wtf is iudex?

Iudex is a desktop app for running several AI coding agents at once, treated like a small engineering team instead of one assistant in a terminal. You describe work as tickets, the app spins up a separate git worktree and branch for each one, an agent implements it there, a QA agent reviews the diff, and a human makes the final call on whether it merges to main. The problem it addresses is that running multiple agents in parallel by hand gets messy fast: branches overlap, it becomes unclear what has been reviewed, and you stop trusting your main branch. Iudex adds a structured pipeline around that without becoming another agent itself. Everything it tracks lives as plain git history plus an append only event log on disk, with no background service and no database, so deleting the app still leaves your git history intact. The interface is built around seven views: a dashboard showing the pipeline and a live event feed, a tabbed terminal for interacting with running agent sessions, a tickets table, a live view into each agent's activity, a per worktree diff inspector, a review screen that is the human approval gate, and a settings page for configuring agent commands and prompts. Automation features like auto QA or auto retire are opt in and only apply for the current session, so nothing spends effort on its own by default. It works with any command line coding agent you configure, including Claude Code or Aider, and is agent agnostic by design. A ticket moves through defined states from queued to active to pending QA to pending human review to done, and if QA rejects it too many times it lands in a failed state waiting for a retry. Everything can also be driven directly from the command line using commands like iudex init, iudex queue, iudex activate, and iudex human-qa approve, since the desktop app and terminal are two interfaces to the same underlying engine. The desktop app ships for macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux x86_64, bundles its own command line tool, and needs tmux 3.2 or newer for the terminal and agent views. A standalone command line build only needs Go 1.22 or newer and git.