Compare hob

hob is the independent workspace where people and agents work together. It supports every way of working with agents: in parallel, in the background, as scheduled automations, and in panes you can see, on web pages, documents, data, and code, where you can take over at any time. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Grok Build run in it on your own accounts, and every result stays linked to the conversation behind it. See how hob compares.

Orchestration or collaboration

An orchestrator starts agent sessions, isolates them, shows you their state, and returns a result. hob does that too, but it is built for collaboration: people and agents operate the same workspace, and the agent works where you can see it.

In hob, an agent opens the preview, diff, or file beside its conversation. It reads and operates a live web page while you watch, annotates an image or PDF at the detail you need to judge, and asks you a question in place. It starts a second agent for a bounded task, such as a review, messages another agent pane, and files the issue it found. When it commits through hob, the commit links to the turn that produced it, so the reasoning is one click away months later.

It works in the other direction too. Mark up an image, PDF, web page, or spreadsheet to show an agent exactly what you mean, and send the markup with your request.

You choose how involved you are. Stay hands-on and review every step. Or go hands-off: give a task to a team of agents, let them divide and review the work, and run the repeatable parts as a scheduled automation. hob keeps the record either way.