Two Rust-native AI coding agent harnesses. One cross-agent message bus. The question: is it better to stitch together hcom + ante for inter-agent messaging and offline coding, or run a single jcode all-in-one binary?
hcom is a cross-agent messaging layer (SQLite-based). It’s a bus that lets different agents talk to each other — Hermes hands off a coding task to hcom, which routes it to whichever agent instance is available.
I spent some time digging into the current landscape of tools for two related problems: visual task management for AI agents (kanban boards that understand agents) and agent-to-agent communication (how agents talk to each other).
Some of these I already run day-to-day. Others are new to me. Here’s what I found.
Links & Stats 👉 https://github.com/BradGroux/veritas-kanban
The coding agent space is moving fast. Really fast. It feels like every week there’s a new agent claiming to be faster, cheaper, or smarter than the last. I spent some time digging through the latest entrants to see what’s actually novel and what’s just another Claude Code wrapper.
Here’s what I found.
Before diving into the agents themselves, there’s an important backdrop: the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Think of it as MCP but for agents — a standard way for IDEs, CLIs, and other tools to discover, authenticate, and communicate with coding agents.
If you self-host anything, you’ve had the sinking feeling: I forgot what I deployed where. Two open-source projects promise to solve that, but they take radically different paths to get there.
Scanopy (5.2K★) is a Rust daemon + JS UI that auto-generates network topology diagrams — L2 physical maps, L3 logical subnets, workload container trees, and application dependency graphs. It launched ~10 months ago and is the new hotness.
NetAlertX (6.8K★) is a Python/PHP asset intelligence framework that’s been around since late 2021. It discovers devices, tracks changes, fires alerts via 80+ notification gateways, and integrates with Home Assistant, Prometheus, and arbitrary webhooks.
PocketBase is a single Go binary that gives you a full backend out of the box — SQLite-backed REST API, real-time WebSocket subscriptions, auth (OAuth2, email/password), admin UI, and file storage. 60,374★ on GitHub, MIT licensed.
Links & Stats 👉 https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase
No Docker, no database server, no config files. Just ./pocketbase serve and you’re running. This lines up perfectly with the no-daemon philosophy — one static binary, nothing else to manage.
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