Show HN: 49Agents – Infinite canvas IDE for AI agents
49Agents is an open-source, infinite canvas IDE designed for AI agents. It allows users to manage multiple terminals and projects in a unified space without the need for SSH. The platform supports various devices and offers features like persistent layouts and multi-machine connectivity.
- ▪49Agents provides a zoomable canvas where users can arrange their workspace freely.
- ▪It allows real tmux sessions with full ANSI color and scrollback capabilities.
- ▪The IDE can be self-hosted or accessed through 49agents.com, with no data stored server-side.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/49Agents/49Agents |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:36:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T00:49:14.991Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T18:42:59.694Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | zYw9qCd-Y2MT |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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49 Agents IDE The first 2D agentic IDE. Open source. All agents. All terminals. All projects. All machines. One unified space. Before 49 Before 49 14 terminal tabs One zoomable canvas SSH into each machine All machines, zero SSH Alt-tab to check Claude Claude status on every pane Can't work from phone Any device, anywhere Terminal-only, no files Monaco editor on the canvas 🤷 Git graph 🤷 Interactive issue tables (Beads) 🤷 Permission notifications 🤷 Markdown notes Quick Start git clone https://github.com/49Agents/49Agents.git cd 49Agents ./49ctl setup # interactive setup (one time) ./49ctl start # start cloud server + agent Open http://localhost:1071. No account, no login, no token. Don't want to self-host? 49agents.com Desktop App (macOS) Download the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases.
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