You Don't Need a Better Chat Multiplexer for AI Agents

You Don't Need a Better Chat Multiplexer for AI Agents(blog.adrq.dev)

2 points by adrq 26 days ago | 4 comments

AlexC04 26 days ago |

this is pretty interesting - just from the screenshots it looks like an electron app?

have you or had you considered pursuing a vscode extension? (and by extension cursor?)

In my free time I'm also building out a set of agentic tools and I've found that there's so much you get "for free" by working in the space where developers already are.

Git integrations, text editing, highlighting, etc...

Now - I'm still in pre-alpha local development only so who knows what my adoption story will look like after I actually get it onto the vscode marketplace, but I dunno - just making converstaion I guess :D

Anyways, this really seems like an interesting project and I'll take a deeper look outside of office hours! Thanks for sharing.

AlexC04 26 days ago | |

oooh! I really like your graph! https://github.com/adrq/agentbeacon/blob/main/docs/screensho... I'll have to pok in and see what you're using for that!

adrq 26 days ago | | |

Thanks! d3-hierarchy for the tree layout, rendered with custom SVG in Svelte.

adrq 26 days ago | |

Thanks! Stack is simpler than it looks. It's a local Rust server that opens in your browser, with embedded frontend (`agentbeacon` → localhost). Desktop shell is planned but not shipped yet.

On the VSCode / Cursor extension angle, I thought about it a lot. Once you're running hierarchies of agents across multiple features in parallel, the work shifts away from any single file or repo. The editor is still a surface, but it's one surface for one thread. The decision queue is a surface for the fleet. An IDE extension would make it hard to manage multiple projects at the same time. There is probably some room for a lightweight glue extension eg jump from queue entry to file or something like that.

That said, you're dead right that there's huge "for free" wins in the IDE space, which is exactly why everyone converges there, though it comes with its own constraints.

Good luck with the pre-alpha. Would be curious to see it when you ship. Thanks for taking a look.