I created something similar, fully open source, using the ideas behind scrolling window managers. There's currently no website as I'm actively using it to work on a different project. It has features such as a shortcut (command+.) to open an overlay menu that allows you to switch to any split just by typing a letter and a number. Throughout the app. It also has optional vim bindings, support for different models and agents (e.g Claude, Codex, etc via ACP), and much more. There're bugs, but if you run into any, feel free to let AI create a PR. Goes without saying that it's vibe coded.
This looks really cool, especially on the remote control part. I've experienced exactly the same problem, but ended up building my own tool through an opposite architectural approach than Saggar.
The main difference is that I want to keep my existing workflow in Kitty and tmux/zellij. Since all of them provide solid remote control protocol, I wrote captain-miao (https://github.com/hyperlogue/captain-miao) which is a standalone TUI app that runs inside these terminals, observing the agent sessions, managing tabs and windows, and allow me to quickly jump to the exact window/tab that needs my attention. The sessions are still native windows/panes inside the terminal/multiplexer that I configured and polished for years.
One difficulty I found when trying to expanding the agent support beyond claude code and codex, many agents don't provide a good way to inject hooks to listen to the session status change. wondering how Saggar solves this problem. do it infer state from the screen buffer?
Just an anecdata: I really dislike the Cursor IDE's session/worktree handling, but my company only provide Cursor licences. So I'm using herdr, cursor cli ("agent"), a custom workflow skill that reads a manifest of the repos I work with + the setup commands they need.
We have something very similar to this at my company, with the biggest difference being that it integrates with our Jira instance and can organize things around tickets.
I really like your omni search / command bar at the top though, I find it annoying to do something randomly quickly in our app. Now I want to fork it and add that…
Thanks for sharing, it’s really cool and looks nice.
Oh interesting. I do have a feature I've played about with that pulls through GitHub issues/Jira tickets (kind of mirroring the kanban board), and makes it easy to throw AI at it - does your tool go further than that?
Nice design, I look forward to trying it out when I get back to the computer. I don't like kicking off some web server process on localhost and then forgetting about it if I close the browser window.
Any special reason it's Apple silicon only? This seems like something that'd be handy to have on any machine.
Thank you! If there's interest I could look into other OS', I don't rate electron apps and I'd want to do that natively. Plus, I'm personally a Mac user haha.
About your product, nothing to add abt it. It's an incredible idea! Everytime I use my terminal I usually get lost with the many windows I open and I'm pretty sure your platforms can solve this issue!
About your website I'd just suggest that the landing page animation could be something about how the terminal windows are scattered and then, when you gather them all in, let's say, a box it'll then show Saggar logo!
Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.
Specifically for a terminal, i'd really prefer it to be open source.
Primarily for security reasons, but also just so it's easier to avoid slop, in times like this with heavy LLM usage.
Similar kind of idea, similar in terms of features. Obviously there's a big difference in feel, Saggar being a mac app with terminals, rather than living in your existing terminal app, and I think Saggar really makes the most of that difference.
Beyond the UI, monitor & quick run windows, and rich command palette, I think the way Saggar orients your activity around your projects (e.g. a git repo) is really intuitive over the workspace model.
I'm still working on coverage for Pi and OpenCode though!
My suspicion is that Herdr will go this way with the YC relationship; they are keeping the runtime open source - the thing their terminal UI is built on- and there’s no reason cli needs to be their only target. Your app is very nice looking!
I love this but I can’t figure out how to have my two computers have remote control sessions at once from a single phone browser session. Is it possible?
Ok! This is a killer feature / a must for me. I can use Claude code’s remote control, but I can’t do that across my multiple accounts. So having the ability to manage any and all sessions remotely is my goal with a tool like this, if it matches your goals I’d love to see it added. Thanks!
I haven't got a second device to hand to test this right now, but there's was only a small bit of code forcing 1-1 pairing so this SHOULD work now. Feel free to try, or I'll post again once I've had a chance to verify.
i've noticed recently that some agentic TUIs have introduced a dashboard of sorts for different sessions that you access by just pressing left arrow. i wonder if they are trying to solve some of the problems mentioned by the author and whether that would ultimately be the best solution.
I used those dashboards extensively, they are useful! But found that they put visibility at the wrong level. I wanted a view across all my terminals, regardless of which agent or provider they’re running, including terminals where I’m working manually.
