---
title: "abtop Gives Developers a Real-Time Dashboard for Parallel AI Coding Agents"
subtitle: "abtop is a free, open-source Rust TUI that gives you a real-time htop-style dashboard for all your Claude Code and Codex CLI sessions at once"
url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/abtop-gives-developers-a-real-time-dashboard-for-parallel-ai-coding-agents"
author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom"
author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team"
company: "AlphaSignal"
company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/alphasignal"
published: "2026-06-08T07:46:18.000Z"
updated: "2026-06-11T07:22:09.457Z"
type: "Repo"
topics:
  - "Development"
  - "Agents"
subtopics:
  - "Code Agents"
  - "Code Agents"
  - "Tool Use"
upvotes: 111
source_url: "https://github.com/graykode/abtop"
comments: 0
truncated: true
---

# abtop Gives Developers a Real-Time Dashboard for Parallel AI Coding Agents

> abtop is a free, open-source Rust TUI that gives you a real-time htop-style dashboard for all your Claude Code and Codex CLI sessions at once

[abtop](https://github.com/graykode/abtop) is the monitoring tool that should have existed the moment developers started running more than one AI coding agent at a time. Built in Rust by **graykode**, it drops a dense, keyboard-driven terminal dashboard onto your screen that tracks every active Claude Code and Codex CLI session in real time -- token spend, context window fill, rate limits, spawned child processes, and open ports, all in one place. Think htop, but the metrics that matter are tokens and quotas instead of CPU and RAM.

## The problem it solves

If you've ever opened three terminal windows running three Claude Code sessions and lost track of which one is stuck, which one is bleeding tokens, and which one is about to hit a rate limit, abtop is the dashboard you wanted. The multi-agent workflow is now mainstream -- in 2026, the real question is how to run multiple agents together without everything collapsing into chaos. With subagent workflows, each agent team run burns through limits faster because you are running multiple context windows in parallel. Without a unified view, you're flying blind.

In identical benchmark tasks, Claude Code used 4x more tokens than Codex. Token costs accumulate with heavy autonomous use, so tracking usage matters. abtop puts that tracking directly in your terminal, with no external service required.

## What it actually shows you

See every Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode session at a glance -- token usage, context window %, rate limits, child processes, open ports, and more. The dashboard is organized around the problems you actually hit when running agents in parallel:

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## Sources

- [graykode/abtop - GitHub](https://github.com/graykode/abtop)
- [abtop - htop for AI coding agents | Discovery by Nirav Joshi](https://discovery.niravjoshi.dev/entry/abtop)
- [abtop: Best CLI Tools for Developers Running AI Coding Agents in 2026 | ToolHunter](https://toolhunter.cc/tools/abtop)
- [Multi-Agent Orchestration for Developers in 2026 | Scopir](https://scopir.com/posts/multi-agent-orchestration-parallel-coding-2026/)
- [abtop - AI Agents on GitHub | SkillsLLM](https://skillsllm.com/skill/abtop)