One thing about these tools - and, as discussed, there are many - that they mostly seem to share is that they all show coding agents work as a transcript of a conversation.
Why?
The underlying conversation has nothing to do with the work. That there is one context window is an implementation detail.
I've built one of these for myself, and instead it shares questions, plans, findings, assumptions as distinct UI elements. The conversation is hidden: your focus is on "what's next".
Are there other meta-harnesses doing the same thing? I'd love to stop building my own and use a product someone else has already built!
Why not keep building yours? It will quite literally be the same or better than 99% of these tools.
I also don't care much about individual conversations with agents as the main way of managing work, my personal dashboard shows projects (and subdivided by work trees underneath) but I have an orchestrator agent who is the one I talk to 90% of the time and who is responsible for summarizing information from various project manager agents and only update tiles in the dashboard when I actually need to do something, in the form of questions I can answer directly.
Over time as I add more preferences for how to work, the orchestrator sends fewer and fewer requests to me that it can handle itself.
Well, I do love building it... but it's a bit of a time-sink, y'know?
I used Orca for ages and that was great; I'm just tired of having to scroll back through a convo to find that "one last blocking question" that Claude or Codex spit out 15 tool calls and subagent messages ago.
Building my own tool is super fun though...
thats a great point - we will keep that in mind while building offrun.dev