Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

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• OK, I like this in concept a LOT. I especially like that it's efficient and headless with an attachable GUI.

  But I don't like how opinionated it is: "Therefore Prospero prime design principle: Never wait forever. Every operation has a deadline. This decision influences everything."

  I respect that opinion, but I don't share it, and therefore an entire coding harness developed around that opinion is not helpful for me.

  by x3haloed
• If you're looking for an agent implementation that is light on resources, but prefer to work in a terminal, consider also hax (https://usehax.dev/). Less than 2 MB fully static Linux binary, few MBs of RAM use in runtime. Works great with local models also (auto-detects config from running llama-server), besides the usual cloud providers.
  by OleksandrC
• I'm tired of tech people forgetting to see if something else is using a name: http://www.prospero.org/

  Way to cause confusion.

  This is like starting a new country and calling it France.

  by bigbuppo
• There are so many cool harnesses I could use if I didn't have an outrageously subsidized Claude subscription
  by bensyverson
• Many make their own harness today anyway...

  I did mine as well and that takes 4% the resources of opencode and in a similar tui style.

  I think it's great and everyone should make their own.

  by keyle
• Great to see what you're doing there, but speaking as a 30-year hardcore C++ veteran (to the extent of creating my own C++ GUI framework: https://juce.com)... When I was writing a code agent (https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler), there's no way I'd have used C++ for an agent GUI!

  Agent UIs are all markdown, HTML, big scrolling lists, text flow, unicode chars, and all the other stuff that C++ frameworks are terrible at, but which is a doddle in HTML/CSS/JS.. You are a brave man!

  by julesrms
• Nitpicks about CLI coding agents:

  Many times, while they are doing something, I’ll be typing a prompt, and then all of a sudden I get a question with Y/N options, and by accident, I’ll type Y/N as part of a word thus “answering the question”, many times either steering in the wrong direction or stopping the agent

  Neither Claude code nor Codex solve this. The only way I’ve found to prevent it is to type somewhere else and then paste, but it’s super annoying

  Edit: ^^ the above is especially annoying now that Codex popups the prompts/questions within other agents' sessions

  Also, when I want two agents in different sessions to talk to each other, it’s kinda janky, I have to talk to both and act as a messenger for a couple of turns before they properly coordinate. I wish I could just sort of click somewhere, and link unlink two or more sessions

  Does Próspero solve the things above?

  Any pans for “swarm”/group control of agents?

  by nico
• Nice to see a gui coding agent. I use tui agents all the time but I am building a gui one. I use Claude Code, Codex, opencode and a couple other but I do not like the DX/UX.

  I often want click a part of the wall of text (from agent) and search for related text, open them up on the side or so. I want to open a linked file. I want to answer multiple questions in an async manner, even come back and continue answering the next day.

  There are many prompt level features I want too - orchestrate with subagents, but only the tasks I select - how do I select when there is no checkbox. Or maybe delegate a subagent to dig into (read only) one portion of the chat response. Maybe codify (write) only one task in a list of tasks. So many many other small things.

  As a full-time user of coding agents, the TUI barely works for me. I think splitting text, searching in text, merging text are more important in agent driven development than ever before. It is all text, all the way. This is what I am building myself, with my own gui framework.

  by brainless