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Why it mattersTeams that run more than one coding agent can keep them in one window. Trying a new agent on a job the current one cannot finish is now one click, not a new terminal.
Developers who run more than one coding agent used to open a terminal for each. The maker aicodeking released PandaCode on 18 October. The Rust desktop app has reached 527 stars. It brings fourteen coding agents into one window. Next to them sit a project tree, Git, a terminal and a browser.
What is in the box
The README names fourteen agents that PandaCode talks to. Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot CLI are on the list. So are OpenCode, Cline and Grok Build. Chinese agents are also there, such as Kimi Code, GLM Coding Plan and DeepSeek. Each one can run on its own. Several can run at once on different tasks. The README says you pick the agent for each task. A job the current agent cannot finish moves to a different agent in the same window.
How teams of agents work
The app has a task board with four columns: Pending, In Progress, Review and Completed. A task can go to a single agent. It can also go to an agent team. In a team, an architect agent splits the work. Worker agents then run the parts in parallel. The README allows mixed agents in the same team. So an architect on one model can direct workers on another. Approvals, diff viewers and Git worktrees sit next to the board. A worker's result can be merged with one click.
What else sits in the window
The README lists a terminal, a browser, iOS and Android simulators, local VMs and cloud sandbox support. GitHub issues and pull requests are managed inside the app. Bots pipe the task board into Telegram, Slack, Discord and WhatsApp. All data is kept in a local SQLite file. The license is called the PandaCode License. It asks commercial forks to say they are forks of PandaCode. They must link back to the original repository.
Why this is getting picked up
Working with several coding agents means working around their quirks. The usual price is screen space. One terminal per agent, one Git worktree per task, and a lot of switching between windows. PandaCode puts the agents, the worktrees and the simulators in one place. A developer who already pays for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot can run both on the same backlog. The diff viewer then shows which answer to keep. The repository is new and the license is non-standard. A team should read it before using the app at work. 527 stars and 96 forks landed in five days. That is a Rust project with no company behind it. The audience was waiting for something like this.
Source
Primary source: aicodeking/pandacode on GitHub.
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