Steve Yegge asks for agentic IDEs; ntm + tmux skills orchestrate 10-20 agent swarms
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-12
Steve Yegge asked what people use as an "agentic IDE" to multiplex 10-20+ agents (Superlogical? Herdr? github/bb?), admitting his Emacs isn't a good recommendation.
Doodlestein answered with an open-source stack:
- ntm (namedtmuxmanager): orchestrates tmux agent swarms — spawning panes, triaging work, locks/mail, safety and pipelines;
- /ntm and /vibing-with-ntm Claude Code skills: the former handles orchestration ticks, the latter tends the swarm — unsticking panes, rate limits, review mode, convergence and Goodhart/reward-hacking defenses;
- Companion skills include a Gemini-powered code review swarm; the catalog has tens of thousands of downloads.
The core idea: skip a fancy IDE — just tell the controller agent what to do and it manages the panes.
Related event: Steve Yegge Asks: Which IDE for Multiplexing 10-20 Coding Agents?(6 posts)→
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