Overstory orchestrates coding agents with pluggable runtimes
Overstory is an open-source control plane for AI coding agents that turns one coding session into a coordinated multi-agent workflow. It runs workers in git worktrees via tmux, routes coordination through a SQLite-backed mail system, and can swap between runtimes like Claude Code, Pi, Gemini CLI, Codex, and more.
Overstory is less a coding agent and more the glue layer around coding agents, which is exactly the kind of tooling that becomes valuable once single-agent workflows stop scaling.
- –It isolates workers in git worktrees and uses tmux for coordination, which makes parallel execution feel deliberate instead of improvised.
- –The `AgentRuntime` abstraction is the main unlock: you can swap in different CLI agents without rewriting the orchestration layer.
- –The project is honest about the tradeoffs, and that matters; multi-agent setups can amplify cost, merge conflicts, and debugging complexity fast.
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