Poirot Update: Visual Sub-Agent Builder and Hooks Manager
I’ve been deep in the trenches with Claude Code lately, and while the CLI is great, managing configurations manually was starting to slow me down.
So I spent the rest of the week upgrading Poirot to handle the messy parts for me.
Three things I really needed (and just shipped):
Instead of writing JSON to create a new agent, I can now just duplicate the built-in ones (like “Plan” or “Bash”), tweak the prompts, and assign tools visually. Much faster to experiment with custom workflows.
I was tired of hand-editing settings.json every time I wanted to add a new event hook. Now I can browse all 18 event types and configure them without worrying about syntax errors.
We’ve had Cmd+K universal search from day one, now there are several more shortcuts to make the usage more fluid.
It’s free, open-source, and offline, built for Mac. Just a tool I’m building to make my own dev loop tighter.