Agent Manager

Agent Manager is an open-source Go-based CLI utility and orchestration harness created by Kevin Elliott. It is designed to catalog, discover, and manage terminal-based AI coding agents, skills, and agent-adjacent developer utilities in one place. Operating directly from the terminal, Agent Manager maintains an extensive embedded catalog of over 100 CLI coding agents, routing utilities (such as Claude Code Router), skill packages, and token usage analyzers. Developers use it to inspect, track, and maintain their terminal AI toolchain without manually searching package registries or GitHub repositories. Rather than serving as an LLM execution harness or standalone coding agent itself, Agent Manager functions as a dedicated ecosystem manager and discovery layer. It bridges different agent ecosystems across npm, Homebrew, and Go, standardizing how coding agents and their companion tools are tracked and referenced across development environments. Agent Manager is open-source software distributed via GitHub and Homebrew.

Tags: ai agent, cli, developer tools, OpenSource, terminal

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Key features

  • Curated Agent Catalog — Indexes over 100 terminal coding agents, AI routing proxies, and utility tools. - Embedded Registry — Uses Go-embedded catalog data (catalog.json) for zero-dependency offline querying and inspection. - Multi-Ecosystem Discovery — Aggregates agent tools distributed across Homebrew, npm, and native binary releases. - Catalog Synchronization — Includes automated tooling and check scripts to keep agent registry metadata current across updates. - Homebrew Integration — Ships with an official Homebrew formula for straightforward installation and updates on macOS and Linux.

Use cases

Use Case: Discovering CLI Coding Agents Developers exploring terminal-based AI tooling can search and inspect a unified catalog of agents, skills, and routing proxies to find the right tool for their stack without scouring multiple package registries.

Use Case: Managing Multi-Agent Developer Environments Engineers who rely on specialized agents for different workflows (e.g., code routing, automated PR generation, token monitoring) can use Agent Manager as a centralized index to track and maintain installed tooling.

Use Case: Toolchain Standardization Team leads can leverage the catalog to document and standardize recommended agent toolsets across engineering teams.

Who it is for

Agent Manager is suited for developers, DevOps engineers, and teams actively working with or evaluating multiple terminal-based AI coding agents and CLI LLM utilities. It is not an interactive LLM chat agent or standalone code generator itself.

Install guide

Installation Install Agent Manager using Homebrew or by building directly from source with Go: bash # Via Homebrew tap brew tap kevinelliott/agentmanager brew install agentmanager # Or build from source with Go (requires Go 1.21+) git clone https://github.com/kevinelliott/agentmanager.git cd agentmanager make build

First Run Verify that the binary is available in your PATH and check the current catalog version: bash agentmanager --version

Example Session Explore and search the agent catalog directly from your shell: bash # List all cataloged coding agents and tools agentmanager list # Search for specific agents or categories (e.g., token usage or routers) agentmanager search router # View detailed metadata for a specific agent agentmanager info claude-code-router

Part of CLI Coding Agents

Categories: AI Coding Agents, Developer Tools, Productivity

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