How does Agent Changes work in 1DevTool?

Step 1: Open Agent Changes — It lives in the right dock and under the top bar's Changes menu, beside Git Diff. The home screen opens on what needs you, where agents collide and who is working on what. Step 2: Pick a level for this project — Off, Watch (“record who's changing what and keep every version—never gets in the way”) or Guide (“also tells agents what they are about to write over—never blocks anything”). Off by default, per project and per working tree. Step 3: Read the Map while they work — Each line connects an agent to a file it is changing right now; the Everyone / Only conflicts switch narrows it, and the legend tells you which lines are told-before-it-writes, cooperating, watching or in conflict. Step 4: Let the app come to you — A count on the Changes menu, a ring in the File Explorer on files an agent is working in, and a pill over the terminal when that tab's agent changed files—or wrote over yours.

How does Agent Changes in 1DevTool compare to Cursor, Orca and git?

When several agents share a checkout, people work out who changed what from git status and diffs, or give each agent its own worktree. Cursor: Cursor can run several agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree, so each agent's changes show up as a separate diff. Orca: Orca isolates each agent in its own git worktree and shows that worktree's changes in a diff view for review. git: git status and git diff list what changed in the working tree, and git blame covers committed lines. Uncommitted edits carry no author. 1DevTool: It records each write by agent and file inside one shared checkout as it happens, and neither Watch nor Guide ever blocks an agent or alters a write.

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Agent Changes

See which agent is changing which file while it happens, without reading a diff or asking. The Agent Changes panel answers three questions on one screen — what needs you, where two agents collide, and who is working on what right now.

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The Map view open beside a live agent terminal, connecting Cursor and three Devin sessions to the files each is changing

A “Cursor CLI changed activity-log.ts registry.ts” pill floating over the terminal tab whose agent made the writes

The Timeline tab, “Who worked when”, with one lane per agent and a mark for every recorded change

File Explorer rings marking files an agent is working in, with an editor banner naming the agent working on the open file

Why You Need This

How this feature boosts your daily productivity

Run more than one coding agent in a checkout and you lose the thread fast: a file changes and nothing says which agent did it, two agents quietly edit the same lines, and git only shows you the wreckage after the fact. Agent Changes records the writing as it happens, per agent and per file, so “who changed this and when” is a glance rather than an investigation. It is off by default and chosen per project and per working tree — Watch records who's changing what and keeps every version without getting in the way; Guide also tells cooperating agents what they are about to write over. Neither level ever blocks an agent or alters a write.

How It Works

Get started in 4 simple steps

Open Agent Changes

It lives in the right dock and under the top bar's Changes menu, beside Git Diff. The home screen opens on what needs you, where agents collide and who is working on what.

Pick a level for this project

Off, Watch (“record who's changing what and keep every version—never gets in the way”) or Guide (“also tells agents what they are about to write over—never blocks anything”). Off by default, per project and per working tree.

Read the Map while they work

Each line connects an agent to a file it is changing right now; the Everyone / Only conflicts switch narrows it, and the legend tells you which lines are told-before-it-writes, cooperating, watching or in conflict.

Let the app come to you

A count on the Changes menu, a ring in the File Explorer on files an agent is working in, and a pill over the terminal when that tab's agent changed files—or wrote over yours.

Without 1DevTool

The manual way vs. the 1DevTool way

The Hard Way

# three agents in one checkout

$ git status

# 11 files changed, no idea by whom

$ git diff

# read 400 lines to guess who did what

# ask each agent what it touched

# two of them answer the same file

The 1DevTool Way

Agent Changes -> Watch

Who's working on what

Cursor -> activity-log.ts, registry.ts

Devin -> pomodoro-widget.ts

Map: Everyone | Only conflicts

Ring in File Explorer, pill over the terminal

How it compares

When several agents share a checkout, people work out who changed what from git status and diffs, or give each agent its own worktree.

Agent Changes: 1DevTool compared with Cursor, Orca, git

AppAgent ChangesHow it handles this

1DevToolBuilt in
Built in
It records each write by agent and file inside one shared checkout as it happens, and neither Watch nor Guide ever blocks an agent or alters a write.
CursorPartly
Partly
Cursor can run several agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree, so each agent's changes show up as a separate diff.
OrcaPartly
Partly
Orca isolates each agent in its own git worktree and shows that worktree's changes in a diff view for review.
gitNot built in
Not built in
git status and git diff list what changed in the working tree, and git blame covers committed lines. Uncommitted edits carry no author.

Checked November 2026 against each app's public docs. These products change quickly. If a row is out of date, tell us at feedback.stoicsoft.com/1devtool.

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Key Capabilities

Everything included with Agent Changes

See which agent is changing which file, as it happens

Read a live map of agent-to-file lines, filtered to everyone or just the conflicts

Choose Off, Watch or Guide per project and per working tree

Let Guide tell a cooperating agent what it is about to write over

Check “Works for N of M” to see which agents are told before they write

Spot a change from a ring in the File Explorer or a pill over the terminal

Read Who worked when on a timeline, one lane per agent

Set a size budget for the vault and release what you no longer need

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