Mission control for Claude Code and Codex agent swarms

What it does

Kibitz is a VS Code extension and CLI that watches active Claude Code and Codex terminal sessions, generating a live commentary feed of what each agent is up to. From a single composer panel, you can fire prompts at any existing session or spin up a new one on your current provider without switching windows. It is essentially a traffic controller for terminal-based AI agents.

The interesting bit

Instead of treating each agent session as a black box, Kibitz parses their activity and exposes explicit dispatch status events—queued, started, sent, failed—so you know whether your prompt actually landed. The slash-command targeting (/1, /2, /focus, etc.) turns the composer into a crude but effective switchboard for agent swarms.

Key highlights

• Live commentary feed for multiple concurrent Claude/Codex sessions
• Cross-session prompt dispatch to existing or new sessions
• Explicit status tracking on every send (no silent failures)
• VS Code panel and terminal CLI with slash controls
• Windows and macOS fully supported; Linux is best effort

Caveats

• Linux support is explicitly “best effort”
• Session targeting only works for recently active sessions in the watcher window
• Broadcasting one prompt to multiple sessions simultaneously is not implemented

Verdict

Grab this if you regularly run multiple Claude Code or Codex agents and want a single pane of glass to monitor and steer them. Skip it if you only ever run one agent at a time or do all your work on Linux.