Show HN: Bb, an agentic IDE that can control itself

Category: devtools

Tags: agentic-ide, developer-tools, agent-orchestration

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

bb is an agentic IDE that allows users to orchestrate multiple coding agents together, with a web app, CLI, and HTTP API as first-class interfaces. It features a threaded workflow system with live tracking, handoff capabilities, and a distributed runtime with server, host daemon, and client components. The project is interesting for its ambitious multi-surface approach and agent coordination model, though still in active development.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/ymichael/bb · TypeScript · MIT · 43 stars

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