AgentCraft turns coding agent orchestration into a real-time strategy game
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-09-27
AI Engineer interviews Ido Salomon, creator of AgentCraft and MCP-UI, on why capable agents haven't given everyone an agent army: the bottleneck is human steering and review. AgentCraft is an RTS-style orchestrator where agents are units on a map, the file system becomes terrain, heat maps show activity, and spacebar jumps you to what needs attention.
Key ideas covered:
- Visibility: map-based view, quests, and jump-to-attention controls
- Autonomy: orchestrators, loops, and a review kit with visual evidence
- Collaboration: shared rooms where humans and agents work side by side; plugins, skills, terminal and git appear as buildings
- Lowering the floor: an early mobile-game-style simple mode aimed at the 90% who aren't power users
14 minutes with full timestamps; MCP-UI is at mcp-ui.dev.
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