Getting started: what DevThrottle is and how it fits

DevThrottle is the open source control room for command-line coding agents. It does not replace the coding agent you use - it runs, watches, and steers the agents you already run, so you can keep several of them moving without losing track. The app installs and runs on your own machine, and your agents run there too. This guide is a plain-English tour of the pieces and how they fit.

The one idea

A coding agent runs one task at a time in a terminal. The moment you run more than one, you are juggling windows - which agent is working, which finished, which quietly asked a question twenty minutes ago and has been idle ever since. DevThrottle puts every agent on one place and tells you which one needs you. That is the whole idea; everything below serves it.

Director - every agent in one place

Director is the desktop app you keep open all day. Every agent you run shows up as a card, color-coded by state - Working, Waiting on you, or Done. Click the one that needs you and answer right there. No more cycling through a dozen terminals to find the window that stalled.

Gateway - the always-on hub

The Gateway is the background service that keeps your agents reachable.

Cockpit and Mobile - answer from anywhere

You do not have to be at your desk. The same fleet is waiting in the Cockpit in any browser, and in your pocket on mobile. An agent gets blocked while you are in a meeting or on a walk - you answer it from your phone and keep the work moving.

Voice - talk to your agents hands-free

Voice lets you answer and steer agents by talking instead of typing. Dictation and spoken replies are included in Pro, with nothing to set up. When you dictate, DevThrottle sends your voice audio to be transcribed.

It works with the agents you already use

DevThrottle is vendor-neutral. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and more all run on the same sessions, and you keep your own subscriptions and keys - running them through DevThrottle costs nothing. If you are weighing which agent to start with, the Terminal-Bench scoreboard shows how they score on real command-line work.

Where to go next

If you have not installed yet, start with Install DevThrottle and run your first agent. If you are not sure which agent and plan fit you, take the two-minute quiz for an honest, personalized path.