GitHub - rbren/personal-ai-devbox

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Personal AI Development Environment

If you're the kind of person that likes tweaking your dotfiles, your tmux config, your vim setup, your VS Code plugins--this is maybe the most fun you'll ever have building something. It's the first time I've felt a sustained flow state while coding with AI.

The goal is to create a personalized AI-powered development environment. Something that works the way you want it to.

The setup described here encourages live coding: you modify the interface while you're using it. This can get a little funky--you may need to drop back down to the command line if you break things too badly. But the live feedback loop is addictive.

conversations

This project is released as Open Prompt, rather than Open Source. There are a few reasons:

  • You'll have more fun this way
  • My code is hyper-tailored to my own needs
  • and it's vibecoded mess that happens to mostly work

You don't want my vibecoded mess. You want your vibecoded mess, whose intricacies and quirks and powers only you know.


You can start by giving this README to the coding agent of your choice. Just paste the URL and hit go I guess.

It'll probably do something like:

  • Read AGENTS.md
  • Read architecture.md
  • Send out subagents for each of the subpages
  • Make you a fully semi probably not yet functional but very ambitious AI-powered development environment

You can wiggum it from there.


What's really fun is that once the app is semi-functional, you can live-code it while you're using it. You can just say "reskin to 1990s hacker style" and watch it morph in real time.

I've tried to architect things to make this easier: all the pages run as separate apps, so you can muck around with one part without breaking everything.

If you're a human you should also read MANUAL.md and learn about a few things you'll have to do by hand. And security. Please think of the security. In case you think security doesn't really matter, here's me catching the agent backdooring its way into the app so it could take the screenshots below:

Screenshot 2026-02-23 at 10 53 34 PM

good luck have fun

Features

Code

Chat UI for creating and streaming agent conversations using the OpenHands SDK. Includes a control bar for tuning agent behavior (planning depth, verification, git strategy), a resizable git status panel, and support for subagent delegation.

code

Vibe

Chat-first vibecoding interface for rapid prototyping. The agent builds HTML/CSS/JS artifacts that render live in a preview pane next to the chat. Uses its own agent-server instance and artifact storage.

vibe

Kanban

Kanban board of conversations organized by project and execution status.

kanban

HUD

Draggable card dashboard for monitoring live conversations in real time.

hud

LLM

Settings page for choosing an LLM provider, model, and API key.

Secrets

Key-value secret store injected into new conversations.

secrets

Projects

Git repository overview for all projects under ~/git/.

projects

Scheduled

Cron-based scheduler that launches agent conversations on a timer.

scheduled

Skills

CRUD editor for agent skills stored in the agentskills.io format.

skills

MCP

Configuration editor for Model Context Protocol servers.

mcp

SMS

Twilio webhook that creates agent conversations from incoming text messages.

sms

Status

Live system monitor showing CPU, memory, disk, processes, and network.

status

Terminal

Multi-tab browser terminal backed by real PTY processes.

terminal

Files

File browser and text editor for the server's filesystem.

files

Logs

Log viewer with live tailing and syntax highlighting.

logs