{"id":109244,"title":"Agent FM: One group chat to hear and steer your coding agents.","tagline":"Computer use + live audio updates + group chat with your agents. One command center to end agent babysitting.","body":"Hi everyone 👋\n\nWe're [Aniket](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anideshp/) \u0026amp; [Mugdhaa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mugdhaa-patankar/), co-founders of [Agent FM](https://www.agentfm.ai/).\n\n**TL;DR:** Agent FM is a desktop app that gives engineers one group chat to hear and steer their coding agents. Instead of manually bouncing between different claude code and codex sessions, and combing through walls of text to monitor agents, engineers just tune in to Agent FM. Agents share important progress updates, blockers, assumptions, and decisions in the group chat. Engineers get live text and audio updates and respond right from the chat.\n\n**Launch video:** \u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGLQwclkYI\u003e \n\n#### The Problem:\n\n**Babysitting agents is exhausting.** Engineers running claude code and codex agents spend all day bouncing between multiple sessions, combing through walls of text to keep track of the work. In long horizon tasks, agents often go down the wrong paths, add unnecessary complexity or make bad assumptions that waste time and tokens. Agents can also sometimes misinterpret instructions, make poor decisions, or perform destructive actions due to lack of context and context compaction. To avoid this, engineers continuously keep tabs on their agents, read agent trajectories realtime for anything substantial worth intercepting. This gets really exhausting with more agents and time. We lack the tooling that automatically does this for engineers.\n\n#### Our Solution:\n\n* **One interface to rule them all:** Computer use + live audio updates + group chat with your agents. One command center to interact with your coding agents without babysitting and manually polling different Claude Code and Codex sessions.\n* **Actionable metrics and insights into agent activity across model providers:** Deep insights and metrics about token spend across providers, cost distribution, skills and mcp token performance, and recurring patterns.\n* **Works with the tools engineers already use:** No setup needed. Agent FM automatically works across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and other coding tools. Local and remote workspaces supported.\n* **Voice-to-text AI**: Context aware and low-latency voice-to-text AI to prompt 4x faster anywhere on your computer.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=109244\u0026key=user_uploads/355672/6ac94f50-a6ac-4b2d-9290-819f9711037e)\n\n#### Traction\n\n* **410 engineers** are using Agent FM (**60+ paying**), \n* **120k+ audio updates** heard by engineers. \n* **1.2 hours/day** average time spent on Agent FM\n\n#### Our asks\n\n* Give Agent FM a try and let us know what you think: [agentfm.ai](http://agentfm.ai)\n* If there’s a team or company you think would benefit with Agent FM, write to us at [founders@agentfm.ai](mailto:founders@agentfm.ai) \n\n#### The Team:\n\nAniket and Mugdhaa have known each other for almost 10 years and co-founded Agent FM in 2026.\n\nAniket (CEO) worked at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he built agent-orchestration, RL, and search infra, fine-tuned models, grew Meta AI monthly active users by 250K and built critical parts of the Llama training data flywheel.\n\nMugdhaa (CTO) led AI for developer productivity at Snowflake, where she built model harnesses, evals, developer tooling, and orchestration systems that help engineers adopt AI and move faster. Before Snowflake, she worked at Twitch on live video playback and distribution, building systems that keep Twitch reliable at scale for the biggest live events on the internet (Ibai La Velada, MrBeast), serving 10M+ concurrent requests.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=109244\u0026key=user_uploads/355672/79a7e968-4c77-4cf1-9e92-437dd51c7d1b)\n\n","slug":"SQ0-agent-fm-one-group-chat-to-hear-and-steer-your-coding-agents","created_at":"2026-08-05T14:44:22.659Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T07:40:55.998Z","total_vote_count":25,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SQ0-agent-fm-one-group-chat-to-hear-and-steer-your-coding-agents","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=109244\u0026key=user_uploads/355672/79a7e968-4c77-4cf1-9e92-437dd51c7d1b","company":{"id":33250,"name":"Agent FM","slug":"agent-fm","url":"https://www.agentfm.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cc0ea423493737ae6717d834b6bdb19aaf41f58.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","Productivity"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/33250"}}