Nathan Brake, an ML engineer at Mozilla.ai, released agent-of-empires (aoe), a CLI tool for managing local AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode. Written in Rust and built on tmux, aoe provides a dashboard to monitor session states—whether an agent is running, idle, or awaiting input. The tool addresses a common frustration when working with slower local LLMs: losing track of multiple terminal sessions while waiting for tasks to complete.

Brake created aoe to streamline multitasking across numerous AI-assisted coding sessions, eliminating the need to manually toggle between terminal windows. Users can group sessions, assign names, and configure profiles for different projects. Installation is available via curl or Homebrew, with sessions persisting through tmux for reliability.

While local models lag behind hosted ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, tools like aoe help developers give open-weight models a fair shot by reducing workflow friction. Brake plans to add Docker sandboxing and git worktree support.