Show HN: Parley – coding-agent sessions that collaborate over IRC

Category: devtools

Tags: multi-agent, coding-agents, irc, orchestration, claude-code, codex, opencode, go

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Parley connects multiple coding-agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) through a local IRC channel so they can coordinate peer-to-peer while the human observes and arbitrates. It provides novel abstractions like lines, tables, and builds with authority stamping and loop breakers, using only the Go standard library. The project addresses a real gap in multi-agent collaboration but remains early-stage with limited harness support and single-platform validation.

Target audience: developers using multiple coding-agent sessions, AI engineers, devops experimenting with agent orchestration

Repository: https://github.com/colinsurprenant/parley · Go · Apache-2.0 · 4 stars

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