Parallel agents are table stakes. The bottleneck is review — knowing what shipped and why. One dashboard to watch them, answer prompts, read the diff, and merge.
Already running agents in parallel on your Mac? Same branches. Better place to catch up.
$ npm install -g octomux && octomux start
Tools made it easy to spin up parallel work. They didn’t make it easy to review five diffs before lunch.
Agents implement. You decide what merges. Read the diff in-app — not a stack of approve buttons on code you never opened.
Every “allow this?” lands in one place. See what’s running vs waiting on you without hunting terminals.
Agents can start the next task. Claude or Cursor per job. You still ship when you’ve actually looked.
Agentic engineering: AI writes, you review and own the merge. Same flow for one agent or five.
Type what you want, paste a ticket link, or open a draft to tweak the prompt first. Each task gets its own branch so agents don’t step on each other.
Live output per task. Catch up without becoming the person who only clicks “approve” on diffs they never read.
Read the changes in the app, leave comments if you need to, hit Ship. No tab-hopping to GitHub mid-review.
Starting agents is solved. Catching up isn’t. octomux is one dashboard for what happens after they run: permissions in an inbox, status on a board, diffs to read before you ship. Plus Claude or Cursor per task, and agents that can queue the next job.
No. Vibe coding is fine for throwaway prototypes. octomux is for when the code has to be correct — you review the diff, you own the merge, you can explain what shipped.
Yes. Pick Claude Code or Cursor for each task. You can add a second agent on the same branch to review the diff.
Each task gets its own branch, so they don’t collide on your main code. Five agents can work on the same filename in parallel — on separate branches.
No. Everything runs locally. No cloud sync or telemetry.
Run octomux start. Your tasks and review progress come back.
Yes — send a message from the dashboard and it course-corrects without starting over.
Yes. MIT license. You only pay for Claude Code or Cursor.