AgentDeck

AgentDeck is optimized for people running several coding agents at once who want glanceable status and one-hand control. It is a desk device, not a portable one: USB-C only, no battery, no radio.

• Design notes
• Changelog
• Licensing

Six agent keys light up with each agent's live state (idle, thinking, working, blocked, done). Press one to focus that session. The command keys accept or reject work, the dial scrubs and confirms, and the joystick navigates. A host bridge maps Claude Code hooks to the key colours, so the board answers "which of my sessions needs me?" without alt-tabbing.

This is a Codex Micro-inspired project. The concept follows OpenAI and Work Louder's Codex Micro, and the control layout deliberately echoes it. It is an independent build, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced with OpenAI, Work Louder, or Anthropic. The board, firmware and enclosure are original work; no Codex Micro files were used. Some material in this repository (vendor footprints, datasheets, reference photographs, third-party cap and knob models) is not ours to license. See LICENSING.md.

Renders

Changelog

Hardware revisions are tracked in the changelog. Because the board is text-based KiCad, every fabricated revision maps to a tagged commit, and a physical board can be traced back to the exact design it was made from.

Versions

What comes next (v1.0 bring-up, the v1.1 depth release, and what is deliberately parked) is in the roadmap.

Status

Nothing has been manufactured yet, so none of it is hardware-verified.

Packages

The repository is organized by discipline. Each directory is self-contained and has its own README where the workflow needs explaining.

Hardware

The board is a 95 x 95 mm 4-layer PCB, drawn in KiCad 10.

• 13 Kailh Choc hot-swap keys on an 18.7 x 19.3 mm grid, each with a reverse-mount SK6812MINI-E RGB LED shining up through the cap
• EC11 rotary encoder (top left) and Alps SKQUCAA010 5-way joystick (top right)
• RP2040 with W25Q128 16 MB flash, USB-C, BOOT button, SWD pads
• Everything is wired directly to GPIO. There is no key matrix, so there is no ghosting to debounce around
• All SMD parts sit on the back of the board and hang down into the case tray; only the switches, encoder and joystick face up

Keycaps carry simple engraved-style icons (dice for the six agent keys, thumbs up and down for accept and reject) rendered from Lucide glyphs. The encoder and joystick caps are white.

Enclosure

Two printed parts plus four printed cover caps. The PCB drops into the bottom tray component-side down, the lid closes over it, and four screws clamp the stack into brass inserts.

Print v1/enclosure/case-bottom.stl, v1/enclosure/case-top-lid.stl, and four of v1/enclosure/case-cover-plug.stl. The case is generated, not sculpted: edit the parameters in v1/enclosure/src/generate_case.py and re-run it to get new STLs.

Firmware

Copy v1/firmware/boot.py and code.py onto a CIRCUITPY drive running CircuitPython 9.x, with adafruit_hid and neopixel in lib/. An Arduino port with identical behaviour lives in v1/firmware/arduino/ if you prefer a compiled build.

The command keys send Ctrl+Alt chords, the dial sets reasoning effort, and the joystick navigates. v1/firmware/README.md has the full control table, colour legend, pin map, and the three constants to confirm on first hardware.

Development

• Board edits: open v1/hardware/AgentDeck.kicad_pcb in KiCad 10. After copper changes, refill zones before running DRC, then regenerate v1/fab/ with kicad-cli.
• Case edits: run v1/enclosure/src/generate_case.py in Blender to rebuild the STLs from parameters.
• Renders: the assembly lives in v1/enclosure/AgentDeck-v2-assembled.blend; reference renders are committed under docs/img/.
• Derived files (board 3D exports, .dsn/.ses routing intermediates, autorouter logs) are gitignored and regenerate from the board.

Licence

Multi-licensed, as is normal for open hardware. See LICENSING.md.

Vendor footprints, datasheets and reference images keep their original terms. Keycap icons are from Lucide (ISC).