It’s very common for me to kick off 4 or 5 agents on different tasks nowadays, and it looks like my actual job now is deciding who needs me next. I’m not even mad about it — it’s genuinely more output. The part I underestimated is that supervision doesn’t scale the way execution does. Each agent is fast. Keeping five of them in my head is not. Worktrees solved isolation ages ago, that’s not it. It’s that I have no idea what state anything is in without going and looking. I spent way too long trying to detect it automatically. Output going quiet doesn’t work — Claude Code polls the terminal constantly so it’s never quiet, and its replies land on the input stream, which broke my first attempt entirely. VS Code’s shell integration (OSC 633) turned out to be the answer for command start/end and exit codes. Running vs stuck still needs output inspection, and only after stripping ANSI properly, including the ? and < prefixed sequences, or cursor and mouse noise reads as work. Ended up building a sidebar that shows the whole farm at once. Open source, macOS, link in comments. I did find some other solution to manage them but those were not worth it because of 2 reasons: 1. they didn’t support all agents in native form, 2. they didn’t have vs code embedded in it and this was forcing back to multiple of windows again. Mostly curious how everyone else is running theirs though — how many at once, and how do you keep track? I still feel like I’m doing this badly. submitted by /u/Ecstatic-Night4222
Originally posted by u/Ecstatic-Night4222 on r/ClaudeCode
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