Show HN: Ouijit, command terminals running coding agents

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.

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 . The 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. Some things I think are unique about Ouijit: - 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. - 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. - Tasks have lifecycle hooks that can trigger prompts, scripts, or both when tasks start, resume, move to review, or move to done. - You can organize child terminals, markdown, and url previews to terminals. It's a little like Claude artifacts in that way. Supports macOS and linux; integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode agent harnesses. Free and open source, no login, no telemetry. Website: https://ouijit.com https://ouijit.com Github : https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732590 Points: 3 Comments: 0