Agent Standup transforms your Claude Code session into a live team stand-up call, showing who is waiting on whom and who is blocked at zero token cost. The lead agent gives orders, sub-agents join, share their screens, and report back. It's a bit silly, but oddly useful.
The tool works wherever you run Claude Code and is free and open source. A fictional team in the built-in demo illustrates how it functions in practice. Setup requires just one small local server with several ways to connect: VS Code offers a panel and sidebar, or you can search Agent Standup directly. Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCodium use the same extension installed from a file, followed by installation from VSIX.
No editor is needed either—you can use any terminal with a click to copy, or launch the desktop app with its own window and menu bar indicator, though it is not signed by Apple. Claude Code status lines and tmux provide one-line indicators, with more details in the README. JetBrains support is not yet a native plugin but requires Claude Code to have been used on the machine at least once.
Features include a live call with one status per agent, screen sharing, a context gauge, token tracking, replay, recap, tree views, video, voices, custom characters, and support for 8 languages. Is it serious? Mostly for fun. No.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing