Heard - Give Claude Code and Codex a voice

@croft_benjamin yes we have different modes, you can pick between companion which is the more detailed or focus mode - which only interrupts you when input is needed!

@huisong_li thanks Huisong!

@rivendell_chorro right now you can adjust level of details and when it speaks. is that what you're referring to?

@carter_garcia thanks! attribution comes from the folder path and context building over time - Heard reads where each agent is working and maps it to a feature or directory. so "same task" becomes concrete: agents in the same folder are treated as working the same area, and it can roll their updates together instead of narrating each thread on its own.

overlap is handled at the speaking layer. updates queue rather than colliding, so you get them one at a time with the voice telling you which agent each came from - no two things talking at once. and when several are churning in the same feature, you hear a rolled-up "where this area stands" rather than a play-by-play from each.

curious does your same-task setup mean agents in one folder, or spread across different parts of the repo?

@dylan_russell yes you can! you can only do that in Heard Power right now: https://heard.dev/power code: friendsofheard

you can be completely hands off, the desktop app is only for viewing and settings

@vespertine_dallarosa in long sessions it can give you summaries continuously or only when needed depending on your settings!

@flora_kendall that's the core of it. hard signals always come through - permission prompts, failures, a run finishing - but everything else gets weighed against what you've already heard this session, so it's not pinging you on every step.

and yeah, configurable. there's a verbosity dial from full commentary down to errors-only, per agent, so a chatty one can run loud and a background one near-silent.

@daris_esteban thanks! it's light. Heard isn't polling or scanning your machine - it reads the output stream the agent already produces, so the monitoring itself is close to free. the only real cost is the summarization pass, and local TTS if you run voices on-device rather than through the cloud.

running several agents at once doesn't multiply that much, since the heavy part is per-event, not per-agent. haven't seen it get in the way of the actual agents doing work.

@jazzlyn_amspoker we actually made this happen in a previous version and decided it was too messy. however, might bring that back as a setting that people can try with!

@theo_eli i hated reading through 10 terminal windows to catch up on what each one is doing, and I hated how verbose some of these LLMs are, they don't need to be that!