Too Many Agents, Not Enough Terminals: Building the OMP Prompt Monitor

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1000

I had four terminals open and no clear idea what three of them were doing.

One was part-way through a migration. One was grinding through a dependency sweep. One had been quiet long enough that I’d stopped checking it. The fourth I genuinely could not identify. Somewhere inside it was a prompt I’d written twenty minutes earlier that I needed to read again. The only copy of that prompt was in a scrollback buffer I had already scrolled past.

Bun on Mr Wilde

Too Many Agents, Not Enough Terminals: Building the OMP Prompt Monitor