agents-control-tower

agents-control-tower

Your Cursor agents are running. Do you know what they're doing?

Five cloud agents in parallel. One is stuck. One finished and opened a PR.
One errored out 10 minutes ago and you didn't notice.
You're alt-tabbing between browser tabs trying to keep track.

Welcome aboard the control tower. One terminal. All your agents. Full control.

   

The Tower Is Watching

You launched a Cursor cloud agent 20 minutes ago. Did it finish? Did it open a PR? Did it crash?

Your options right now:

• Open cursor.com, find the agents page, scroll, click, read
• Check your email for a notification that may or may not come
• Hope for the best

agents-control-tower is a retro terminal dashboard that connects to the Cursor Cloud Agents API and shows you everything in one screen. Launch new agents, send follow-up instructions, stop runaway agents, delete finished ones. All without leaving your terminal.

npx agents-control-tower

One command. The tower lights up.

The Dashboard

Running agents pulse amber. Done agents link to their PR. Errors glow red.

What's Different

	Cursor web dashboard	Conduit	SwarmClaw	agents-control-tower
Cursor-native	yes	no	no	yes
Terminal UI	no	yes	no	yes
Launch agents	no	no	partial	yes
Follow-up / stop / delete	no	no	no	yes
Local agent hooks	no	no	no	Phase 2
Retro ASCII aesthetic	no	no	no	yes
One command install	n/a	yes	no	yes

What You Can Do

Key	Action
n	Launch a new cloud agent	Pick repo, write prompt, choose model
f	Send follow-up	Give a running agent new instructions
s	Stop an agent	Kill it mid-run
d	Delete an agent	Remove permanently
o	Open in browser	Jump to the PR or agent URL
enter	View details	Full conversation, metadata, status
↑↓ / jk	Navigate	Move between agents
r	Refresh	Force sync with Cursor API
c	Reconfigure	Re-run setup wizard

The dashboard polls every 5 seconds. Scroll through agents with arrow keys, view full agent messages with scrollable detail view.

Install

Run directly with npx (nothing to install):

npx agents-control-tower

Or install globally for a shorter command:

npm install -g agents-control-tower
control-tower

Both agents-control-tower and control-tower work after global install.

First run asks for your Cursor API key. Grab one from cursor.com/dashboard - Integrations. Saved to ~/.agents-control-tower/config.json.

Or pass it as an env var:

CURSOR_API_KEY=sk-... control-tower

How It Works

Source	What	How
Cursor Cloud API	List, launch, stop, delete agents. Read conversations	REST, polled every 5s
Cursor Hooks (coming)	Local IDE sessions, file edits, shell commands	File-based event stream

graph LR
    A[Cursor Cloud API] -->|poll 5s| B[State Store]
    C[Cursor Hooks] -->|file watcher| B
    B --> D[Ink TUI]

Tech Stack

	TUI framework
	Type safety
	Runtime
	Bundler
	Tests

Screens

Launch wizard - 3 steps: pick repo (with fuzzy filter), write the task prompt, select model and launch.

Agent detail - repo, branch, PR link, the prompt you gave it, and the full agent response with scroll.

Follow-up - send new instructions to a running agent without leaving the terminal.

Stop / Delete - inline confirmation. Press s or d, then y.

Keyboard Map

 DASHBOARD                          DETAIL VIEW
 ──────────────────────────         ──────────────────────────
 n         launch new agent         esc       back to dashboard
 ↑ / k     move up                  f         send follow-up
 ↓ / j     move down                s         stop agent
 enter     open detail              d         delete agent
 s         stop selected            o         open PR / URL
 d         delete selected          ↑↓        scroll message
 r         force refresh
 q         quit                    LAUNCH FLOW
                                    ──────────────────────────
 GLOBAL                             ↑↓        navigate options
 ──────────────────────────         /         filter repos
 ctrl+c    quit immediately         enter     select / confirm
 c         reconfigure              esc       cancel / go back

Contributing

Contributions welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup.

Author

If this helped you, star the repo, open an issue if something breaks.

License

MIT © Ofer Shapira