# mngr

5 Hacker News commenters recommended mngr and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free tool from Imbue for running and managing many Claude agents in parallel, with reported success; critics note centralized key, permission and dashboard management is lacking.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs many agents in parallel (2 comments): "run a bunch of agents in parallel and they should be able to smooth out any issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609427)) "have been having a ton of success with it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650237))

## What people warn about

- Lacking centralized key and permission management (1 comments): "The centralised key and permission management and agent dashboarding is severly lacking though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000095))

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## Cite as

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