Junction

Eight terminal windows. That’s what I counted on my desktop this morning — three of them running different AI coding agents alone. OpenCode in one tab, Goose in another, Hermes Dashboard eating up a browser window. Every swap meant alt-tabbing through a maze. So when I stumbled on Junction — a VS Code extension that puts all 7 local agent backends into one sidebar panel — I was sold. Setup took about 30 seconds. ...

So you’ve got OpenClaw for TypeScript, Hermes for general-purpose agent work, Goose for CLI-first automation, MiMoCode for MCP-native workflows, OpenCode as a Claude Code clone, and Souveraine for reasoning-heavy tasks. That’s six terminals, six CLIs, six sets of commands, six ways to attach a file. And that’s not even counting OpenHands. Then I found Junction — a VS Code extension that pulls all seven into one sidebar panel. 512 stars in 3 days as of this writing. Here’s why that number already makes sense. ...