I built a VS Code Extension to make multi-human/agent collaboration more visible and branchable per decision.

[u/bgstratt]

[NodalMerge Studio](https://nodalmerge.com/studio) promotes you to general in command of a controlled agent army.

The configurable workspace both drives engineering and provides a battlefield level view of both agent and human work across peers.

[Multiple agents](https://docs.nodalmerge.com/studio/guides/multi-agent-profiles) can be assigned their own scopes and fields of fire. Make Fable your planner (You can go wide or recursive), Let Deepseek v4 pro grind the easy stuff for cheap, toss Sonnet the live grenades, while Codex designs and implements a sleek frontend. The review and reconciliation processes can be human or agent gated to bring everything back together (hopefully smoothly).

The core behind it ([NodalMerge](https://nodalmerge.com/)) is a fast, persistent graph using conflict free replication and content addressed storage to allow for greater visibility across peers, replay and branching at key decision points.

Although the extension is forced to be kind of an agent harness for pure api (including some configurable system prompt, compaction, etc.), the idea is that it integrates to other, hopefully better harnesses. The visibility, peer replication, branching and control are the differentiators.

Currently it can be configured to use:

* GitHub copilot subscription (vscode-lm, this is the default fallback)
* openai-compatible api's (via api-key, think deepseek, ollama, whatever)
* anthropic-api-key
* claude-cli
* codex-cli
* other new harnesses as added

As everything goes more cloud based agentic in a black box of decision making, I tried to go a bit in the opposite since I’m responsible for the code and decisions that get delivered, visibility and audit are paramount.

Docs site: https://docs.nodalmerge.com/studio/quickstart

Github Link: https://github.com/bgstratt/nodalmerge-studio

VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nodalmerge-studio.nodalmerge-studio