I gave my AI coding agents an office, and now my team can watch them work

Описание и применение

Deskmates позволяет визуализировать работу AI‑кодеров в реальном времени, показывая их статусы и взаимодействия в пиксельном офисе, улучшая прозрачность и командную работу.

Задача

Team members could not see what AI coding agents were doing in real time, making it hard to understand agent states and permissions.

Результат

Deskmates provides a real‑time, privacy‑preserving visual representation of AI coding agents, improving team awareness and collaboration.

Рабочий процесс

• Install deskmates globally via npm
• Run deskmates serve to launch the office UI
• Connect agents using deskmates connect or by default for Codex/Copilot/Cursor/Gemini
• Agents emit events via hooks, session files, or HTTP ingest API
• Deskmates reducer processes events to determine agent state
• WebSocket streams state to the canvas UI
• Agents appear as characters walking, typing, waiting, or leaving
• Optional: serve over LAN with token, use kiosk mode for TV display
• Optional: set up shared office with --shared and --relay for multi‑PC visibility

Доказательства

I spend most of my day with three or four AI coding agents running at once: Claude Code in two profiles, Codex in another terminal, sometimes a subagent or two.

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deskmates is a pixel‑art office where every agent session on your machine is a character at a desk.

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It is open source (MIT), and it installs with one command: npm install -g deskmates deskmates serve # http://127.0.0.1:47821 deskmates demo # simulated agents, if you want to see it before connecting anything

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Privacy was the first rule, not the last. Events carry only a tool name and a detail of at most 120 characters: a file name or the first line of a command.

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Next to my keyboard was not where I wanted it. I wanted it on a tablet, and then on the screen in the office.

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