Juggler
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“A couple hours later, I'm playing with it. This is awesome, really great work.”
“I recommend it if you're in search of something powerful with a web interface that works well on mobile devices”
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Caveats and dissent
“I found it super stressful to use. It emits so much output and activity, in various nested forms.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
You can use your claude subscription just fine in open harnesses! I make one (https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler) and it'll auto-detect and use your claude CLI. I use that claude plan for 90% of my work, plus a bit of GPT, I just prefer to do it inside a nicer, less locked-in environment than claude. There's really no moat around proprietary closed harnesses, it's trivial to jump between them, but people need to b
“Juggler usually gets a warm response from HN people because it's a bit more hands-on than most of them.”
“Like Pi, it's plugins all the way down, provider-agnostic, minimal system prompts, threaded sub-agents”
Threads where it came up
- Pi 1.0 5 mentions
- Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age 2 mentions
- The Agent SDK 1 mention
- ThinkRail from JetBrains 1 mention
- How Many Objects Can Be Juggled? (1997) 1 mention
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All comments 7
“I found it super stressful to use. It emits so much output and activity, in various nested forms.”
“A couple hours later, I'm playing with it. This is awesome, really great work.”
“I recommend it if you're in search of something powerful with a web interface that works well on mobile devices”
“Been a happy Juggler since I first saw it on here.”
“This isn't to say Juggler is bad. Rather, it's got a long way to go for the GUI to be something that has the fluency of something like vim.”
“This project looks great, well done”
“i will give it a try.”