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A personal orchestration tool for Claude Code agents

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Shannon – Local desktop app to orchestrate Claude Code agent teams

by lydionfinance·Feb 27, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidShip ItBig Brain

Visual orchestration for Claude agents, but limited to single model ecosystem.

Strengths
  • •Drag-and-drop DAG builder for parallel/sequential/custom agent flows saves coordination overhead
  • •Semantic prompt editor with XML syntax highlighting and AI rewrite is thoughtful detail
  • •Real-time monitoring dashboard shows task execution, code diffs, and agent chat simultaneously
Weaknesses
  • •Depends entirely on Claude Code ecosystem; no flexibility for other LLM providers
  • •Hobby project status suggests maintenance uncertainty and missing polish
Target Audience

Developers running multi-agent coding workflows, Claude Code power users

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Post Description

I ran into a problem when using Claude Code CLI on larger projects: I wanted to split work across specialized agents (one writes code, another reviews, another runs tests) and coordinate them with dependency graphs. Managing this across multiple terminal sessions was painful.

Shannon solves this:

- Create customized agents with different models (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) and system prompts - Build team workflows with a drag-and-drop DAG editor (parallel, sequential, or fully custom) - Describe your goal in natural language → AI analyzes your codebase and proposes a task plan with dependencies - Watch everything in real-time: task graph, agent chat, code diffs

There's also a Monaco-based prompt editor with semantic syntax highlighting for XML tags (the kind Claude responds well to), autocomplete, and an "AI Improve" button that rewrites your system prompt in one click.

Tech: Go backend, React frontend, Wails v2 for the desktop shell, SQLite for storage. It shells out to the Claude Code CLI under the hood — not calling the API directly — so you get all of Claude Code's built-in tools (file editing, bash, etc.)

Named after Claude Shannon, as you might guess.

Limitations: requires Claude Code CLI installed and authenticated. Local-only desktop app. Hobby project — expect rough edges. Workspace copies can eat disk space on large repos.

Linux and Windows builds available. MIT licensed.

https://github.com/yessGlory17/shannon

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