Coding agents got good. Managing them didn't. I open-sourced the control room I built for it (MIT)
Summary
The author open-sourced o8, an MIT-licensed orchestrator that manages multiple coding agents in isolated git worktrees, with a merge gate, audit trail, and mobile approvals.
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