logoalt Hacker News

aliasxneoyesterday at 7:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

First time hearing of Omnigent. Anyone have experience using it?


Replies

deathmonger5000yesterday at 11:44 PM

If you’re into web based meta-harnesses you might like Circus Chief: https://github.com/ferrislucas/Circus-Chief

Similar idea re using the same UI across all models, but the agent can modify the harness config as well as start/schedule sessions, etc. The Kanban board feature can be used to orchestrate agent driven workflows, and the agent itself can modify the Kanban lanes. Basically the agent can do all the same things you use the UI for.

Example prompt: “schedule a session using Opus 5 with max thinking for every feature in the PRD on the canvas. For every session make the prompt instruct the agent to review end to end test coverage for the feature and create a report on the canvas for test gaps that you find. Schedule the sessions overnight tonight spread evenly throughout the night, and have each session set to retry upon token exhaustion.”

I think it’s more meta than other meta-harnesses, but I’m biased because it’s my pet project.

notduckrabbityesterday at 8:15 PM

I've tested Omnigent superficially, attracted to its thinking around policy, governance, sandboxing, and ui. But it's still alpha at present. I forked its Polly model and got working a somewhat more complex multiagent workflow that I've also modeled in Sandcastle and Gas City but the agent broke after the next update which I would have needed to patch to maintain functionality. Subjectively I also noticed individual models seemed to be performing somewhat worse when wrapped in the platform's framework, presumably due to the extra context introduced (token use was measurably higher). Promising project that I'll revisit when it's further along and I do not doubt the outcomes Databricks claims in committedly dogfooding it.

show 1 reply
vehemenzyesterday at 9:18 PM

I've been using it for a week or so. The main draw for me is that I can keep my sessions in one database regardless of the model/provider I use. The webapp can access everything remotely, which is convenient when I'm on my phone.

I haven't gotten a chance to test the multi-agent capabilities, but the DeepSeek Flash prices are so low that I probably will soon.