Powering Up Your Agentic Coding Levels

Building A Terminal Based Multi Project Agentic Coding Interface

“There’s levels to this” - Meek Mill

That’s my current belief of Agentic Coding right now. For every new person still painstakingly working in IDEs instructing their Agent one file at a time, there are people who have entire automated coding workflows going on right now (just check out clawdbot or Linear). We’ve hit escape velocity for Agentic Coding as we can scale coding agents that are high quality right now. Not enough people have noticed, but the successful people, the people who know how to pivot and be consistently productive, have noticed and are now building 12 coding projects around the clock with minimal oversight.

This article will introduce how to run multiple projects semi-autonomously all in the terminal and require just basic prompting to accomplish our project goals. This gets our Codex skills upgraded from beginner to intermediate, with room to run to expert as you scale agents out. By the end you’ll have:

• one bash script = full workspace interface setup

• one zellij tab = one organized project context to work in

• notifications when the agent finishes its work

• global agent rules so every repo behaves the same

We’ve previously talked about getting started with OpenAI’s Agentic Coder in Codex, if you have not read it, check it out first.

Getting Started with Agentic Coding with OpenAI's Codex

In this article I am going to share my simple terminal and shell setup with Codex that will help optimize your setup so that it scales up to build multiple projects at once. We will be building a terminal based workflow that has an easy load UI using Zellij to load all CLI tools into the same Tab and then having multiple tabs per Vibe\Agentic coded project. We will tweak Codex a bit more with better configuration so that it operates better across projects. Then I will show you a small project I made for Mac that gives native notifications when Codex finishes its turn. Let’s begin.