Nimbalyst
Agent workspace in AI tools
Free, local visual workspace for running and tracking multiple Claude Code and Codex sessions, with red/green diffs. Caveat: some gaps, and one critic disputes its open-source status.
5 people recommended Nimbalyst in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 13 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 11 of those comments still count.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- mixed feelings
- 1
- warn against or regret it
- 1
The record
Recommended in 7 of 12 months
In 9 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 9 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 40% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 11 of the 12 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free, local, open-source
“Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex”
Comment from 22 Apr 2026 in “SpaceX and Cursor partnership. Right to acquire Cursor later this year” “Nimbalyst is in Beta, local, and free. We would love your feedback.”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Local WYSIWYG Markdown, mockup, data model editor powered by Claude Code” “Multi-sessions, visual editing, open-source”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Claude multisession” Red/green diffs of file changes
“it tracks every file change for you and gives you red/green diffs for your session”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it” “giving red/green diffs on RENDERED markdown files which nobody else has”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo” Manages multiple agents and sessions
“Nimbalyst does a pretty good job. Some gaps but I can manage multiple agents across multiple projects well enough.”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal” “built from scratch to be a proper agent manager”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Karpathy is searching for the Agentic IDE” Visual Kanban board and editors
“It features a visual Kanban board for parallel sessions, visual editors, and it is also an iOS companion app.”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “What GUI or desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Open-source claim disputed
“This is not an open source project.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Nimbalyst: WYSIWYG Markdown editor with visual diffs powered by Claude Code”
What people said
11 of the 12 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Its so nice not to have to app switch all the time.”
“Multi-sessions, visual editing, open-source”
“both of them want to manage the state of each worktree group themselves”
“Nimbalyst does a pretty good job. Some gaps but I can manage multiple agents across multiple projects well enough.”
“It features a visual Kanban board for parallel sessions, visual editors, and it is also an iOS companion app.”
“Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex”
“built from scratch to be a proper agent manager”
“it tracks every file change for you and gives you red/green diffs for your session”
“giving red/green diffs on RENDERED markdown files which nobody else has”
“Nimbalyst is in Beta, local, and free. We would love your feedback.”
“This is not an open source project.”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.