2026-10-11 17:12 UTC

Independent use will determine whether Captain Miao provides practical terminal-based coordination of multiple coding agents through Kitty and Zellij.

state: expiredheat: lowuncertainty: highknownscott: lowagent-harnesses coding-agents terminal-orchestrationHyperlogue

What is this?

Captain Miao is presented as a TUI dashboard for coordinating multiple coding agents in terminal sessions using Kitty and Zellij. The supplied case attributes the repository’s initial commit to Rick Ye and names Hyperlogue as the key actor, but the snippets do not establish their relationship. The available evidence describes parallel or autonomous agent management, while offering no independent usage results yet to establish practical effectiveness.

Why it matters to Scott

Scott already holds and implements the underlying pattern in “Parallel Agents by Concern” and the Proposal Compiler’s multi-agent orchestration. Captain Miao is currently another terminal UI implementation of that known pattern; without independent usage evidence or established coordination mechanics, it does not yet extend or challenge what he builds.
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queries asked of Scott's wikis
  • multi-agent coding harness orchestration
  • terminal-native coding agent workflows
  • parallel coding agents and worktrees
  • human oversight for autonomous coding agents
  • coding-agent observability and coordination
  • Kitty or Zellij development workflows

Measured heat

no measured readings yet — the hourly heat pass fills this in

How the heat travelled

no chain yet — the hourly chain pass fills this in

Evidence (2) — ⭐ canonical anchor

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🟧 hnShow HN: captain-miao – herding coding agents in your terminal (kitty/zellij)rickye2610
🟧 echo.github ⭐The earliest primary artifact is the repository’s initial commit by Rick Ye. Its README describes captain-miao as “A TUI dashboard for managRick Ye——

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