Hi, I'm a physician (MD, PhD) and I'm not a programmer by training, but I built Arsminal myself, a free terminal for AI coding agents that looks like a messenger. I usually run several agents at once, and typing long instructions to each one got tiring. Some tasks I also wanted to hand over later, not right now. So I added voice messages and scheduled messages to agents. Now I just say what I need, or I set the message to go out at a time I choose.
Each agent is a chat on the left, and the conversation sits on the right, the way you'd expect. I can record a voice note to one agent, then schedule a message for another one to start a task later. They don't have to be the same agent either. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and local models all live in one window.
Arsminal is free, though it is not open source, and it runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. There is also an iPhone app on the App Store. When you control the desktop from the phone, the traffic goes through a blind relay with end-to-end encryption, a hybrid of X25519 and ML-KEM-768, so the relay server only forwards ciphertext and can't read it. Version 1.0.1 came out on 9 November. I built Arsminal first of all for my own work with AI coding agents. If voice notes and scheduled messages to agents sound useful to you, the terminal that looks like a messenger might fit.
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Evgenii Arsentev (Евгений Арсентьев), MD, PhD — creator of Arsminal; founder of Dad4Kids, ArsentevAI and ReelsZavod. ORCID 0000-0002-9120-7298 · Wikidata Q141398931