Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator
hey hn, i built beehive for myself mostly. it has gotten to the point where my work consists in supervising oc or cc labor at tasks for multiple issues in parallel. my set up used to be zellij with a couple tabs, each tab working in a separate dir and it was a pain to manage all that. i know i could use git worktrees but they're kind of complicated, if you don't know how to use them it is easy to mess up, and i just prefer letting agents run in separate dirs with their own .git and not risk it. while i like zellij and use it inside beehive, i dont like the tabs and i forget where i am half…
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Beehive is a multi-workspace orchestrator designed to manage multiple isolated working directories across different Git repositories. Built for developers who supervise AI agents working on parallel tasks, it organizes work into "hives" (repositories) and "combs" (independent working directories within each hive). Each comb operates in complete isolation with its own Git history, eliminating the complexity of Git worktrees. The tool integrates Zellij for terminal management while providing clearer workspace navigation than tab-based interfaces.
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hey hn, i built beehive for myself mostly. it has gotten to the point where my work consists in supervising oc or cc labor at tasks for multiple issues in parallel. my set up used to be zellij with a couple tabs, each tab working in a separate dir and it was a pain to manage all that. i know i could use git worktrees but they're kind of complicated, if you don't know how to use them it is easy to mess up, and i just prefer letting agents run in separate dirs with their own .git and not risk it. while i like zellij and use it inside beehive, i dont like the tabs and i forget where i am half the time. beehive is a way for me to abstract that away. the heuristic is simple - hives are repos, so you basically have a bunch of hives which correspond to repos you work out of. each hive can have many combs. a comb is a dir with the copy of the repo you're working on. fully isolated, standalone, no shared .git. so for work or for personal stuff, i usually set up the hive, and then have a bunch of combs that i jump between supervising the agents do their thing. if you have a big repo it takes a minute to clone, and you also need gh and git because i like the niceties of like checking if the repo is there at all and stuff like that. the app is open source, mit license. i went with tauri because i hate electron. also i have friends and coworkers who updated to macos 26 and i dont know if the whole mem leak thing for electron apps has been fixed. the app is like 9 megs which is nice too. most of it is written with cc, but i guided the aesthetics and the approach. works on mac and there is a dmg signed and notarized (i reactivated my apple dev credentials). sharing this to get a vibe check on the idea, also maybe this is useful for you. there are many arguments, reasonable ones, you can make for worktrees vs dirs. i just know that trees are too big brain for me, and i like simple things. if you like it, pls lmk and also if you want to help (like add linux support, or like add themes, other cool things) please make a pr / open an issue.
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