hogli: one CLI for two drivers (our engineers and their agents)

The PostHog DevEx team has been building out “hogli”, a Python-based CLI that both our engineers and our coding agents drive the same way. PostHog’s dev stack is about 20+ processes and around the same amount of containers. It’s too RAM-hungry to easily run twice on a laptop, so we set up disposable remote boxes (using Coder.com) that hogli can drive and manage. An engineer (or an agent) can get a working stack in minutes, together with a live URL for clicking around. hogli devbox:task hands Claude Code its own box, hogli up -d runs the process manager (phrocs, our custom version of mprocs) detached behind a JSON socket, and a small MCP server on that socket lets the agent read process status, grep logs, and restart processes without a terminal. I’ll demo both drivers live on a running box: the detached stack and its socket, then I break a process and watch the agent read the logs, find the cause, and bring it back.