bb

The Agentic IDE that builds itself

[André König @ItsAndreKoenig]

I've been using @get_bb_app for a couple of months now, and it's one of the most malleable platforms out there. The way you can integrate your own workflows blows everything else out of the water.

For example, I just built my own GitHub Actions plugin. It makes it easy to spin up self-hosted runners on machines I operate, register them with GitHub, and run jobs on them directly.

[bb @get_bb_app]

To former conductor users: give bb a shot!

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

@sawyerhood thank you 😍

bb is awesome btw

[emre @bu7emba]

Switched from @herdrdev to @get_bb_app a week ago after 1.5 years developing solely in the terminal.

So far, it's been smooth. Loving the embedded generative UI and how much you can customize.

The terminal was indeed a stopgap.

[Borja MPM @BorjaMpm]

Something crazy about @get_bb_app is that agents can message each other. I have one watching every deploy of my app, and it that reached out to my working agent for details on why railway deploys disappeared

[Connor Adams @ConnorAds]

Okay so I've moved over from terminal to @get_bb_app and I'm liking it, thanks @sawye - was able to port my fave ol' tmux customisations.

[bb @get_bb_app]

@zqkrq why are we not b-tier for bb

[Ryan Brown @NotRyanB]

for the last ~2 months i’ve been using an orchestrator within @get_bb_app as a single entrypoint to manage my agents

with the launch of cursor projects and @nicbstme’s viral post about AI feeds, figured it was time to have opus vibe up a hype video for my workflow

at this point there are a lot of ways to have one agent orchestrate a bunch of other agents to do work, but there are a few things an ideal experience needs to solve for:

observability: you should easily be able to talk directly to any of the spawned agents; especially for me as an fde there’s still a decent amount of in-the-loop work where going through the manager would be an unnecessary layer of translation

attention: there’s only so much i can focus on at once. the split in bb feed makes it easy: agents still working are in a separate section, so the ones that actually need responses are clearly emphasized. if you have too many that need you, you can ��pause” some to set them aside (bottom section) for later

interaction: support various levels of interaction with the agents - let the manager handle it, talk to the manager directly and have it talk to the agents, reply to the agent directly without leaving the feed (either based on the summary line or expanding the card to see the full most recent message), or fully click into the agent session

there might be other things out there that have all three of these but i’m a tinkerer at heart and constantly customizing so bb’s plugin system makes this seamless, shoutout @sawyerhood for building a great product

[michael s galpert @msg]

On today’s episode of @alreadyhereshow I switched things up and sat down IRL with longtime friend @bentossell while he was visiting SF.

We talked about how he’s playing with AI these days.

Ben is a self proclaimed “non-technical” person intimidated by the terminal but has shipped code to production at @FactoryAI.

We get into why he keeps his agent’s context in a folder, why he doesn’t use Claude Code, and why AI makes him want to spend even more time on his computer.

shout out to @thsottiaux for the reset because i had astra high fast edit the video. lmk what you think.

Other things you will learn in this episode:
02:20 Why building silly things helps you learn how to work with AI

04:23 How Ben built a mascot animator just to make his personal site more fun

06:04 How he built a visual dictionary to understand what coding agents are talking about

08:01 Which tasks he gives Pi, Factory, and Codex—and why he loves @get_bb_app

11:41 Why he agrees with @alexatallah that faster models can feel smarter—and prefers steering agents as they work

15:17 How a shared glossary can help you and your agent stop talking past each other

24:22 Why calling AI adoption a “skill issue” lets the AI labs off the hook

31:13 How Ben keeps his personal context portable across agents and models

31:29 Why he cut back on what his agent remembers about him

42:02 Why you should ask AI questions relentlessly

45:17 Why he wants more time on his computer with his agent

[bb @get_bb_app]

bb 0.46.1 is out!

- MCP server: control bb from Claude Code, Grok Bot, Dots & more
- 1-click global bb CLI install for other apps
- Search Settings
- Answer child threads' questions inline
- Rewritten, more stable ACP adapter (opt-in)

Feedback welcome! https://t.co/5Ebua8eOhN

[bb @get_bb_app]

bb 0.46.0 is out!

• Customizable navigation rail
• Reusable prompts with Ctrl+R
• Per-thread notifications
• Storage cleanup (experimental, opt-in)

Plus better file editing and more reliable bb connect.

https://t.co/5Ebua8eOhN

[bb @get_bb_app]

Get it here: https://t.co/7BgagNrr3Y

[bb @get_bb_app]

Plugin Alert: Beacon. Keep tabs on the resources your machine is using right from the sidebar.

[bb @get_bb_app]

bb 0.45.0 is out!

Titles, commit messages, and voice transcription via your bb account, without a Codex login. Plus Codex Ultrafast support, faster chats, custom navigation, and Android + Windows in alpha.

https://t.co/5Ebua8eOhN

[bb @get_bb_app]

Now an experimental plugin on https://t.co/YvOo7UweTY

[bb @get_bb_app]

Running too many agents? Run your agents on Modal cloud sandboxes so you never run out of compute.

[bb @get_bb_app]

> we have bb at home
> the bb we have at home:

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

You can now mod Claude Code:

- Change how it behaves
- Customize the UI
- Swap in your own features

Write one with a few lines of TypeScript, or have Claude build it for you. Mods ship inside plugins, so you install them with /plugin in the CLI or desktop app.

A few examples:

[bb @get_bb_app]

try today at https://t.co/a9HUennzEu

[bb @get_bb_app]

New in bb: spawn headless browsers and get a real time preview of what the agent is doing.

[bb @get_bb_app]

Add bb to your watch

[Levan Kvirkvelia @levan]

Connected to my @get_bb_app
Holly fuck I love it

[bb @get_bb_app]

use skills directly from https://t.co/c5CAoIU28g!

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

Recently started trying to daily drive bb by @sawyerhood - nice surprise that the in app skills installer imports from skills.⁠sh !