[HN Gopher] Outworked - An Open Source Office UI for Claude Code...
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       Outworked - An Open Source Office UI for Claude Code Agents
        
       Author : ZeidJ
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2026-03-23 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | ZeidJ wrote:
       | We've been building Outworked over the last couple of weekends as
       | a fun abstraction over Claude Code. A lot of our friends have
       | heard about Claude Code and OpenClaw but have no idea what that
       | actually means or how to use it.
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       | Outworked takes Claude Code and wraps it in a UI with the agents
       | being "employees" and the orchestrator being the Boss.
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       | Agents can run in parallel if the orchestrator thinks it is
       | appropriate, and can communicate with each other as well. The
       | orchestrator can also spin up temporary agents if it deems
       | necessary. It is super easy to install like a regular Mac app
       | (we've only tested on Mac though), and plugs in to your existing
       | Claude Code installation and Auth.
       | 
       | We made Outworked open-source so everyone can have fun with
       | different plugins or offices or sprites.
       | 
       | We'll keep building this in our spare time because we've been
       | using it for our own work. Would love to hear what you think or
       | what would be interesting to add.
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       | Happy building!
       | 
       | P.S. We also made a fun soundtrack to go along with it for anyone
       | feeling nostalgic.
        
       | willio58 wrote:
       | Love this idea. I wonder, does it work well? I haven't messed
       | much with this persona-based agent stuff.
       | 
       | I've always heard "just tell it to be a senior dev, then ask it
       | to do something and it will give you better output", is that true
       | in the experience of anyone? Genuinely curious.
       | 
       | This seems like that but taken to the next level with different
       | personas wrong together and with an interface to see them work
       | together, which is fun at the surface but is it actually better
       | than just asking an agent to do something?
        
         | ZeidJ wrote:
         | Thank you for this, it's a great point. Telling it to "be a
         | senior dev" helps a bit, but it's still just one stream of
         | thinking. What's been more useful for us is splitting work into
         | roles like risk analyst, comedy writer, UX researcher, sr. dev
         | etc... so there's some back and forth. Giving each agent a
         | different prompt or personality activates different parts of
         | the model, which we have found tends to produce better results
         | than asking it to handle everything at once.
         | 
         | What we've built is an intuitive way to approach this by
         | breaking work into distinct tasks.
         | 
         | Sometimes one agent is enough, but the multi-agent setup really
         | shines on larger/messy problems.
         | 
         | It's still early and we're figuring it out as we go. Really
         | appreciate the comment, thanks again!
        
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