- ask you for an email

- send you an email

- ask you for a username

- except you cant actually log in with this username directly

- im being forced to learn some new social url protocol

- why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)

- my password manager couldnt bridge the gap

I'm notoriously fickle about dealing with signup/login friction, but the project sounds cool so hopefully my feedback is more actionable than curmudgeony.

[1] https://get.convictional.com/

The initial reason I built it was over dissatisfaction with how most agent orchestrators abstract stuff behind chat UIs, require login, or only support their companies own model/harness. I didn’t want to keep cobbling together scripts for worktree isolation between tasks though, so the yak shaving began. A couple weeks in, I received a message from a friend sharing that they just finished an 8 hour session working in it and they really liked it, and that they’d even shared it with their coworkers unprompted. I’ve been a software engineer/designer for ~10 years and its hard to put into words how rewarding that felt.

Some things I think are unique about Ouijit:

- Sandboxing is a first-class consideration, Ouijit supports running tasks in per-project Lima VMs. Right now I'm looking into making sandboxing pluggable so you can bring-your-own agent environment local or in the cloud, with a few baked in defaults.

- Integrated agents are automatically aware of a session-scoped CLI that enables them to orchestrate and drive tasks from any Ouijit terminal, with no additional setup.

- Tasks have lifecycle hooks that can trigger prompts, scripts, or both when tasks start, resume, move to review, or move to done.

- You can organize child terminals, markdown, and url previews to terminals. It's a little like Claude artifacts in that way.

Supports macOS and linux; integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode agent harnesses.

Free and open source, no login, no telemetry.

Website: https://ouijit.com

Github : https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732590

Points: 4

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Prolix affected me at least once today, I appreciate this.

- I tried it on a repo that has very obvious boosting tells, like 99% of stars from week old or less accounts and it had higher trust signal than my own very much so real project. The issue to star ratio gave 5/5 despite the issues being core contributor created.

- In same vein as above, it seems to prefer open issues over closed ones in the scoring.

Have you considered scoring contributors/authors/issue creators separately to use as a proxy, instead of measuring the core things that are being gamed?

awesome-lists like you see on github seem to be missing, which would be a good inclusion. Although I think many of those curators are suffering a wave of slop right now so maybe not.

It’s a project and task-based terminal session manager that provides a few basic but useful tools for agent workflows:

- Terminal sessions in Ouijit have access to the ouijit CLI, and supported agents (Claude, Codex, Pi) can work with it out of the box to manage tasks and customize a personal development workflow

- Tasks live on a kanban board that supports hooks for task lifecycle events (eg. ‘Run this script when a task moves to ‘in progress’)

I’ve found this simple combination to be very expressive and flexible for adapting to changing workflows.

I made the V1 a couple months ago for fun, and have kept at it since a friend shared they had logged an 8 hour work session in it. Along the way I’ve baked in lots of what I believe are table-stakes for this type of tool, like task isolation via Git worktrees, agent working/idle status with sound and notifications, diff/markdown plan/URL previews, and support for VM sandboxing using Lima.

It’s free and open source with no login or telemetry, so feedback is highly appreciated.

Github: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit Website: https://ouijit.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347043

Points: 13

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I'm curious when I see things more geared toward prose using CodeMirror instead of ProseMirror. Any comment on that decision?

My anecdote (M, 35) is that I got one after experiencing symptoms that turned out to be unrelated, but they did find pre-cancerous polyps so now I will be getting them more regularly. I received received meaningful early detection and peace of mind. Also aside from the prep, its a very convenient procedure. You get put under anesthesia and do a quick time travel.

I'm a bit anxious about putting myself out there, but I'd be curious if my efforts cross that bar for you or not? https://ouijit.com/ (and the repo is at https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit)