Let one AI agent open and drive your other CLI agents
CLI Manager now has an AI Control API. Claude Code, Codex or any script can open sessions in CLI Manager, send prompts, wait, and read the screen - in terminals you can watch. Sessions an AI is driving turn green in the sidebar, the orchestrator gets a crown, and Disconnect AI takes control back anytime. Local only (REST + MCP on 127.0.0.1), off by default. Plus everything from launch #1: Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI in one sidebar. Free, MIT open source, macOS.
What if one AI agent could run the rest of them?
Last December I launched CLI Manager to keep all my CLI agents in one place. After that I kept doing the same thing by hand: open a session per repo, paste the task, check back on each one.
So I added an AI Control API. Now my Claude Code session opens one session per repo, they work in terminals I can watch, and it reports back in a table. If anything looks off, I click Disconnect AI and take over.
It's also free and MIT open source now — the two things people asked about most last time. macOS only for now. What would you hand off to an orchestrator first?
About CLI Manager on Product Hunt
“Let one AI agent open and drive your other CLI agents”
CLI Manager launched on Product Hunt on October 13th, 2026 and earned 92 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. CLI Manager now has an AI Control API. Claude Code, Codex or any script can open sessions in CLI Manager, send prompts, wait, and read the screen - in terminals you can watch. Sessions an AI is driving turn green in the sidebar, the orchestrator gets a crown, and Disconnect AI takes control back anytime. Local only (REST + MCP on 127.0.0.1), off by default. Plus everything from launch #1: Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI in one sidebar. Free, MIT open source, macOS.
On the analytics side, CLI Manager competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CLI Manager performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CLI Manager?
CLI Manager was hunted by solhun. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of CLI Manager including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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