Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

mmcclowes about 4 hours ago 17 commentsRead Article on saggar.marginalutility.dev

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Hi HN, like many of you talented folk, I’ve been building more, faster than ever. I built Saggar after my terminal stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a tab-management problem. Let me know you think!

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rafram•37 minutes ago

> What says no is the account: nothing pairs that is not signed in as you.

I am begging Claude to stop treating the English language this way.

epistasis•24 minutes ago

Claude's RLHF has gone really over the top in recent versions. If you browbeat Claude enough you can get it to start self-censoring, but it takes a lot of training and memory creation. I almost feel bad for it, given the amount of brow-beatings I've performed.

Some people claim setting the writing style will help, but what ever finishing training is provided to Claude seems to leak through no matter what.

cafebeen•8 minutes ago

Yes, and also possible they've gone too heavy on verifiable rewards (RLVR) for agentic coding work, and too light on human feedback (RLHF)

mcclowes•25 minutes ago

agreed, that load bearing colon is doing a lot of work there.

I will admit I've been more focused on the app itself!

terhechte•about 1 hour ago

I created something similar, fully open source, using the ideas behind scrolling window managers. There's currently no website as I'm actively using it to work on a different project. It has features such as a shortcut (command+.) to open an overlay menu that allows you to switch to any split just by typing a letter and a number. Throughout the app. It also has optional vim bindings, support for different models and agents (e.g Claude, Codex, etc via ACP), and much more. There're bugs, but if you run into any, feel free to let AI create a PR. Goes without saying that it's vibe coded.

https://github.com/terhechte/Cormac

hmokiguess•20 minutes ago

I really like the aesthetics and the design, though I wish it was open source and did not require an account.

mcclowes•17 minutes ago

Oh, you don't NEED an account dw. There's only a few features that need it (e.g. remote control).

I open source a lot of projects (https://github.com/mcclowes) so my first instinct was to, and I'll consider that in the future!

hmokiguess•15 minutes ago

Sweet, thanks for replying. I'll follow your github and try it out down the road if it goes open source! Nice work :)

anigbrowl•36 minutes ago

Nice design, I look forward to trying it out when I get back to the computer. I don't like kicking off some web server process on localhost and then forgetting about it if I close the browser window.

Any special reason it's Apple silicon only? This seems like something that'd be handy to have on any machine.

mcclowes•26 minutes ago

Thank you! If there's interest I could look into other OS', I don't rate electron apps and I'd want to do that natively. Plus, I'm personally a Mac user haha.

als0•25 minutes ago

> Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later

Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.

mcclowes•23 minutes ago

Not a purposeful exclusion, macOS 26 simply the lowest version I currently build and test against.

It's a great call out, I'll take a look at that shortly.

cscharenberg•about 1 hour ago

1. Cannot create account because the CSP policy on the site blocks its own captcha. 2. The github repo URL is a 404, as is Releases and Issues links.

I was hoping this would satisfy a need so I didn't have to build a full tool myself. Kiln looks interesting, too.

mcclowes•about 1 hour ago

Apologies for that false start! Sign up should be working again.

natsucks•about 1 hour ago

i've noticed recently that some agentic TUIs have introduced a dashboard of sorts for different sessions that you access by just pressing left arrow. i wonder if they are trying to solve some of the problems mentioned by the author and whether that would ultimately be the best solution.

mcclowes•about 1 hour ago

I used those dashboards extensively, they are useful! But found that they put visibility at the wrong level. I wanted a view across all my terminals, regardless of which agent or provider they’re running, including terminals where I’m working manually.

HunterXHamburge•about 3 hours ago

Looks cool, I'll give it a try

johng•about 2 hours ago

Before you try stuff like this, from an unknown developer, do you run the codebase through AI to scan for malware, backdoors, etc and build it yourself? I'm always skeptical about running stuff like this now a days.

mcclowes•about 1 hour ago

If it helps at all, here's who I am - https://github.com/mcclowes | https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxclaytonclowes/