Cubicle puts blocked coding agents in a queue at your desk

Caglar Utku Guler's free open-source tool renders Paperclip, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI sessions as characters, with blocked agents waiting at your desk.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

Why it matters

Multi-agent coding can leave developers hunting for the agent that needs their attention. Cubicle tests whether a glanceable status layer can cut that waiting time without becoming another orchestrator.

Four small robots hold tablets beside an office chair and desk; one robot has an OpenAI logo on its chest.

Caglar Utku Guler built Cubicle because the bottleneck in his multi-agent setup had become embarrassingly human: he could not tell which agent needed him. In his write-up of the project, Guler says he was running several Claude Code sessions alongside a small company of Paperclip agents working on an online store. Reading logs did not answer the question he needed answered at a glance.…

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