Show HN: Agentic Orchestrator, a TUI for long-running coding agents
Agentic Orchestrator is a terminal tool that runs coding agents through a deterministic engineering workflow (requirements, design, planning, implementation, review). It allows human oversight in early phases and autonomous execution later, with merge conflict and review comment utilities. The open-source tool supports OpenCode, Codex, or Claude Code on macOS, Linux, and WSL.
Background
- A **TUI (Terminal User Interface)** is a text-based interface that runs inside a terminal window, as opposed to a graphical desktop app. It's common among developers who work in command-line environments.<br>- "AFK" means "away from keyboard" — the tool is designed to run autonomously while the developer steps away.<br>- The project is by **DoorDash's open-source team**. DoorDash is a major US food-delivery company, and its engineering blog / OSS releases often draw industry attention.<br>- The tool orchestrates **coding agents** — AI programs (like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) that can write code autonomously. Different models are used for different stages (planning vs. coding vs. reviewing), a pattern called "agentic orchestration."<br>- Key concept: "deterministic orchestration on top of non-deterministic agents" means the framework (written in Go) enforces a rigid workflow with human checkpoints, while the AI agents themselves can produce varied/unpredictable outputs.<br>- `gh` is GitHub's official command-line tool, needed here to interact with pull requests and repositories.