Cross-provider agentic workstation addressing AI coding tool complaints
A builder of a cross-provider agentic workstation ran an Ask-HN-style thread collecting concrete complaints about Cursor, VSCode, Claude Code and Codex: missing worktree support, no in-editor PR approval status, no remote sandboxes. The complaint list is a validated roadmap for an integrated agent workspace that minimizes human attention, not another IDE fork.
The problem
Developers juggling multiple AI coding tools lose time to workflow gaps: switching to GitHub to check PR approvals, no worktree isolation, no remote sandbox execution, attention required for trivial handoffs. Each tool solves part of the loop; none integrates the full agent workflow across providers.
What could be built
An agentic workstation (not an IDE) that unifies cross-provider agents with worktree management, in-app PR status, remote sandboxes, and attention-only-when-needed orchestration. The public complaint thread doubles as feature validation and early adopter pool.
Who it's for
Who is talking（1）
Related topics
Summaries are AI-generated. The original words are in the threads above.