Bohay vs Unspaghettit

Bohay and Unspaghettit are both cli coding agents tracked by AIDiveForge. Below is a side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, platforms, and ownership — sourced from each tool's live website and verified before publishing.

Bohay

The tool gives you a single interface to watch every agent's real status, not what the CLI reports but whether the process is actually doing work. File leases prevent overlapping edits before they're even assigned; isolated git worktrees keep agents from colliding on the same checkout; a test gate must pass before a task merges. Sessions survive terminal restarts, and each agent reloads its own chat history without you repasting flags. The orchestration board tracks dependencies so tasks wait for upstream work to clear the quality gate before they start.

Unspaghettit

Orbit wraps each coding-agent invocation in a bounded loop: it selects a dependency-ordered task from a backlog, runs the agent, then gates advancement on passing tests, lint, and type checks — not on the agent's self-report. Every run writes structured JSON artifacts and a human-readable progress log, so you can inspect what changed and why a task closed or stalled. The deterministic replay demo runs without an API key, which means you can verify the harness behavior before committing any agent credits. The ceiling appears when your workflow needs anything beyond CLI-compatible agents — there is no API and no visual interface.

Attribute	Bohay	Unspaghettit
Pricing	Free	Free
Free trial	No	No
Open source	Yes	Yes
Has API	No	No
Self-hosted option	Yes	Yes
Platforms	Terminal, macOS (notch panel)	Linux, macOS, Windows (Python-based)
Pros	File lease system prevents overlapping edits from being assigned in the first place, so two agents cannot be handed the same path — without this, the collision only surfaces after both agents have already written conflicting changes. Sessions persist across terminal restarts and each agent reloads its own chat history automatically, so a dropped connection or accidental close does not mean repasting context flags and reconstructing state by hand. Isolated git worktrees per task mean agents work on separate copies of the repo, so a half-finished feature branch cannot break another agent's passing tests mid-run. The quality gate requires your test command to pass before a task counts as done and before its branch merges, so broken code does not land in the shared checkout without you catching it. macOS notch integration surfaces every agent's live status and blocked requests in a native panel, so you can approve an agent without context-switching away from whatever you were doing.	Proof-gated task closure — tests, lint, and type checks must pass before an orbit advances — which means you stop shipping agent output that looked correct in the diff but broke downstream. Structured JSON artifacts on every run (agent-result.json, evaluation.json, review.json, progress.md), so debugging a failed orbit means reading a file rather than reconstructing what the agent did from memory. Agent-neutral adapter contract, so you can run Claude and Codex against the same task backlog and compare evaluation scores instead of arguing from anecdotes. Deterministic replay demo requires no API key, which means the harness itself is verifiable in CI before any live agent is connected — reducing the risk of paying for agent credits on a broken setup. Dependency-aware backlog selection keeps each agent invocation scoped to one task, which means you avoid the compounding errors that come from letting an agent chain across unverified intermediate states.
Cons	No API is available, so any team that needs to query agent status from an external dashboard, trigger tasks from a CI pipeline, or hook bohay into an existing internal tool hits a hard wall — the only integration surface is the terminal interface itself, and teams with that requirement switch to an orchestration layer that exposes a programmatic interface. The tool is terminal-first and currently targets Mac for the notch feature; teams on Windows are directed to an alternate install path with no equivalent native monitoring surface, and the vendor page offers precious little detail on Windows parity. Orchestration depends on a test command as the quality gate — teams without a reliable automated test suite get no meaningful gate, meaning the merge protection the orchestrator promises is only as solid as the tests backing it.	Orbit requires agents that speak JSON over CLI. Agents with proprietary APIs, browser-based interfaces, or non-CLI outputs cannot be connected without writing a custom adapter — a task the docs acknowledge but leave entirely to the contributor. There is no hosted option, no REST API, and no web interface. Teams that need to hand off agent monitoring to non-engineering stakeholders, integrate Orbit into an existing SaaS workflow, or run it without local infrastructure have no path forward within the current scope. The harness assumes a test suite exists and is the source of truth for correctness. Repositories without meaningful test coverage get validation gates that pass trivially, which defeats the proof model entirely — at that point teams are back to trusting agent self-reports. Teams that need agents running in parallel across multiple tasks, conditional branching based on intermediate outputs, or cross-agent handoffs will hit the single-orbit-at-a-time design ceiling quickly. When that happens, the documented response is to build on top of Orbit or move to a more full-featured orchestration layer — at which point Orbit becomes a sub-component rather than the primary harness.

Bottom line

Bohay and Unspaghettit are closely matched on pricing model, openness, and API availability — pick by feature set and platform support in the table above.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Bohay and Unspaghettit?

Bohay is Free and open source, while Unspaghettit is Free and open source. Compare pricing, free trial, API, platforms, and pros/cons in the table above on AIDiveForge.

Is Bohay better than Unspaghettit?

It depends on your workflow. Use the side-by-side attributes (pricing, open source, API, self-hosted, platforms) to decide. AIDiveForge does not rank a universal winner — we publish verified facts so you can choose.