Agent Buddy, a desk companion for AI coding agents, stars at GitHub Universe keynote
DanWahlin · x · 2026-10-30
Dan Wahlin's Agent Buddy was featured in the GitHub Universe keynote. It's a small desk device (plus a desktop-app version) that mirrors the state of your background AI coding agents at a glance: working, needs attention, complete, sleeping.
Highlights:
- Supports up to six agents with badge indicators showing which one needs you
- Built-in character packs: Copilot, Claude, Grok, OpenClaw
- Displays GitHub Copilot AI credits or agent token usage
- Naps after two idle minutes, reacts to taps
It targets the 'background blindness' problem of running multiple agents in terminals you're not watching.
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