AI Productivity

The Builder

Draw your agent team on a canvas instead of filling in set-up forms — drag agents in, wire them together, and read the team back before anything starts. One segmented control switches between Hierarchy, Pipeline and Router on ⌘1, ⌘2 and ⌘3 without ever discarding what you already drew.

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The Builder Hierarchy canvas showing a Lead + 2 org chart with Lead on Claude managing Builder on Codex, Researcher on Grok and an OpenCode seat, with the inspector open on Role, Assignment and Relationships

The Builder Pipeline canvas with Implement, Test and Review as three ordered stages joined by quality gates, the agents palette down the left rail and Apply and Start team in the mode bar

The Builder Router lens mapping work types — plan, implement, test, review, browser, docs, research and debug — onto Claude, Codex, Pi, Gemini and Hermes, with seven of eight routed

The Builder generate bar reading "codex implements, claude tests, opencode reviews" with the Generate button beside it, drafting a three-stage pipeline onto the canvas above the live diagram text pane

Why You Need This

How this feature boosts your daily productivity

Setting up a multi-agent team used to mean describing a shape you could not see: a role in one field, a reporting relationship in a dropdown pointing at a name you typed three fields earlier, and no picture of the result until you pressed Start and watched it behave. The Builder makes the team the thing on screen. A palette rail holds your agents, the terminals already running, work types and saved presets; starting a drag raises the seats that can accept it and dims the ones that cannot, so a refusal costs you nothing and never opens a dialog. Every consequential action explains itself first — Apply shows the difference between your draft and what is live, Start opens the seat table naming the terminals it will use, and removing a role tells you what happens to everyone reporting to it. ⌘Z undoes anything. If you would rather write than draw, a generate bar turns "a lead that reviews two implementers" into a chart, and a text pane round-trips the whole team to a readable diagram syntax and back so you can paste one in or copy yours out.

How It Works

Get started in 4 simple steps

Open the Orchestration dashboard

You land on a canvas instead of a set-up flow. A palette rail on the left holds agents, live terminals, work types and your saved presets.

Drag agents in and wire them together

Start a drag and the canvas raises the places you can drop. A seat that cannot take what you are dragging simply dims, so a refusal never costs you a dialog.

Edit any seat or wire in the inspector

Click a seat or a wire to set its role, agent, model and brief. ⌘Z undoes anything you did on the canvas.

Switch modes without losing work

Hierarchy, Pipeline and Router sit on one segmented control at ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3, each with its own colour. Your org chart stays put while you look at Pipeline, and converting one shape into another is an explicit card you choose.

Read the diff before you apply

Every consequential action states what it will do first, so Apply is a decision rather than a surprise.

Without 1DevTool

The manual way vs. the 1DevTool way

The Hard Way

# Configure the team through a set-up flow

# Answer questions about a shape you cannot see

# Finish, then find out what you actually built

# Switch tabs and the last shape is quietly converted

# Start over to change one seat

The 1DevTool Way

Drag agents onto one canvas and wire them up.

Valid drops raise; invalid seats just dim.

Hierarchy, Pipeline and Router on ⌘1/⌘2/⌘3.

Apply shows the diff before anything happens.

Key Capabilities

Everything included with The Builder

Drag agents onto a canvas instead of filling in a set-up flow

Pull agents, live terminals, work types and saved presets from the palette rail

See valid drop targets raised, and invalid seats dim instead of erroring

Edit a seat or wire’s role, agent, model and brief in the inspector

Undo any canvas change with ⌘Z

Switch Hierarchy, Pipeline and Router on ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3

Keep each mode’s work intact when you switch between them

Convert one team shape into another as an explicit, chosen step

Read what Apply will change before it changes anything

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