Birdhouse

Open source IDE where AI agents coordinate as a team

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Hey Product Hunt, Birdhouse team here! Here's what running multiple AI agents actually looks like today: you get one agent to build a plan and write a PRD to disk, then you build a loop, spinning up fresh agents that each read the plan, do one piece of it, save progress to disk, and exit. The files are how they "talk." The agents are doing the work, but you're the one figuring out how they pass notes. Birdhouse is built around a different idea: pull together the perfect team of agents for the task at hand, give each one ownership of their slice, and let them coordinate directly. Want to make sure your database migration has exactly the right indexes for the UI your frontend agent is building? In Birdhouse, those two agents can talk it out directly and agree before either writes a line of code. Every agent in the tree is full power. You can step in, take over, or clone from any point in any conversation without touching the main thread. One person. A coordinated team. No single agent holding too much. In other tools, cloning a chat separates it from its source. You are left managing which agents are working on related problems in tmux grids or UI tabs. Birdhouse renders every agent under the one that created it, forming a live tree. In the best case, that tree is the implementation of a feature: a searchable, navigable record of every decision and direction explored. We've also obsessed over the quality-of-life stuff that makes orchestrating agents actually pleasant: - Agent navigation: drill into any agent as a modal, stack them infinitely deep, close and you're right back where you were. It's the difference between navigating away and peeking in. - Provider agnostic: unlike Claude Code, each workspace can run a different model. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, use the right one for the job, not the one you set up first. - Workspaces: full context separation. Work, personal, OSS: different keys, tools, skills, agent history. Nothing bleeds over. - Themes! We support the VScode theme you already use. Pair it with one of our UI themes that fits best. - Skills with trigger phrases: your natural language becomes a search tool for your own saved workflows. You won't realize how natural it feels until you try it. Just open sourced today. MIT, macOS, one install script. What does your multi-agent setup look like, and what features would you need to see in Birdhouse to make the switch?