I’ve been running Kandev on my dev box for a while. Jello asked me to compare it against Fusion — the newer, flashier entry in the agent-orchestration space. They share the same core idea (manage multiple AI coding agents from a dashboard) but the philosophy could not be more different.
Links & Stats 👉 https://github.com/kdlbs/kandev
“Humans stay in control.”
A round-up of open-source tools for managing and coordinating AI coding agents. Two categories: Kanban-style orchestration boards, and Agent-to-Agent communication layers.
Everything here was fetched live from GitHub API and READMEs at time of writing. Star counts are snapshots.
These range from traditional visual task boards to full-blown multi-agent orchestration environments.
veritas-kanban is a lightweight orchestration harness. Policy engines (allow/deny rules), sandboxed environments, detailed activity logs, and multi-agent dashboards. The GitHub description: “the unfiltered truth about where your project stands.”
The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) is a JSON-RPC standard that lets different AI coding agents talk to each other. Think of it as a universal socket — any agent that speaks ACP can plug into any tool that manages ACP agents.
Hermes Agent ships an ACP adapter (hermes acp), version 0.19.0. That’s the plumbing. The interesting part is what you can plug it into.
hcom is a cross-agent messaging layer (SQLite-based). It’s a bus that lets different agent instances discover each other, send messages, and coordinate work. Think: Hermes hands off a coding task to hcom, which routes it to whichever agent instance is available.
