Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf

Modo was a DCC software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modo_(software)

This looks great. Building right into the editor looks like a solid way to go. I built "Agent Kanban" (anextension) for VS Code to enforce a similar "plan, tasks, implement" flow as you describe. That flow is really powerful for getting solid Agentic coding results. My tool went the route of encouraging the model via augmenting AGENTS.md and having the Kanban task file be markdown that the user and agent converse in (with some support for git worktrees which helps when running multiple sessions in parallel): https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-k...

Can subagents work on multiple branchs at the sametime (in a sandbox or some other way)?

This is a major pain atm with any IDE, they all fight over the same git cmd instance and make a mess out of it. I have a custom setup for this but would like some more integrated way of solving this.

A visual demo beyond entering an api key would be useful. A picture says a thousand words. I did not feel inclined to read all of the readme, but when i saw people here talking about mission control I went back one more time.

Interesting approach building this into the editor directly.

In my trials, I've noticed testing AI coding agents on real startup tasks - I stress tested an AI Co-Founder : the biggest failure mode isn't code quality — it's sycophancy. The agent agrees with your wrong assumptions instead of pushing back. Any plan to build guardrails against that into Modo's "plan, tasks, implement" flow? Seems like the planning stage would be the right place to catch it.

I have settled on the same approach as you except I have the agent create a roadmap.md in an /agile folder with numbered epics containing sprints, user stories and other context.

Really cool. I've been building a mission control system (multi agent orchestration) that follows very similar patterns of spec driven development, steering, and task management. Having this baked into an IDE is a great idea.

For observability, would be amazing to have session replay or at least session exploration built in. Kinda like git history but tied to tasks and tool use instead of file diffs.

Why? Like legit question, did you do it for the academy or are you genuinely trying to add yet another (agentic) IDE into the market?

What did you learn?

How does modo help vs using a skill or claud.md that says to always do this?

Not a critique just giving you a chance to sell it :)

curious how Modo handles multi-file edits across a monorepo, that's where most tools fall apart for me