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Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents (github.com)

48 points by ZeidJ ↗ HN
We posted here on Monday and got some great feedback. We’ve implemented a few of the most requested updates:

- iMessage channel support (agents can text people and you can text agents) Other channels are simple to extend. - A built-in browser (agents can navigate and interact with websites) - Scheduling (run tasks on a timer / cron/ in the future) - Built in tunneling so that the agents can share local stuff with you over the internet - More robust MCP and Skills support so anyone can extend it - Auto approval for agent requests

If you didn’t see the original:

Outworked is a desktop app where Claude Code agents work as a small “team.” You give it a goal, and an orchestrator breaks it into tasks and assigns them across agents.

Agents can run in parallel, talk to each other, write code, and now also browse the web and send messages.

It runs locally and plugs into your existing Claude Code setup.

Would love to hear what we should build next. Thanks again!

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billconan
does it use the claude code api or the claude code cli? You know, the claude code api is more expensive.

I also hope it can have a webapp version, rather than electron. because most of our work are on a remote server.

jameschaearley
Love the pixel office. Such a fun way to make multi-agent work less abstract. Being able to actually watch agents walk to their desks and pick up tasks makes it way easier to follow what's happening than staring at terminal logs. Curious if the orchestrator handles cases where two agents need to edit the same file.
hamuraijack
"animal crossing-style" is a bit of a stretch
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james-clef
Maybe a bit of an odd one, but can you decorate the office? I'm wondering like have you abstracted the decor elements into something that is straightforward to extend? How easily could I give my office a new espresso machine or something?
Contrails
Haha this is really cool! I imagine it would be a nice tool to teach kids about working with agents.
Ryand1234
this seems interesting. Will give it a spin this weekend.
Finnoid
Love this! AI agents can be so abstract to many people and this project really makes it feel much more approachable. Makes me think of Game Dev Story! Would be awesome to see little thinking bubbles over them to show what they are doing. Ultimately I see promise in making it easier to visually see what is happening in the system.
robonot
The parallel agent coordination is what makes this interesting. Most agent wrappers are just single-agent loops with extra steps.
Skidaddle
I like the visualization, but in terms of orchestration, how does it compare to CC’s built in agent swarms?
braden-lk
Sorry, but there's not even a single hint of a visual relationship to Animal Crossing here. I believe this title is inaccurate.
sjdrc
Are you planning a Linux release?
snthpy
> "Post to LinkedIn 13 times a day"

Love this use case! #excited #growth #eatmyslop