LukeW's Team Rewrites and Open-Sources Intent for Hundred-Agent Orchestration

On August 31, LukeW announced that his team's product Intent has been fully rebuilt and open-sourced. The core rationale: software development is shifting from a single person writing code to collaborating with hundreds of Agents at once, and Chat-era app interfaces simply weren't designed for that scale—hence the need for a ground-up redo. The official site positions Intent as a large-scale agent coordination tool for developers: once AI takes over coding, a developer's focus moves up to "setting direction and deciding outcomes"—that is, operating at the intent level.

Confirmed

• Intent is fully open source; LukeW shared the project link
• @Wattenberger redesigned and rebuilt the UI and frontend
• @panghy redesigned and refactored the backend to support performance at scale plus multi-platform, multi-device support
• On September 1, LukeW demoed a case where multiple Agents stayed in sync at extremely high development velocity, covering work like auditing and building APIs

Why it matters

• Intent reflects a concrete bet on the development paradigm of the agent era: developer value shifts from writing code up to intent setting and outcome decisions, and the toolchain needs to be rebuilt around that shift
• Orchestrating a hundred parallel Agents is a frontier challenge in multi-agent engineering today, and open-sourcing lets the community actually test whether this approach holds up

2026-08-31 ~ 2026-09-01 · 5 related posts

• Intent Rebuilt and Open Sourced for Multi-Agent Development at Scale — LukeW · 2026-08-31
• [source] LukeW's Intent Rebuilt and Open Sourced for Coordination of Hundreds of Agents — LukeW · 2026-08-31
• Intent Backend Re-architected for Scale, Multi-platform and Multi-device — LukeW · 2026-08-31
• [source] Intent Goes Fully Open Source: Agent Coordination at the Level of Intent — LukeW · 2026-08-31
• [source] Intent open-sourced: Large-scale agent coordination keeping agents on track — LukeW · 2026-09-01