# Agent of Empires

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Agent of Empires and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free tool for running several AI coding agent sessions in tmux, with web and phone access. Critics note it only works single-player and the UI still feels off.

## Why people recommend it

- Manages many AI agent sessions (4 comments): "managing them in aoe honestly does sort of feel like my worker management strategy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596624)) "using aoe (or whatever tool you can find for session management) is the key unlock" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599184)) "using the ios + termius + aoe setup to just keep tasks moving forwards" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599758))
- Works from web and phone (2 comments): "using the ios + termius + aoe setup to just keep tasks moving forwards" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599758)) "has nice web and phone. Tmux based, which I dig." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788083))

## What people warn about

- Only works single-player (1 comments): "This is quite nice but limited in that it is single-player." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598733))
- Feels not quite right yet (1 comments): "doesn't feel quite right, but is in the right direction" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832020))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Conductor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/conductor.md): 58 recommend
- [Superset](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superset.md): 33 recommend
- [AX by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ax.md): 15 recommend
- [ctx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ctx.md): 13 recommend
- [Zenflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zenflow.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Agent of Empires", https://hackerapproved.com/p/agent-of-empires/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).