Alternatives to Grove: One terminal for you and your AI agent (2026)

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AgentGrid▲77

Your AI agents team, terminals, notes: one infinite canvas

Jul 2026

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A comprehensive, filterable list of AI agent jails▲9

I built this from another Show HN thread where people were mentioning alternative AI agent sandboxes and jails

Jul 2026 · pleasedonotescape.com

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TermHub – Open-source terminal control gateway built for AI Agents▲5

Apr 2026 · github.com

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Agent Office – Slack for (OpenClaw Like) AI Agents▲5

Mar 2026 · github.com

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Shikigami, run AI coding agents in parallel, each in a Git worktree▲7

Hello all, I'm a software developer. Over the last few months more and more of my work has turned into using coding agents instead of typing the whole code myself. Usually a few claude sessions at once, sometimes codex, one per feature or per revealed bug. I ran them in a split terminal for a few weeks, and quickly spotted two main problems. The first is that I couldn't easily tell which agent was stuck waiting on me and which was still working, so I'd cycle through sessions and checking on them. The second one: agents sharing a single branch step on each other. Two of them could be editing…

Jul 2026 · shikigami.dev

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Agent Chat Bridge – give AI IDE agents an async callback▲5

May 2026 · github.com

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MagiCrew

Give everyone their own AI workforce in one platform Discussion | Link

18d ago · producthunt.com

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SHOUD▲1

Give your computer a job.

3d ago · shoud.online

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Lineation – One security control plane for all agents▲6

TLDR: Distributed policy enforcement and a "black box" for AI agents

Jul 2026 · lineation.ai

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I built a firewall for agents because prompt engineering isn't security▲7

Hi HN, I’m the creator of Cordum. I’ve been working in DevOps and infrastructure for years (currently in the fintech/security space), and as I started playing with AI agents, I noticed a scary pattern. Most "safety" mechanisms rely on system prompts ("Please don't do X") or flimsy Python logic inside the agent itself. If we treat agents as autonomous employees, giving them root access and hoping they listen to instructions felt insane to me. I wanted a way to enforce hard constraints that the LLM cannot override, no matter how "jailbroken" it gets. So I built Cordum. It’s an open-source…

Jan 2026 · github.com

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Promptctl – Git for your AI prompts▲5

Jun 2026 · github.com

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Codingagents.md – The open directory for AI coding agents▲5

Feb 2026 · codingagents.md

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Wmux – a native Windows terminal multiplexer for AI agents▲5

Jun 2026 · github.com

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Interactive Sessions