Voro
An attention based session manager for AI-assisted development across many projects. Voro tracks tasks per project, weights each project by how much it matters today, and answers one question: where should your attention go right now?
A single next-action queue drives everything: questions, reviews, and proposals that need a human first, then the highest-scoring ready tasks across all projects — each body written as a prompt, ready to dispatch to a coding agent.
Status: early development. The cockpit, CLI, and dispatch loop work end-to-end. Expect churn.
Install
Voro is Unix-only — Linux and macOS. It installs a single binary, voro, that is
both the TUI cockpit (run with no arguments) and the CLI (voro <verb>).
The quickest path is the prebuilt shell installer, which downloads the right
binary for your platform and drops it in Cargo's bin directory (~/.cargo/bin):
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Prefer to place the binary yourself? Each GitHub
Release also carries tarballs —
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu for Linux and aarch64-apple-darwin for Apple Silicon
macOS — alongside their checksums. Download one, extract it, and put voro on
your PATH.
To build and install from source instead:
Quickstart
Voro is driven from its TUI cockpit. Launch it by running voro with no
arguments:
The cockpit has three screens — Cockpit (the next-action queue), Tasks
(every task), and Projects. tab cycles between them, j/k move the
selection, and the footer always shows the keys that apply to what you have
selected. The walkthrough below drives one task from nothing to a reviewed diff.
1. Register a project. Go to the Projects screen (tab to it) and press a
to add one — Voro asks for a name and a path. Press 0–5 on a project to set
its weight: the higher the weight, the harder that project's tasks pull toward the
top of the queue.
2. Create a task. From the Cockpit or Tasks screen, press n to write the
task body in your $EDITOR, or N to launch a planning session — an
agent-assisted flow that drafts the body for you. Either way, the body you end
up with is the prompt the dispatched agent receives, so it is worth writing
like one.
3. Triage it into the queue. A newly created task arrives as a proposal.
Select it in the queue and press enter — the footer reads ⏎ triage — to accept
it into ready work. The queue always floats items that need you first (a
question shows ⏎ answer, a finished task shows ⏎ review) above the
highest-scoring ready tasks.
4. Dispatch it to an agent. Select a ready task and press d to hand it to
the default coding agent, or D to choose which agent. Voro launches a headless
session; the agent works against the task body and reports back through the
return-path verbs (voro ask / voro done / voro propose), which are wired up
per docs/agent-integration.md. Those verbs are the
agent's interface, not yours.
5. Review what lands. When the agent calls done, the task moves to
review and rises to the top of the queue. Press o to open its checkout in a
viewer, or g to open its pull request (creating it when the project reviews
through GitHub). With the diff in front of you, press enter (⏎ review) to
accept or reject the work; rejecting with a note re-dispatches the agent to
address it.
Other keys worth knowing on a selected task: s change state, x the score
breakdown, h its history, e edit, l the session log, and q to quit.
Design
The full design lives in docs/DESIGN.md — concepts, schema,
task state machine, scoring, and dispatch semantics. Agent contributors should
read CLAUDE.md first.
Building
Rust workspace: voro-core (store, scheduler) and voro (ratatui TUI).
Dispatching to agents
Voro dispatches a task by running a shell command template per agent, and ships
with built-in claude and codex agents, so with one of those on your PATH a
fresh install dispatches with no configuration: voro dispatch <task-id> (or the
dispatch key in the TUI) launches a headless session on a ready task. The agent
reports back through the return-path verbs (voro ask/done/propose), and its work
lands in review where voro open or voro pr puts the diff in front of you.
To extend or override the built-in agents and viewers, layer a
~/.config/voro/voro.toml on top (voro agent init writes a skeleton). The
dispatch semantics, the review action, and the voro.toml format are covered in
docs/DESIGN.md §8; the CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md return-path
snippet and the Claude Code hooks configuration are in
docs/agent-integration.md.
License
Licensed under either of Apache License 2.0 or MIT license at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this work shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.