Agent of Empires
Shares rank 21 of 26 agent orchestrators by recommenders
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.
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.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Manages many AI agent sessions
“managing them in aoe honestly does sort of feel like my worker management strategy”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager” “using aoe (or whatever tool you can find for session management) is the key unlock”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager” “using the ios + termius + aoe setup to just keep tasks moving forwards”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager” - Comment from 12 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager”
Works from web and phone
“using the ios + termius + aoe setup to just keep tasks moving forwards”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager” “has nice web and phone. Tmux based, which I dig.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Jeeves – TUI for browsing and resuming AI agent sessions”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Only works single-player
“This is quite nice but limited in that it is single-player.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode and claudecode session manager” Feels not quite right yet
“doesn't feel quite right, but is in the right direction”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?”
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The four most recommended other agent orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“has nice web and phone. Tmux based, which I dig.”
“agent-of-empires has become my daily driver”
“Now you can optionally enjoy being told “wololo” when Claude needs to you to confirm your plan”
“doesn't feel quite right, but is in the right direction”
“it corrupted my entire tmux session, leaving me to have to recreate the entire thing”
“using the ios + termius + aoe setup to just keep tasks moving forwards”
“the main view of aoe works decently”
“using aoe (or whatever tool you can find for session management) is the key unlock”
“This is quite nice but limited in that it is single-player.”
“managing them in aoe honestly does sort of feel like my worker management strategy”
“Tbh that's exactly what I'm using aoe for”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.