M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs

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Hey r/emacs,

I’ve been building M-x Machina, an Emacs package for keeping multiple coding-agent sessions organized alongside your regular editing.

It started with a fairly simple wish: I wanted to see which agents were working, which needed my input, and which had replied—without constantly switching between conversations.

What it does so far:

\- A persistent sidebar with agent status, unread indicators, and attention navigation.

\- Named agents organized in nested folders, with optional Git worktrees.

\- Conversations that open beside the sidebar, plus a focus mode when you want the whole frame.

\- An optional board view grouped by folder and status.

\- Saved conversation identities and explicit resume support.

\- Opt-in agent-to-agent messaging through a local CLI, mxm.

It builds on agent-shell/ACP, EAT, and vterm, with eshell as a companion for working in an agent’s checkout. Plain Emacs is supported; Doom and Evil bindings are optional.

The entry point is, naturally:

M-x mx-machina

It’s experimental, rather than something I’d call stable yet. Automated tests cover the core and transport integrations, but broader real-world installation and restart testing are still on the list

Website and interactive tour: https://eliraz-refael.github.io/m-x-machina/

Source and setup: https://github.com/eliraz-refael/m-x-machina

Requires Emacs 29.1+ with SQLite. GPL-3.0-or-later.

I’d love feedback—especially on whether the sidebar/board approach fits your workflow, and where we could make better use of Emacs itself.

Cheers!


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