ouijit, command terminals running coding agents", "summary": "Ouijit, an open-source terminal-based coding agent orchestrator, launched on Hacker News. The tool provides sandboxed task execution via Lima VMs, session-scoped CLI awareness for agents, and lifecycle hooks, supporting macOS and Linux with no login or telemetry.", "body_md": "Hey folks, I started working on Ouijit around the start of the new year, and its since become the daily driver for myself and a handful of other engineers (that I know of).\n\nThe initial reason I built it was over dissatisfaction with how most agent orchestrators abstract stuff behind chat UIs, require login, or only support their companies own model/harness. I didn’t want to keep cobbling together scripts for worktree isolation between tasks though, so the yak shaving began. A couple weeks in, I received a message from a friend sharing that they just finished an 8 hour session working in it and they really liked it, and that they’d even shared it with their coworkers unprompted. I’ve been a software engineer/designer for ~10 years and its hard to put into words how rewarding that felt.\n\nSome things I think are unique about Ouijit:\n\n- Sandboxing is a first-class consideration, Ouijit supports running tasks in per-project Lima VMs. Right now I'm looking into making sandboxing pluggable so you can bring-your-own agent environment local or in the cloud, with a few baked in defaults.\n\n- Integrated agents are automatically aware of a session-scoped CLI that enables them to orchestrate and drive tasks from any Ouijit terminal, with no additional setup.\n\n- Tasks have lifecycle hooks that can trigger prompts, scripts, or both when tasks start, resume, move to review, or move to done.\n\n- You can organize child terminals, markdown, and url previews to terminals. It's a little like Claude artifacts in that way.\n\nSupports macOS and linux; integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode agent harnesses.\n\nFree and open source, no login, no telemetry.\n\nWebsite: [https://ouijit.com](https://ouijit.com)\n\nGithub : [https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit](https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732590](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732590)\n\nPoints: 3\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit", "published_at": "2026-06-30 13:37:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 13:50:07.664783+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Ouijit", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Pi", "OpenCode", "Lima"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ouijit-command-terminals-running-coding-agents.jsonld"}}