I juggle a dozen projects across tmux sessions, git repos, and Obsidian tasks. Cockpit is a single TUI that shows me what's hot right now without leaving the terminal.
Gary Tan's gstack gives Claude Code structured planning skills. Orch gives it parallel execution. I forked gstack to bridge the two, so a reviewed plan becomes running agents in one step.
Running engineering at a small agency means shipping 30+ client projects with a tiny team. AI didn't just speed things up. It changed which decisions matter.
How I built a thin coordination layer that lets multiple Claude Code instances work as a team, and the design decisions that made it work.
After months of running coordinated AI agents on real projects, here are the patterns that hold up and the ones that fall apart.