As a herdr user, the disposable terminal made me drool. Nice work. Would need to be able to fully customize the colors/font/sizing to make this usable as a daily driver; I take it it's not open source, or I'd put up PR. Good luck with it; nice to see product thinking and sweating the details in dev tools.
Similar in terms of features. I'd see the most meaningful advantage is the user experience, I find myself working significantly faster with Saggar. Beyond the UI, monitor & quick run windows, and rich command palette, I think the way Saggar orients your activity around your projects (e.g. a git repo) is really intuitive over the workspace model.
cool. I'll give it a go. the Companion app sounds like it could be a great way to control this, since my only option right now is directly to controlling only claude sessions.
Before you try stuff like this, from an unknown developer, do you run the codebase through AI to scan for malware, backdoors, etc and build it yourself? I'm always skeptical about running stuff like this now a days.
Sorry you're experiencing that! It's just you and one other users email addresses specifically! Not quite sure why but it seems to be the email sending service not trusting me, specifically when sending to you :/
Claude's RLHF has gone really over the top in recent versions. If you browbeat Claude enough you can get it to start self-censoring, but it takes a lot of training and memory creation. I almost feel bad for it, given the amount of brow-beatings I've performed.
Some people claim setting the writing style will help, but what ever finishing training is provided to Claude seems to leak through no matter what.
I had a funny language issue with Gemini Notebook. The “podcast” it created was pretty good but the “hosts” kept using the word exactly as a response to the other. After the 10th or so time it got annoying.
When I generated another one on the next chapter I prompted it explicitly not to use the word exactly as a response. The male host said something and the female said, “Exactly! I mean… 100%” It’s like it can’t help itself but then tries to correct itself.
https://github.com/terhechte/Cormac
The main difference is that I want to keep my existing workflow in Kitty and tmux/zellij. Since all of them provide solid remote control protocol, I wrote captain-miao (https://github.com/hyperlogue/captain-miao) which is a standalone TUI app that runs inside these terminals, observing the agent sessions, managing tabs and windows, and allow me to quickly jump to the exact window/tab that needs my attention. The sessions are still native windows/panes inside the terminal/multiplexer that I configured and polished for years.
One difficulty I found when trying to expanding the agent support beyond claude code and codex, many agents don't provide a good way to inject hooks to listen to the session status change. wondering how Saggar solves this problem. do it infer state from the screen buffer?
I have purposefully kept things quite tight for my own sanity, but I think it makes sense market-share wise at the moment.
At the moment I'm also assuming that if someone is using Cursor AI tooling/Grok, they're probably using Cursor IDE and terminals in there.
I am planning on looking into integrating Pi.dev, which I love the philsophy of (though don't use personally just because API usage costs so much).
I really want to use this, but I definitely don't trust a vibe coded relay to my shell.
I really like your omni search / command bar at the top though, I find it annoying to do something randomly quickly in our app. Now I want to fork it and add that…
Thanks for sharing, it’s really cool and looks nice.
Thanks :)
Any special reason it's Apple silicon only? This seems like something that'd be handy to have on any machine.
I'll look into it again!
About your website I'd just suggest that the landing page animation could be something about how the terminal windows are scattered and then, when you gather them all in, let's say, a box it'll then show Saggar logo!
Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.
It's a great call out, I'll take a look at that shortly.
In general, lots of code equals lost of bugs.
If I had had fish setup in the /etc/shells correctly, it probably would have used it but after the fact, I can get it to load but it doesn't stick.
I was hoping this would satisfy a need so I didn't have to build a full tool myself. Kiln looks interesting, too.
Beyond the UI, monitor & quick run windows, and rich command palette, I think the way Saggar orients your activity around your projects (e.g. a git repo) is really intuitive over the workspace model.
I'm still working on coverage for Pi and OpenCode though!
Thank you!
I open source a lot of projects (https://github.com/mcclowes) so my first instinct was to, and I'll consider that in the future!
EDIT: I'll probably ask this exact question everytime someone posts a new agentic terminal manager.
EDIT EDIT: looks like there's some form of companian app, that's kind of cool. Will have to check this out later.
Not pedantic; helpful! You seem nice.
I am begging Claude to stop treating the English language this way.
Some people claim setting the writing style will help, but what ever finishing training is provided to Claude seems to leak through no matter what.
When I generated another one on the next chapter I prompted it explicitly not to use the word exactly as a response. The male host said something and the female said, “Exactly! I mean… 100%” It’s like it can’t help itself but then tries to correct itself.
I will admit I've been more focused on the app itself!