Multi-agent orchestration tooling is fragmenting fast

Two new tools for managing multiple Claude and Codex agents dropped in the same week: Agent-Manager (a tmux TUI) and a similar project called Herdr, mentioned by a commenter who said it completely changed their dev setup. Both sit alongside the earlier agent-deck project. Commenters immediately asked 'how is this different from X?' for each one, which is both a sign of genuine demand and a sign that no clear winner has emerged.

The tools are all solving the same problem: running multiple long-horizon coding agents in parallel, routing tasks to the right model, and not losing track of what each agent is doing. The fact that three separate teams built essentially the same thing in the same month suggests the pain is real and the solution space is not yet settled.

The counterpoint: tmux-based UIs have a ceiling. A commenter implied that the real orchestration problem is not visibility but reliability, and none of these tools address the underlying brittleness of multi-agent pipelines.