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Show HN: TPS – My highly productive agent manager
2 points1 comment0.3 average comments/hourSubmitted by vanviegen
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I know, everybody and their dog has created an agent manager by now, but I think mine is particularly awesome:
- It runs an agent per task in a Podman container that it can customize itself.
- It embeds a VS Code per task (running in the container), so I can review code or do some manual labor without getting lost in a sea of windows.
- It allows you to organize your tasks on a Kanban board.
- It supports running agents on other machines over SSH. You can close your laptop.
- It allows running services and exposing their ports to your localhost (even over SSH), for testing changes to web apps.
- It optionally manages squashing, rebasing, merging, testing and deployment.
- It's very flexible with tasks: forked tasks, scheduled tasks, follow-ups on already-merged tasks, tasks awaiting other tasks, one-of tasks that are not attached to a project, tasks created by other tasks.
- It allows you to provide tasks with OpenRouter budgets for consulting other models (like audio, video, images).
I've just recorded a demo walk-through video. I'd be very happy to receive any feedback!
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I've tried many options, and for my use case, what works best is as simple as OMP inside Herdr... other bells and whistles just end up being distractions; I keep falling back to simplicity.
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