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I got tired of juggling terminal windows for every AI agent, so I built an all-in-one IDE
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I got tired of juggling terminal windows for every AI agent, so I built an all-in-one IDE

via Dev.toKhoa Nguyen

If you use AI coding agents like Claude Code , Codex CLI , Gemini CLI , or Amp , you probably have a mess of terminal windows scattered across your screen. Switching between projects means losing context, and there's no easy way to see what all your agents are doing at once. I kept closing everything at the end of a session and spending the first 10 minutes of the next one just getting back to where I was. So I built something to fix that. What is 1DevTool? 1DevTool is an Electron app that gives you a single persistent workspace per project — multiple real terminals, a file explorer, code editor, HTTP client, database client, and an embedded browser, all in one window. The core idea: your AI agents shouldn't live in isolated terminal tabs. They should coexist in a layout you control, with full context preserved across sessions. Key features 🔲 Multi-agent layout Run multiple AI agents simultaneously in a 2×2 grid, columns, or single-focus layout. See everything at once. 💾 Terminal persi

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