Hi, I’m Rob, the founder of Zenbu

The problem

Coding agents are changing how software gets built, but they also create a new kind of complexity: running several agents in parallel, reviewing changes nobody wrote by hand, verifying their work, switching contexts, and keeping track of the codebase.

The solution

Zenbu is an IDE for managing that complexity.

It’s built on top on Pi, the minimal, customizable coding agent. Around Pi, Zenbu adds an extensible IDE where everything is a plugin, including the tools for managing agents.

That matters because every developer and company works with agents differently. Instead of forcing one workflow, Zenbu lets the best solutions get built as plugins by developers and teams with their own needs. Over time, the best ways to work with agents become part of the shared foundation everyone can build on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUbY8zdv7Rc

About me

I build developer tools. I co-authored React Scan, an open source tool now at 22k GitHub stars and 800k weekly installs. I also worked at Vercel, where I joined the Next.js team and built an internal development environment.

Zenbu is the IDE I wanted for working with coding agents every day.

Asks

I’d love to hear from developers who use coding agents seriously, especially if you customize your setup.

Try it at zenbu.dev and tell me what you’d change first: rob@zenbu.dev