# Baton

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Baton and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for running several AI agent sessions at once without them interfering, which reduces the mental load of juggling tasks. Critics say the website is hard to understand and that it needs a clearer reason to exist beside similar tools.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs parallel agent sessions cleanly (2 comments): "Trying to optimize for reducing cognitive load for working on different tasks at the same time with agents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888752)) "Nice tool for working multiple sessions without them tripping over each-other." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601058))

## What people warn about

- Website hard to understand (2 comments): "I gave up attempting to read anything in the first 30 seconds on the site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600889)) "It's blank. Lots of blank gray rectangles too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600724))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Paseo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/paseo.md): 70 recommend
- [OpenChamber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openchamber.md): 31 recommend
- [Claude Code Remote Control](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-remote-control.md): 30 recommend
- [Omnara](https://hackerapproved.com/p/omnara.md): 27 recommend
- [Juggler](https://hackerapproved.com/p/juggler.md): 22 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Baton", https://hackerapproved.com/p/baton/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).