Coding-agent managers treat agents as opaque terminal processes with no shared UI context
Developers using multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) find existing agent managers act like simple terminal wrappers without letting agents spawn sub-tasks, view files, or customize the UI. An open-source ADE (bb) was built to give agents richer, scriptable, cross-provider integration.
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