About

Ouijit is a desktop app for running coding agents in parallel. It aims to be focused, made with care, private, and independent.

I'm Prentice Bjerkeseth and I make Ouijit. I use it for all of my own work, including on Ouijit itself.

Focused

Running several agents at once means more code arrives than you can comfortably read, and the work shifts to keeping track of it. A tool for this should protect your focus and your judgement as that volume goes up, rather than ask for more of both.

Ouijit is for engineers who direct many pieces of work at once and read what comes back. It is deliberately not a tmux-style grid of panes, and it is not an editor. If either of those is what you want, Ouijit will probably frustrate you.

Made with care

Terminals sit in a stack, one on top of the next. Each project has its own avatar, so you can tell where you are. Starting a task creates the branch and the worktree, so the checkout is never something you think about. These are small choices, and most of the work goes into ones like them.

The agents themselves run as the CLIs they already are, in real terminals. Their capabilities and tooling move fastest at the command line, and I don't want Ouijit to lag behind them by wrapping them. A chat interface is planned. It will sit on top of the terminal.

Private

There is no account and no login. There is no telemetry. I don't think a tool like this should require either, and I don't think you should have to give up privacy to get something well made.

Independent

Ouijit is free. If it ever charges for something, it will be a feature with an inherent running cost beyond my time, such as hosted workspaces or sync. The app itself will stay free.

It is open source under AGPL-3.0. I wanted it open, and I wanted anyone who changes it and offers it to others to have to publish those changes.

Many tools in this category are raising venture money, getting acquired, or shutting down. I intend for this one to still be standing, still free, and still private, and to build something special as an individual.