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Developers who prefer terminal workflows
Running three coding agents in parallel is fine until one silently stalls, another stomps on the same file, and you're tabbing between four terminals trying to figure out which pane belongs to which task. bohay is the terminal-based control layer built to stop that.
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.
Bottom line: Pick bohay when you're coordinating two or more coding agents on a shared repo and need conflict prevention plus persistent sessions — plan around it when your workflow lives outside the terminal or requires an API for external tool integration, since no API is available.
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Developers who prefer terminal workflows
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Developers preferring fully local agent execution
Most teams running parallel coding agents discover the coordination problem only after it bites: two agents edit the same file, a session dies and takes context with it, and there’s no single place to see who’s blocked and why. bohay is a terminal-based control interface — open source, AGPL-3.0 licensed, free — that puts every agent’s live status, file activity, git operations, and task dependencies into one pane. Install via shell script, Homebrew, or Cargo. The core loop is watching agents, approving blocked actions, and letting the orchestrator sequence dependent tasks through isolated git worktrees.
The orchestration board is the differentiating feature. Each task gets its own worktree and a file lease that prevents any overlapping assignment from even being queued. A configurable test command acts as a quality gate: branches only merge once tests pass, and the merge happens through a dedicated worktree so your working checkout is never touched. The vendor describes dependent task sequencing directly on the board — task four won’t start until tasks two and three clear the gate.
bohay fits developer workflows where the terminal is already home base: solo engineers juggling Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot on the same repo, or small teams coordinating agent work on a shared branch. Mac users get an additional surface — the notch panel mirrors agent status and lets you approve a blocked agent without switching windows. The tool does not expose an API, so external systems cannot trigger or query it programmatically; teams that need bohay’s state surfaced in a dashboard, CI pipeline, or external orchestrator will find that wall quickly.
Remote sessions run over plain SSH with no port forwarding required, according to the vendor docs. The built-in git tab covers commits, branches, pull requests, and issues, and the vendor states you can open or merge a pull request without leaving the interface. The file viewer updates live as an agent edits, tinted by git status, and opens directly into vim, nano, or the editor set in your environment.
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