Lead placement
Termic 0.24 · July 24
The worker got a staffing desk
Termic 0.24 adds an experimental command line for creating, listing, watching, opening, waiting on, and archiving tasks in the desktop app. It is designed to be scripted: JSON and streaming JSON report state, heartbeats separate a busy agent from a stuck one, and exit codes are pinned.
The consequential detail is who can use it. Every task receives the command path and its own identifier. An agent can open more tasks, wait for them, and read what they produced. The release notes call out the new operating pattern plainly: one agent can farm a job to several agents in parallel.
The unit of work is no longer one conversation. It is a roster.
For interface designers, that changes the supervision problem. A chat transcript cannot carry the full state of a team. The product now needs clear role names, worktree locations, start and finish signals, and a place where parallel results return for comparison. Delegation makes information architecture visible.