Two open-source tools want to run a team of AI coding agents in parallel, but they pick opposite homes. ORCH is a terminal-native CLI that turns your repo into a mini software company — a CTO agent decomposes goals, engineering agents implement in worktrees, QA auto-verifies, and a reviewer gates merges. Kandev is a self-hosted web workspace — a kanban board wrapped in an IDE where you stay in control of every review gate. Same “orchestrate several agents” pitch, radically different answers.
Two Go SSH tools landed within the last year, both hovering around the same star count, both solving very real pain points. But they’re almost entirely different tools that happen to share a protocol prefix.
Let’s break them down.
Links & Stats 👉 https://github.com/alebeck/boring
A dedicated SSH tunnel manager with a daemon architecture. You define tunnels in TOML, boring open starts them, and a background process keeps them alive with automatic reconnection and keepalives. Supports local, remote, and dynamic (SOCKS5) forwarding, works with your SSH config and ssh-agent, and handles Unix sockets.
