Show HN: Buddylist – Coding agents in an MSN-style messenger

Category: devtools

Tags: multi-agent, coding-assistant, desktop-app, llm-orchestration, chat-ui

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 4, Utility: 4)

Buddylist is a desktop application that wraps multiple coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Hermes) in an MSN-style messenger interface. It introduces a novel 'effort level' negotiation where agents dynamically decide how much reasoning effort to allocate before responding, but the project appears early-stage with minimal documentation and limited public validation.

Target audience: AI developers and engineers experimenting with multi-agent coding workflows

Repository: https://buddylist.dev/

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