August 1, 2026
Herding bots, spilling tea
Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust
One screen to babysit your army of AI helpers — and commenters want in
TLDR: episko is a new app that puts many Claude coding sessions into one easy control panel, so people can monitor a whole batch of AI helpers at once. Early reaction is curious and amused, with the big unspoken debate being whether this is brilliant organization or proof AI coding has become its own full-time babysitting job.
A new project called episko has landed on Show HN with a very clear pitch: if you’ve got a bunch of Claude Code sessions running at once, this gives each one its own little terminal window and corrals the whole chaotic herd into one dashboard. In plain English, it’s a control room for people juggling lots of AI coding helpers at the same time, complete with progress bars, alerts, spending stats, and a giant “which bot needs me right now?” vibe.
But the real action in the community thread is the mood: curious, slightly dazzled, and very much “okay, this is for the power users” energy. The only visible commenter, evolabs, drops a breezy “Would love to know your thoughts on this one, cheers,” which gives the whole thread the feeling of a polite British host opening the door right before the internet either applauds wildly or starts side-eyeing the concept of needing a flight deck for your AI flock. And honestly, that tension is the drama here: some people will see a calm command center, others will hear “you now need mission control to manage the robots writing your code.”
The funniest part is the app itself practically invites memes. It calls the agents a flock, labels itself “the one who watches over,” and shows colorful little workers marching along with token counts and dollar totals like overachieving digital interns. It’s productivity porn for AI maximalists — and catnip for anyone ready to joke that we’ve gone from coding to babysitting an expensive gaggle of robot coworkers.
Key Points
- •The article presents episko as a unified interface for monitoring and managing multiple Claude Code agent sessions.
- •Each Claude Code session is shown with its own terminal, status, progress, tool activity, branch context, and permission state.
- •The interface includes navigation and launch features such as a command palette, keyboard shortcuts, and options to start sessions from repos, worktrees, and branches.
- •A worked example shows an agent updating TypeScript code to add a shortcut for jumping to the next session needing attention and then running a type check.
- •The article highlights analytics features including spend, token counts, sessions, model mix, cache-read composition, top projects, and Claude usage limits.