Agent tools
Orca, Cursor and the like
- Run several agents at once
- Keep them out of each other's way
- Review the code they wrote
For people who build with AI agents
Tomrade is a board your agents update themselves, and a terminal that shows every one of them. Say what you want; they do it, and only come to you when it's your call.
Preview Version 0.28.0, released November 6, 2026
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Tomrade is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Download it on your computer.
DownloadWhat it is
Three steps, from one sentence to merged pull requests.
Say what you want. The assistant splits it into tickets sized for one pull request each, in order. Don't like it? One click takes the whole run back.
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor run where they always did. They claim a ticket, branch and open the pull request, and the board follows git on its own.
An auto run works down the dependency graph, one ticket after another, and merges only once the checks pass. Wake up to the result.
Why use it
Without Tomrade
With Tomrade
✕A dozen agents open, and you ask each one how it's going.
✓Agents claim their tickets and report back. They only come to you when it's your call.
✕An agent asked a question in a terminal. You saw it much later.
✓The pane and the status bar say at once which one is waiting for you.
✕Every session starts from zero.
✓Ideas, tickets and decisions stay in the backlog; the next run picks up from there.
✕Something changed, and nobody knows who changed it.
✓Every write is attributed and grouped by run. One click takes a whole run back.
✕Notes in one app, to-dos in another, feedback in a third.
✓Files, notes, the inbox and the tickets live in one place, and the agents can read them too.
How it differs
It isn't another editor, and it doesn't run the model that writes your code. Your agent still does that, wherever you like to run it.
Orca, Cursor and the like
Keeps hold of the work
Different jobs, so use them together: in an Orca worktree or a Cursor chat, the agent claims its ticket from Tomrade over MCP. Read the full comparison →
| What you want | Orca | Linear | Copilot cloud agent | Vibe Kanban | Tomrade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A backlog that lasts: tickets, and what waits on what | a task is a worktree, linked to a GitHub, Linear or Jira item | ✓ | starts from a GitHub issue | ✓ | ✓ |
| The agents in your own terminal | ✓ | — | runs in the cloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| A ticket's status follows its pull request | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| An agent's writes to tickets, notes and settings: a whole run, one click back | — | — | — | code only: edit a message to replay | ✓ |
| Auto run down the dependency graph, merged once checks pass | scheduled prompts; GitHub auto-merge on a pull request | — | — | merge by hand | ✓ |
| Free and open source | ✓ | free up to 250 issues | needs a paid plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| No account; a project is a folder on your disk | runs on your desktop | cloud; data kept in the US or EU | cloud; needs a paid plan | sign in with GitHub or Google first | ✓ |
A backlog of its own, the agents on your machine, a whole run of ticket writes taken back, and an overnight run down the dependency graph: only Tomrade has all four.
A tick or a few words comes from each product's own site and docs, and for Orca and Vibe Kanban from their public source repositories too; — means none of those mention it, not that it cannot. Vibe Kanban's site says the project is sunsetting and continues as community-maintained open source. Checked on 2026-11-14, from: orca.dev · linear.app/agents · linear.app/docs/github · linear.app/pricing · docs.github.com (Copilot cloud agent) · vibekanban.com · orca.dev/docs · linear.app/docs/security · docs.github.com (starting a Copilot session) · github.com/stablyai/orca @ea92ef7e · github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban @5f06193
Branch, pull request, merge: the ticket moves by itself. Nobody drags a card.
The tickets, notes and settings an agent wrote through Tomrade are grouped by run, and can all be taken back.
Pick the tickets, set the limits, and an auto run works through them, merging only what passes its checks.
A project is a folder on your disk. It works without an account.
Films
Every frame is rendered from code, the music computed too. Start with a launch film, then pick the telling you like.
A dark stage, large type, one piece at a time
A camera over all six features
The manual, with a live preview
Paper, a serif, one red
Where the hand goes, the feature follows
A story typed into a terminal
Ink, paper and one red
Tickets are pads that sound
Every agent a line
A quiet short poem
One key, one feature
Your computer at home gets to work
A number to a bar
One window, all of them
Preview Version 0.28.0, released November 6, 2026
Download for macOS (Apple silicon)On Windows? The installer isn't signed yet. Read this before installing
Tomrade is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Download it on your computer.
DownloadmacOS, Windows and Linux. Free, open source, no account.