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. Everything runs on your own machine; your code never leaves it. 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 a single board and tells you which one needs you. That is the whole idea; everything below serves it.
Director - every agent on one board
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 - keeps your agents running
The Gateway is the background service that keeps your agents alive and reachable. Close the Director window and your agents keep going; reopen it and the board is exactly where you left it. Director is a view you open, not a process you have to babysit.
Cockpit and Mobile - answer from anywhere
Because the Gateway keeps everything running, you do not have to be at your desk. The same board 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. Use our hosted transcription, or bring your own key - your call. It is optional, and it is the only thing DevThrottle ever sends off your machine, and even then only your voice, never your code.
It works with the agents you already use
DevThrottle is vendor-neutral. Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini, and more all run on the same board, and you keep your own subscriptions and keys - we never charge you for AI tokens. 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.
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