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Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

https://getbaton.dev/
15•tordrt•1h ago
Hi,

I built this because running multiple Claude Code agents across multiple IDE and terminal windows was getting messy. Like many, I went from working at one thing at the time, to multiple, and it was all changing quite fast.

I needed one place to see all my agents and worktrees, seamlessly switch between them, monitor their status and once their done, review their changes. I also wanted to quickly spin up new agents in isolated worktrees whenever an idea came to mind.

I've been building Baton from within Baton for a while now, which has been a pretty fun loop. Would love to hear what you think!

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twostorytower•26m ago
Congrats on your launch! How is this different than Conductor?
FrankRay78•20m ago
If nothing else, I see that Conductor is currently Mac only.
giwook•7m ago
Would be curious if it is more polished than Conductor. Memory leaks and random bugs seem to crop up in Conductor far too often.
tordrt•3m ago
The main difference is that Baton is agent-agnostic and terminal-native. It doesn't add a GUI on top of Claude Code or Codex, it builds around the terminal itself, so you run whatever agent CLI you want natively, but with convenient shortcuts for launching them. Which is a nicer experience in my view, but people have different views on this.

Baton is also more git-aware. Instead of just showing raw diff line counts, you see commits ahead and behind your target branch, so you can tell at a glance how far each workspace has diverged and shortcuts for resolving it in the matter you want.

One thing I think is unique is the built-in MCP server. It lets agents spawn new workspaces programmatically, so you use an agent to launch agents in new isolated workspaces.

toastal•23m ago
> Features

It’s blank. Lots of blank gray rectangles too. Site is broken?

sausajez•11m ago
Please review the site design. Between the thin blue lines appearing & disappearing, and the "television static" in the background I gave up attempting to read anything in the first 30 seconds on the site because my eyes were drawn anywhere other than the content.
drewfis•8m ago
Go away, I'm baitin'!
throwaw12•7m ago
This looks impressive!

How do you restore the state from the old workspaces? do you spawn tmux and resume the conversation or do you do it differently? from the video it felt like instant

jeffrwells•4m ago
I started building a similar project for myself, a terminal PTY running through a desktop daemon: https://youtu.be/6KY-HCn3SaA

The fun part being it worked on mobile too: https://youtube.com/shorts/CmemwDGwpx8?si=xzAJBb8ha7DLIDmY

It was more of a tool for myself but some interest from others inspired me so iterating on it. People interested in this kind of thing should join my slack! https://monetworkspace.com/terminal

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Markdown as an intermediate format for LLM pipelines is underappreciated. It strips noise while preserving structure.
riskable•1m ago
How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
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I have seen teams spend months fine-tuning retrieval algorithms when the real issue was that their ingestion pipeline was feeding HTML boilerplate into the vector store. Fix the input first.
zephyrwhimsy•56s ago
The observability stack (logs, metrics, traces) is often an afterthought but should be a first-class architectural concern. You cannot improve what you cannot measure, and you cannot debug what you cannot observe.

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