Week of April 14: VS Code extension, Hermes LLM support, team features, and ci-channel

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Big week for Codev! Here's what's been happening.

VS Code Extension (landing soon)

@amrmelsayed has been building a VS Code extension for Agent Farm. It's a thin client over Tower's existing API, bringing native terminals, a unified Codev sidebar, Command Palette integration, and review comment tooling directly into the IDE. No more context-switching to the browser dashboard.

The PR is up and should be merging any hour now. Look for it in the next release.

Hermes LLM support

@younes added support for the Hermes LLM as a consultation target in consult. This gives you another model perspective when reviewing specs, plans, and implementations. Note: Hermes is available through consult — it's not usable as an agent harness.

Team features: breaking the one-PR-one-builder assumption

Up until now, Codev assumed one builder per PR. We've been working on breaking that assumption — for example, you can now ask another team member to review a spec before you start implementing it. This opens up more collaborative workflows where multiple agents can contribute to different phases of the same project.

New tool: ci-channel

We've released ci-channel, a new independent Claude Code channel plugin for real-time CI/CD notifications. It supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Gitea, and pushes failure alerts directly into your Claude Code session so your architect can react immediately.

It's Codev-aware too — it will edit your .codev/config.json to configure CI channels automatically.

Check it out: https://github.com/cluesmith/ci-channel

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As always, feedback and ideas welcome!