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Multistack

Run multiple zerostack agents side by side in your terminal, allowing to spawn, watch, rename, kill all underlying processes.

Multistack is designed to be a native, lightweight and open-soruce competitor to Conductor.

What it does

• Spawn parallel agents: each one gets its own PTY, running zerostack --parallel under the hood
• Live status tracking: see at a glance who's working [~], done [✓], dead [X], or waiting [ ], with per-agent timers
• Drop into any agent: hit Enter on a process to see its full terminal output, keystrokes pass straight through
• Status signal support: multistack listens for start/stop signals from zerostack via Unix sockets, so timers and indicators stay accurate even across headless loop iterations

Install

Homebrew (recommended)

brew tap gi-dellav/tap
brew trust gi-dellav/tap   # required for Homebrew 6.0.0+
brew install multistack    # zerostack installed automatically

Script

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gi-dellav/multistack/main/install.sh | bash

Cargo

cargo install multistack

You need zerostack on your PATH, plus a recent Rust toolchain.

Keybindings

Agent list (normal mode)

Key	Action
n	Spawn new agent — prompts for a name, creates a git worktree
N	Spawn new agent in parallel mode — no prompt, jumps straight to TTY
m	Spawn bare agent — no worktree, no --parallel, jumps to TTY
p	Add project — opens directory picker
l	Remove project and all its agents
h	Open lazygit in the project (or agent worktree) directory
s	Open $SHELL in the project (or agent worktree) directory
r	Rename selected agent
d	Delete (kill) selected agent
Enter	Drop into the selected agent's TTY
↑ / ↓	Move selection
PageUp / PageDown	Jump to previous / next project header
q	Quit
Esc	Quit (press twice if agents have git conflicts)

TTY view (agent / lazygit / shell)

Key	Action
Esc	Return to agent list
All other keys	Forwarded to the underlying process

Prompt (new agent / rename / new project)

Key	Action
Enter	Confirm
Esc	Cancel
Backspace	Delete last character
Printable chars	Append to input

Directory picker

Key	Action
Enter	Add selected directory as a project
Esc	Cancel, return to agent list
/	Start filtering directories (type to narrow, Esc to clear)
All other keys	Navigate the file tree

Requirements

• Linux/BSD/macOS (uses Unix domain sockets and PTYs)
• zerostack v1.5+ built with the status-signals feature (default from v1.5)
• Rust 1.85+ (2024 edition)

License

GPL-3.0-only