👔 Middleman

A local-first multi-agent orchestration platform. One manager, many workers, zero tab-juggling.

If you're using agentic coding tools, you've probably hit this wall: you start with one agent, then two, then five. You're branching, worktree-ing, reviewing, merging, context-switching. The agents are cranking out code. But your entire day is spent managing them, sequencing work, checking output, nudging things along.

You're not an IC anymore. You've become a project manager. You need a middle manager.

Middleman gives you one. You talk to a single persistent manager agent per project. You describe what needs to be done, whether it's a feature, a batch of bug fixes, or a refactor, and the manager dispatches workers, parallelizes where it makes sense, and surfaces only the things that need your attention.

Quick Start

npx middleman-app

That's it. Open http://localhost:47187, go to Settings, sign in with your OpenAI or Anthropic key, create a new manager, and start talking.

Development

git clone https://github.com/SawyerHood/middleman.git
cd middleman
pnpm i
pnpm dev
# http://127.0.0.1:47187

Key Features

• Persistent managers. Onboard once, work for days. Managers remember your preferences, workflow, and project context across sessions via compacting memory.
• Worker dispatch. The manager spawns workers (Codex, Pi/Opus, etc.) and routes messages between them. You describe work at a high level; it handles the breakdown.