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Agentty

Shares rank 3 of 5 terminal coding agents by recommenders

Recommended for running several coding agent sessions in parallel, with git handling built in. One critic raised a risk of account bans from its Claude OAuth use.

Recommended for running several coding agent sessions in parallel, with git handling built in. One critic raised a risk of account bans from its Claude OAuth use.

9 people gave an opinion

recommend it
7
criticize it
2
approval share
78%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 2 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
  • Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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

  • Runs many parallel sessions smoothly

    “I also can easily run 10-15 sessions with no issues on my macbook air M5.”

    Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

    “I tried up to 10 in parallel which worked pretty good for me”

    Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

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What people said

8 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“Helpful and powerful tool for true engineers”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“I also can easily run 10-15 sessions with no issues on my macbook air M5.”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“all the git overhead is handled by agentty”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“I tried up to 10 in parallel which worked pretty good for me”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“really sped me up 3-5x compared to classic pure agent CLI development”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“We develop Agentty ADE (Agentic Development Environment) using Agentty only.”

RecommendsComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Agentty ADE: reliable L2 multi-agent orchestrator”

“This looks interesting and the authors other project look great too.”

RecommendsComment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Agentty – A drop-in alternative to claude-code, written in C++26. 11.0 MB binary”

“Wouldn't using Claude Oauth like this cause your account to get banned”

CriticizesComment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Agentty – A drop-in alternative to claude-code, written in C++26. 11.0 MB binary”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.